UBC’s summary of animals involved in research at the university in 2022 is now available.
Nov 28, 2023
We spoke to four experts including current and former COP delegates to ask what the world, and Canada, needs to see come out of the conference.
On Nov. 28, media are invited as four teams of faculty of land and food systems students engage in a six-legged culinary showdown.
Nov 27, 2023
The therapy aims to replace the insulin-producing beta cells that people with Type 1 diabetes lack.
The research findings could help wildlife managers develop strategies to help at-risk animals and pinpoint general traits that help animals survive.
Nov 22, 2023
Scott Ramsay, who graduates from UBC this month with a PhD in nursing, has been working to intervene in the lives of youth struggling in the same darkness of disability.
Media are invited to join climate experts as they share the pressing issues up for negotiation this year, including human health, adaptation measures, and the loss and damage fund.
Nov 21, 2023
Federal finance minister Chrystia Freeland is to deliver the government’s fall economic statement on Tuesday. UBC experts will be available to comment.
Nov 20, 2023
It’s nearly time to welcome the annual chaos, confusion, and calamitous clogging of roads known as snowfall in Vancouver.
Drs. Kayla King, Isla Myers-Smith, and Corey Stephenson have been appointed Canada Excellence Research Chairs at UBC.
Nov 16, 2023
The approach can support public health and safety by enabling swift identification of new substances, potentially saving lives and guiding timely clinical responses to drug-related emergencies.
Nov 15, 2023
UBC and UBCO math teachers who want to use their math skills for good have collaborated with climate scientists to bring the climate crisis into their classrooms.
Learn how it works and what this means for the future of construction.
Nov 14, 2023
The study shows that in B.C. alone, implementing pharmacogenomic testing could save the provincial public health system an estimated $956 million over 20 years.
Scientists, including those from UBC forestry, use genome sequencing to find out.
Nov 7, 2023
A new report by UBC, SFU and University of Ottawa researchers found the personal property rights of unhoused people in Canada are systematically undermined.
Nov 1, 2023
That’s in a high carbon emissions and low mitigation scenario, according to the study published today in Nature Climate Change.
Oct 30, 2023
UBC researchers share some gruesome parasites of nature, like worms that fill the entire gut of an insect to a fungus that grows from your nose to your brain.
The researchers at UBC’s faculty of forestry hope to validate the concept through future field tests and are enthusiastic about its potential.
Oct 26, 2023
A new soft sensor developed by UBC engineers and Honda researchers opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics.
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