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The United Way spelling bee took place Thursday – ahead of the fundraising event, we hit the pavement to test out UBC’s spelling skills.
Oct 12, 2018
Several media outlets reported on the pipeline explosion in northern B.C. in relation to UBC’s Vancouver campus. CBC News said that several hours after the university issued an emergency warning, […]
Several media outlets reported on UBC research that found the number of fatal crashes on some B.C. roads has doubled since the speed limit was increased. CBC quoted Gord Lovegrove, […]
CTV News published an article on Canadian universities’ approach to cannabis legalization. Many are banning cannabis use which advocates say is too restrictive. Hubert Lai, university counsel at UBC, said […]
UBC was mentioned in a Boston Globe article about insects and climate change. A Harvard study in conjunction with UBC and the University of Vermont looked at plant specimens dating […]
The Vancouver Sun and The Province published an article about a report by UBC and the Union Gospel Mission on the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver. A related article on […]
The potential project to run the SkyTrain to UBC was mentioned in an article in the Vancouver Sun. It was one of eight hot topics put to the Vancouver mayoral […]
The Economist mentioned Francesco Trebbi, a professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC, in an article about potential world recession and the part politicians play. Trebbi noted in […]
The Globe and Mail published an op-ed by Michael Byers, a professor and Canada Research Chair in global politics and international law at UBC, about the Soyuz rocket failure in […]
M.V. Ramana, a professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC, was quoted in a Hindustan Times article about […]
The Vancouver Sun and The Province reported on a wave of bike theft at UBC since the start of the school year. Rob McCloy, executive director of campus security said […]
Maclean’s published an article about the differing cannabis policies at Canadian universities, and where each university ranks in terms of cannabis use. UBC students came in at 40.5 per cent […]
Global News reported that according to new research from UBC Okanagan, many strains of cannabis have almost identical levels of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol. Chemistry professor Susan Murch said their research […]
Global published an article about Canadians pledging to buy only Canadian dairy products since the USMCA trade deal which will see U.S. dairy farmers get access to about 3.5 per […]
Vancouver is Awesome reported that UBC was ranked number 61 in Reuters’ 2018 list of the world’s most innovative universities. The list “identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the […]
North Shore News published an article about UBC student Kristian Yli-Hietanen who is on a winning streak with the UBC Thunderbirds soccer team. Yli-Hietanen scored four goals in a 7-0 […]
An op-ed appeared in the Vancouver Sun by Fabio Rossi, a professor of medical genetics at UBC and scientific director of BCRegMed, and Judy Illes, the Canada Research Chair in […]
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An article appeared on Inverse about recent research from UBC that found humans are hardwired to be lazy. Matthieu Boisgontier, a postdoctoral researcher at UBC, said that the study is […]
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