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Psychology Today published an op-ed about happiness research co-written by Elizabeth Dunn, a UBC psychologist.
Aug 24, 2018
News 1130 interviewed Heidi Tworek, a UBC professor of international history, about protecting against foreign intervention in Canadian elections. She discussed the concerning role of social media.
Andrew Parr, UBC’s managing director of student housing and hospitality services, spoke to News 1130 for an article about housing for university students. He said the university has added 3,500 […]
A Vancouver Sun article about Saudi Arabian doctors training in B.C. quoted Roger Wong, executive associate dean of education for the UBC faculty of medicine. A statement from Wong read […]
Angela Stevenson, a UBC researcher, was interviewed by National Geographic about her work on crinoids, a group of marine creatures that includes feather stars. She discussed the feather stars’ ability […]
Newsweek quoted Andrew Trites, the director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at UBC, for a story about an interaction between dolphins and a humpback whale calf in danger of […]
Business in Vancouver mentioned work by Greg Dipple, a UBC professor in the department of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences. Dipple wrote about the possibility of using crushed mine waste […]
Newsweek highlighted UBC civil engineering researchers who discovered a method to convert waste oil into energy. The scientists heated the waste before adding hydrogen peroxide to break up the organic […]
Mirror U.K. reported on a study about light-matter interactions involving a researcher from UBC’s Okanagan campus. Kenneth Chau, a UBCO professor of engineering, was a co-author on the research and […]
Castanet highlighted work by Christine Schreyer, an anthropology professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, who created a new language for a film. She specializes in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization.
New Atlas mentioned UBC research in a story about medical uses for blue clay. UBC scientists have had success in using Kisameet clay to kill bacteria.
UBC research found that gut bacteria could be used to change blood types A and B into the more universal form of blood type O, Daily Hive reported. Stephen Withers, […]
Psychology Today published an op-ed about happiness research co-written by Elizabeth Dunn, a UBC psychologist. “On average, people were happier after spending $40 on a time-saving purchase than after spending […]
Quartz reported on a study involving UBC researchers that found reducing air pollution would be the equivalent of eradicating breast and lung cancer in terms of life spans. The study […]
Work by Zach Walsh, a UBC clinical psychologist and cannabis researcher, was featured in a London Free Press story about marijuana research in Canada. Walsh is launching a long-term study […]
The Globe and Mail reported on a study co-authored by Kevin Milligan of UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics. The study found Canada’s highest-earning men are outliving the lowest-earning men by eight years.
The Globe and Mail interviewed Margot Young, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal of […]
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