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Fighting crime one tweet at a time

Fighting crime one tweet at a time

Researcher studies how police use Twitter to protect and serve.

Jun 18, 2014

Play it forward

Play it forward

UBC students train athletes for the Special Olympics Canada 2014 Summer Games but say the benefits go both ways

Jun 17, 2014

First Nations PhD grads take knowledge back to community

First Nations PhD grads take knowledge back to community

UBC’s Okanagan campus celebrates its first two Aboriginal PhD graduates this week.

Jun 6, 2014

2014 graduate snapshots from UBC’s Okanagan campus

2014 graduate snapshots from UBC’s Okanagan campus

More than 1,600 students receive their degrees from UBC’s Okanagan campus in spring 2014. They each have stories of personal and academic achievements, and carry many varied ambitions for life. Here are three of their stories.

Jun 3, 2014

Star power

Star power

Graduating student Eric Koch has his sights on understanding the life and death of interstellar bodies.

Jun 3, 2014 - by Deanna Roberts

Tool predicts if the air in your home can make you sick

Tool predicts if the air in your home can make you sick

A UBC Okanagan graduate engineering student has developed an indoor environmental assessment tool that has the potential to reduce respiratory illness from household mold and dampness.

Jun 2, 2014

Airport mural highlights UBC Okanagan stories

Airport mural highlights UBC Okanagan stories

80-foot-long installation greets 750,000 annual visitors arriving at YLW

May 8, 2014

The customer isn’t always right

The customer isn’t always right

Study looks at what happens when customers snap at call centre workers.

May 6, 2014 - by Jody Jacob

The Northern Gateway pipeline thought map

The Northern Gateway pipeline thought map

UBC’s Andrew Barton creates an interactive map where anyone can share their thoughts on the project.

Apr 22, 2014

Celebrating a world of books

Celebrating a world of books

With World Book Day coming up on April 23, book lover and author Sonnet L’Abbé of UBC’s Okanagan campus tells us why reading is one of life’s most basic pleasures.

Apr 22, 2014

Want to get happy? Science tells you how

Want to get happy? Science tells you how

Ahead of International Happiness Day on March 20, UBC’s Mark Holder sheds light on what you can learn from science about being content.

Mar 17, 2014

Selfies are your personal brand

Selfies are your personal brand

Selfies reflect a new culture of living out loud, but there can be a dark side, says a UBC researcher.

Mar 3, 2014

Small Canadian communities not ready for climate change: study

Small Canadian communities not ready for climate change: study

Dramatic differences exist in how Canadian communities are preparing for the effects of climate change, a new study finds.

Feb 3, 2014

Lighter, stronger, safer

Lighter, stronger, safer

3-D X-ray technology could pave the way for new a generation of defect-free, lightweight cars and planes

Jan 9, 2014 - by Paul Marck

$1.8M boost for cutting edge research from CFI

$1.8M boost for cutting edge research from CFI

Eighteen UBC projects have received more than $1.8 million in combined funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund.

Jan 8, 2014

Social news site Reddit explodes with praise for first-year UBC student

Social news site Reddit explodes with praise for first-year UBC student

UBC Okanagan student Eric Huang earned raves on Reddit, the wildly popular news-sharing site, for his ability to explain the intricacies of computer programming.

Dec 2, 2013

The search for intelligent plant life

The search for intelligent plant life

UBC Okanagan’s Susan Murch is among a group of scientists that believe plants may be more like animals than we think.

Nov 26, 2013

JFK’s mixed legacy continues to inspire Canadians 50 years later

JFK’s mixed legacy continues to inspire Canadians 50 years later

As the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches on Nov. 22, UBC Prof. Carl Cavanagh Hodge reflects on JFK’s brief, charismatic presidency.

Nov 20, 2013

Learning lessons of a lifetime

Learning lessons of a lifetime

For her work since 2009 leading fourth-year nursing students to Ghana for clinical practicums, Muriel Kranabetter of UBC’s Okanagan was honoured in a special tribal ceremony in the remote village of Chanshegu.

Nov 18, 2013

Grading environmental watchdogs

Grading environmental watchdogs

Are current environmental assessment processes protecting Canadians? UBC’s Kevin Hanna says B.C.’s system gets would get a “D” in his report card.

Nov 13, 2013

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