Business, Law and Society

UBC and Fraunhofer Society enter $4.9 million clean energy partnership

A $4.9-million research partnership between UBC and Germany’s Fraunhofer Society – Europe’s largest applied research institution – will advance clean energy research in five critical areas, from wind energy to zero emission vehicles.

Jan 15, 2013

For power and status, dominance and skill trump likability

Finding the next Barack Obama or Warren Buffett might be as simple as looking at who attracts the most eyes in a crowd, a new UBC study finds.

Dec 19, 2012

Water efficient food exports: less beef, more crops

Planetary water shortages and the demand for more food should lead to changes in farming and exports.

Dec 18, 2012 - by Hans Schreier, Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Revolutionizing road design

New technologies from UBC’s Okanagan campus are tackling the high cost of building highways.

Dec 18, 2012 - by Warren Hare, Assistant Professor, Mathematics

A new generation of solar power, Part 1.

Organic solar cells are the basis of a new class of materials and may be the key to abundant, accessible solar energy.

Dec 18, 2012 - by Sarah Burke, Assistant Professor, Depts. of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry