• Canadians wary of new technologies that allow employers to spy on staff

    Canadians wary of new technologies that allow employers to spy on staff

    Emerging surveillance technologies designed to help employers monitor the productivity of staff are largely viewed by the public as unreasonable and intrusive, according to new UBC research. Resistance was especially high for those technologies that are difficult to connect directly to performance measurement.

  • Why tuition is not being reduced at UBC

    Why tuition is not being reduced at UBC

    Tuition supports UBC by funding the university’s core expenses, including faculty and staff salaries, student financial aid, student services, libraries, information technology, infrastructure investment, and administration across both campuses.

  • Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers

    Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers

    A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars’s surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new UBC research.