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The provincial government has rolled back speed limits on certain sections of B.C. highways. UBC experts are available to comment.
Nov 6, 2018
American voters head to the polls today for the midterm elections.
The Vancouver Sun reported that Nancy Hermiston’s UBC Opera Ensemble has begun its production of the opera Silent Night. The performance depicts the 1914 Christmas Day truce in the trenches. The article […]
Does having a pet dog in the home contribute to a baby’s healthy development?
Elizabeth Dunn, a UBC psychologist, spoke to NPR about a study that found a flow-inducing game of Tetris could help people waiting to hear about life-altering news. Dunn, who wasn’t involved […]
Work by Benjamin Freeman, a UBC ecologist, was featured on NPR. Freeman and colleagues examined how birdlife on mountains has been impacted by climate change.
Various media outlets reported on pregnancy research from UBC and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “The optimal spacing window that we found was one to two years […]
Paul Quirk, a UBC political science professor, spoke to Express U.K. for an article about the U.S. midterm elections. “The caravan [of migrants] is now overshadowed as a news story […]
MSN published a Gizmodo article on UBC research about the origins of chocolate. Researchers from UBC and several other institutions found evidence of chocolate use among the Mayo-Chinchipe people between […]
Cosmos Magazine interviewed Mary Berbee, a UBC mycologist, about the honey fungus Armillaria solidipes. Berbeethe estimates the fungus has been on the planet for about one billion years, predating the first land […]
Inverse published an op-ed from The Conversation about daylight saving time and mentioned research from a UBC professor. Maurice Levi, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, co-wrote […]
Dezeen featured a wooden bench built by UBC students using computation tools. The Wander Wood Pavilion was built during the Robot Made: Large-Scale Robotic Timber Fabrication in Architecture student workshop, […]
Business in Vancouver mentioned Daniel Pauly, a fisheries scientist at UBC, in an article about a film called The Dark Side of the Fish Seal MSC. The article reported Pauly criticizes […]
Yves Tiberghien, director emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research at UBC, was interviewed by Radio Canada about the trade war between China and the United States. He discussed the […]
The Tyee interviewed Sheryl Lightfoot, an Indigenous studies and political science professor at UBC, for an article about the proportional electoral system in New Zealand. She said the system has […]
The Georgia Straight highlighted A & K Robotics, a company that builds autonomous vehicles for indoor environments. The team was founded by UBC graduates and is now working on mobility […]
Harvard Business Review published an op-ed co-written by Jennifer Berdahl, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, about masculinity contests. “Masculinity contests are most prevalent — and vicious […]
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The Vancouver Sun published an op-ed by Pamela Ratner, vice-provost and associate vice-president at UBC, about UBC admissions. The letter was in response to a recent op-ed written by a […]
The Canadian Press interviewed Harold Eyster, a PhD candidate studying biodiversity and nature conservation at UBC, for an article about a rare duck seen in Burnaby. Eyster said it’s likely […]
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