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Ainsley Carry has been appointed as the new Vice-President, Students on the UBC Vancouver campus. He will formally begin the role on April 1, 2019.
Dec 4, 2018
New research suggests millennial men are more selfless, health-conscious and socially engaged than previous generations, reports the Daily Mail. The study, led by UBC nursing professor John Oliffe with co-author […]
Times Now of India and other media outlets highlighted a UBC review that found that most sleep routines are effective in helping kids sleep better and more consistently. The authors, […]
Sputnik reported on research by UBC zoologists that showed a newly identified wasp species can “hijack” the nervous systems of spiders and force them to abandon their colonies and protect […]
Don McKenzie, a medicine and kinesiology professor at UBC, and Susan Harris, a UBC physical therapist, were featured in a WBUR story on the connection between exercise and lymphedema. Harris’s […]
The Conversation published an op-ed by UBC academics Erez Aloni, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and Adam Vanzella-Yang, a PhD student. Aloni and Vanzella-Yang discussed […]
Professor M.V. Ramana wrote an article in Scientific American about whether nuclear power companies should be subsidized in order to help reduce carbon emissions. Ramana is the Simons Chair in […]
A UBC study published earlier this year found that dairy calves have distinct personality traits from a very young age. Now researchers have followed up that study by examining those same calves at four months of age, to find out how their personality traits govern their reactions to real-world situations.
ET Canada previewed “Orangutan Jungle School,” a new TV series that follows the world’s biggest orangutan rehabilitation centre in Borneo. The series features the work of Jacqueline Sunderland-Groves, an adviser […]
A Global story on CBD quoted expert M-J Milloy. Milloy, the Canopy Growth professor in cannabis science at UBC, said CBD does not make people high and it actually helps […]
The Province mentioned Jenna Valleriani, a postdoctoral fellow at UBC and co-founder of Canadian Women in Cannabis, in an article about women in the cannabis industry.
CBC reported on COP24, the climate conference that started this week in Katowice, Poland, and mentioned Marina Melanidis, one of the members of the B.C. youth delegation. Melanidis is studying […]
Daily Hive highlighted the UBC Polar Bear Swim. More than students took part in the annual event on Nov. 30.
Huffington Post spoke to David Snadden, a professor at UBC and Rural Doctors’ UBC chair, about telemedicine in rural communities. He said that while telemedicine can be invaluable, “I personally […]
Maclean’s spoke to Bonnie Norton, professor and distinguished university scholar in UBC’s department of language and literacy education, in an article on advice for new students. “We need to make […]
Times Colonist published an op-ed by Andrew David Irvine, a professor of philosophy at UBC’s Okanagan campus, about electoral reform.
Castanet reported on researchers from UBC’s Okanagan campus who have developed a diagnostic tool that can detect bacterial infections. Mohammad Zarifi, an assistant professor at UBCO’s school of engineering, said the […]
The Tyee published an op-ed by Patrick Condon, a professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UBC. Condon wrote about the building of condos along the Broadway […]
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