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CBC News reported on a small group who gathered in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday to support Loujain al-Hathloul, a UBC alumna who has been detained in […]
Sep 24, 2018
The annual Harvest Feastival at UBC was featured on CBC’s Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. Jennifer Chen visited the event and reported on the harvest, crops, and cooking fresh produce. […]
Various media outlets reported on the study by Matthieu Boisgontier about why we avoid exercise, despite knowing it is good for us. Boisgontier, a postdoctoral researcher at UBC, found that […]
UBC experts were quoted in the media about the Trans Mountain pipeline project. BNN Bloomberg cited Gordon Christie, a UBC law professor specializing in Indigenous law, about consultation. “There seems […]
A CTV story on changing attitudes towards marijuana quoted Mark Haden, an adjunct population professor at UBC. Haden said social norms have changed dramatically over the past hundred years and […]
Marianne McTavish, associate dean of teacher education and a senior instructor with emergent learning and literacy in the department of language and literacy at UBC, was quoted in Today’s Parent […]
The Vancouver Sun published an article about Michael Smith, a former UBC faculty member who became B.C.’s first Nobel Prize winner 25 years ago. Smith’s research led to scientists being […]
CBC’s Radio Canada International reported on the new exhibit at UBC’s Pacific Museum of the Earth. The 13-metre-long creature is a cast skeleton of an Elasmosaur which lived in coastal […]
An article on CTV Vancouver discussed the medical benefits of cannabis. While some producers and many users are claiming they have had good results, many doctors recommend using caution. Emily […]
CBC interviewed UBC tansportation safety expert Gord Lovegrove for a story on a derailed train in northern Manitoba. He said the two trapped rail workers probably had no way to […]
A Vancouver Sun story on duplexes quoted UBC professor Tom Davidoff. He said that rising land values, if accompanied by more density are in fact a positive thing. The story […]
The Globe and Mail mentioned a UBC law student, Shawn Zhang, in an article about the Chinese authorities’ incarceration of hundreds of thousands of people in “political re-education” camps. Zhang […]
Donald Baker, a professor of Korean history at UBC, was quoted in a National Post story on prospects for peace between North and South Korea. “When North Koreans go south […]
Gord Lovegrove, an associate professor at UBC Okanagan’s school of engineering, was quoted in an article in The Province about TransLink’s considerations of goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lovegrove […]
The Province and Calgary Herald published an article about the federal government providing a “carbon dividend” rebate to people in provinces where it has imposed a carbon tax. The article […]
Ming Pao Canada reported on the partnership between Rogers Communications Inc. and UBC to build a campus hub for 5G innovation.
John Ries, senior associate dean at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, was quoted in Business in Vancouver about the effect of escalating trade tensions between Canada and U.S. on B.C. […]
An op-ed by three UBC academics was published in Salon and the National Post. Sameer H. Shah, Devyani Singh and Scott McKenzie discussed Trump’s approach to recent weather and climate-related […]
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The Times Colonist published an op-ed by E. Wayne Ross, a professor of education at UBC, about Canadians’ perception of private versus public schools.
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