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CBC interviewed Donald Stark, an allergist and professor at UBC’s faculty of medicine, about a hiker who was rescued following an allergic reaction to a wasp sting. Stark said often […]
Jul 26, 2018
NBC cited a 2016 UBC study for an article about the link between heat waves and bad economic circumstances. The study found that drought and heat waves stopped nearly a […]
CBC Vancouver reported on UBC students working to creating a robotic skin. Saquib Sarwar, a PhD candidate, said the artificial skin will “allow us to interact with robots in a […]
Various media outlets reported on a $6-million scholarship fund announced at UBC’s Okanagan campus that will give 400 graduate students $15,000 each. “It is enormous… it will allow us to […]
UBC’s Innocence Project was mentioned in a Vancouver Sun article about a man convicted of murder. Law students at UBC worked on the man’s case. The story also appeared in […]
The Vancouver Sun mentioned work by engineering students at UBC’s Okanagan campus in a story about a woman who died in a clothing donation bin. Students designed a cart that […]
Hindustan Times mentioned a 2016 paper co-authored by Siwan Anderson from UBC in a story about politics among a group of castes in India called Marathas. The paper showed advantages […]
The Vancouver Courier featured an event at UBC’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. People can learn about the albatross and its relatives with Ildiko Szabo, the museum’s assistant curator.
City Pages quoted Elizabeth Saewyc, a UBC researcher, for a story about depression among students who had experienced same-sex relationships in the 2000s. “Boys with same-sex partners had a higher […]
Stanley Coren, a professor emeritus in UBC’s department of psychology, was quoted in an Elite Daily article about dogs sensing people’s emotions. Coren explained the chemical similarities between dogs and […]
East Asia Forum published an op-ed about the importance of ethnic diversity co-written by Kai Ostwald, a professor at UBC’s school of public policy and global affairs and the department […]
BNN Bloomberg highlighted UBC researchers who developed a method to power solar cells with bacteria that can convert light to energy under low-light conditions. Vikram Yadav, a UBC professor in […]
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The Globe and Mail published an article about Canadian literature that mentioned former UBC creative writing professor Steven Galloway.
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