As explored in a newly published paper, UBC researchers speculate that using “radio bursts” with unknown origins, they could determine the distance of cosmological bodies and shed light on a whole host of previously unknown information.
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This year, UBC’s iGEM team worked on creating a genetically modified Gilliamella apicola (a type of bacteria that lives in bees' intestines) that can help bees combat colony collapse disorder.
On the week of September 21, the Beaty Biodiversity museum, along with the Woodward library, TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and other teams within UBC were collaborating to promote science literacy in a national science literacy initiative.
“[When I was writing the piece] I was thinking about … the natural surroundings of UBC, and how I could possibly evoke that through music," said Miller. "Some of the effects that I have in the orchestra imitate seagulls in the distance and there are bells being used to [imitate] the bell tower."
VIFF’s Canadian line-up continues to impress with the sheer quality and magnitude of truly cinematic productions, and Tricks on the Dead is no exception.
Golden Kingdom is the first feature to be filmed and set in Myanmar in over ten years.
Check out these restaurant dishes around campus if you are in need of something new, or just looking to change up your same-old boring lunch to healthy and delicious vegetarian and vegan options.
What to watch out for in the upcoming AMS Council meeting on October 7, 2015.
After ten years teaching at Harvard, renowned quantum physicist Jenny Hoffman comes to UBC looking for better opportunities to collaborate. She also runs 24-hour races and is irked by unionized TAs.
The 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards were announced last month, and among the talented award winners were two UBC alumni, Jocelyn Morlock and Karl Stobbe.
Endless cocktails, cigarettes, white shag-carpets, sideburns, orgies, subtly referenced cannibalism and eerie Abba covers are all parts in the kaleidoscope of debauchery and madness that is High-Rise, directed by Ben Wheatley.
Sounds like a pret-tea sweet deal to me.
A cluster of people huddle around the UBC skate park. Music from seventies rock to hip hop to reggae blasts out, mixed with the percussive slap of skateboards on cement and the charcoal smell of barbequed hot dogs. The crowd eagerly anticipates the next big trick.
So I’m definitely not opposed to the occasional late night pizza or Pad Thai, if it means I get to focus a little more on what needs to get done.
With the 2015 election season upon us, no one has been more active around campus lately then UBC’s student political groups. More than anything, these students are trying to make UBC students do the unexpected: vote.