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Sep 20, 2018
The Conversation published an op-ed co-written by by Amin Ghaziani, associate professor of sociology, about queer pop-ups – temporary gathering places which now play a role in LGBTQ/2S equality.
Rashid Sumaila, director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at UBC spoke to CBC Newfoundland and Labrador about fishing subsidies, their impacts […]
The Globe and Mail ran a story about Railtown, an area of Vancouver that appears to be undergoing a redevelopment boom. However, the efforts to make Railtown a design and […]
CBC reported on the announcement from Education Minister Rob Fleming that the government will fund another 37 French teacher education seats for the 2019-20 school year. The 37 seats will […]
Tom Davidoff, Associate Professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, was interviewed by Stephen Quinn on CBC’s Early Edition, discussing mass rezoning. The piece starts at the 1:41:15 mark.
The Daily Mail reported on UBC research into laziness. Researchers found that while society encourages people to be more physically active, they are actually becoming less so, in what they have […]
The Conversation published an op-ed about queer pop-ups – temporary gathering places which now play a role in LGBTQ/2S equality. The authors note that while traditional gaybourhoods are changing due […]
A UBC researcher was quoted in a New Scientist story about the lengths female dance flies will go to attract a mate. “The suggestion that females are using dishonest signals […]
The Province reported on the newest resident at UBC’s Earth Sciences Building: a 13-metre long skeletal cast of an Elasmosaurus – an ancient marine reptile. Although this particular example was […]
An article appeared in The Globe and Mail about a novel by Maureen Medved, an associate professor in the creative writing program at UBC. The novel, Black Star, is one […]
CBC’s Quirks and Quarks featured Johan Gilchrist, a PhD student in geophysics at UBC, who had the trip of a lifetime this summer when he experienced a volcanic eruption first-hand. […]
A team of researchers at UBC couldn’t go to Beijing – so they brought Beijing to Vancouver. The Air Pollution Exposure lab, featured on PBS ReInventors, is a plexiglass box […]
The Daily Hive carried a story about the various methods of consuming cannabis. In an interview earlier this year, Ian Mitchell, associate professor of emergency medicine at UBC, said that […]
UBC was mentioned in an article on CBC about an immersive theatre experience called The Intuition Project. The Calgary theatre troupe explores the idea of the sixth sense in the […]
The Squamish Chief mentioned a UBC survey which found that while most Sea to Sky students from Grades 4 to 7 are, on average, doing better than students in B.C., […]
An article in the Star Tribune about the performance of the Minnesota Wild hockey team mentioned a study by James Brander of UBC’s Sauder School of Business. The 2014 study published in […]
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