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The Vancouver Sun mentioned the UBC eSports Association in an article about a huge eSports tournament coming to Vancouver called The International Dota 2 Championship.
Aug 16, 2018
A Vox article about a gender discrimination lawsuit against Nike cited a study by sociologists at UBC and Indiana University. Researchers discovered that court-mandated bias training and educational efforts were […]
A Georgia Straight article about a beach cleanup in Vancouver mentioned a UBC study. The study found that cigarette waste accounts for up to 50 per cent of garbage found […]
An article on MSN about better investing cited UBC research. Researchers from UBC, York University and the University of Toronto found that the stock market’s returns are significantly below normal […]
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The Conversation published an op-ed co-written by two UBC academics about rethinking agriculture and conservation. “If people manage landscapes so they are shared between agriculture and nature conservation… it may […]
The Canadian Press quoted Margot Young, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, in an article about service refusals. She said retailers have a responsibility […]
B.C. declared a state of emergency Wednesday due to the ongoing wildfire situation. The state of emergency will be in place for 14 days, and may be extended or rescinded as necessary. UBC experts are available to discuss the wildfire situation in B.C., associated poor air quality and health risks.
Aug 15, 2018
The Daily Mail highlighted work by Marina Adshade, a UBC professor, about the availability of sex robots. “I predict their availability will give couples greater opportunity to define their own […]
Times Higher Education reported that UBC was ranked number 43 on a list of the top universities in the world featured in the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018.
Elite Daily reported on a study co-authored by Elizabeth Dunn, a UBC psychology professor, which examined the impacts of smartphone use. “We found out even moderate levels of phone use […]
CBC Radio’s Early Edition highlighted a study by UBC and B.C. Children’s Hospital that examined the effectiveness of a public education initiative on reducing cases of shaken baby syndrome. Ron […]
Michelle Stack, a professor in UBC’s faculty of education, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s On The Coast about France’s decision to ban cell phones from schools beginning in September. The […]
Four UBC academics signed an op-ed published on Wired about the future of artificial intelligence. David Poole, a computer science professor and director of the laboratory for computational intelligence at […]
Michael Byers, a political science professor at UBC, was quoted in a Vancouver Sun article about a Kamloops professor who was dismissed in connection with a paper he wrote. Byers […]
Margot Young, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, spoke to the Globe and Mail after Trinity Western University dropped a mandatory covenant forbidding sex outside heterosexual […]
The Canadian Press quoted Philip Edgcumbe, an MD-PhD student at UBC and a consultant on technological innovation in health care, for an article about survey that examined how technology is […]
Slate published an op-ed by Marina Adshade, a UBC professor, about sex robots. “We should expect that the proliferation of robots designed specifically for human sexual gratification means that sexbot-induced […]
A Georgia Straight article about controversial tweets from Conservative politician Maxime Bernier mentioned a book by Leonie Sandercock, a UBC planning professor. Bernier suggested that immigrants aren’t integrating into society. […]
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