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A year of surprise and discovery at UBC News

From eye-opening research about the values of today’s young men, to counterintuitive stats about violence between teenage boys and girls, UBC News readers showed an appetite for the unexpected this year.

Dec 18, 2018

Inclusive primary care improves people’s health, finds UBC-Western study

Inclusive primary care improves people’s health, finds UBC-Western study

Respectful, inclusive practices in primary care clinics can significantly improve the health of low-income, marginalized people who may have previously experienced trauma or discrimination, a new study from the University of British Columbia and Western University has found.

Dec 18, 2018

American sportswear traced to factories in Chinese internment camps

The Associated Press reported on the use of Chinese forced labour to make American sportswear. Earlier this year Shawn Zhang, a researcher at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, found […]

Dec 18, 2018

UBC student hopes to grow support for her ‘green roof’ bus shelter

Vancouver Courier reported on UBC students’ Tree Canopy project which hopes to build a bus shelter with environmental benefits. Tabinda Shah, an urban forestry student, is raising money by crowdfunding […]

Dec 18, 2018

NASA asteroid warning: Giant space rock barrelling on ‘Earth Close Approach’ Tonight

The Daily Express quoted Matija Cuk, an asteroid expert at UBC, in an article about an asteroid which passed by Earth on Monday. Speaking about an asteroid that erupted over the Russian […]

Dec 18, 2018

B.C.’s pot players: The caretaker

B.C. Business interviewed Bonnie Henry, a provincial health officer and clinical associate professor at UBC, in a series about the main players in the B.C. cannabis industry. “Businesses have a […]

Dec 18, 2018

U.S. and Canada condemn China’s actions

Wenran Jiang, a senior fellow at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research, was interviewed on CTV about relations between the U.S., Canada and China.

Dec 18, 2018

B.C. just scrapped the future of the gas-powered car

The Tyee quoted Sumeet Gulati, a professor in environmental and resource economics at UBC, in an article about the NDP’s policy that every new vehicle sold in B.C. will be […]

Dec 18, 2018

Tokelau headed for resource crisis – study

Radio New Zealand cited findings from UBC about the threat of climate change on the islands of Tokelau in the south Pacific. The study, conducted with the University of Western […]

Dec 18, 2018