Imagine a piece of PlayDoh with two marbles in it. If you stretch the clay, the distance between the marbles increases. If you squish it, the distance decreases. That's what gravity waves do, but with nothing pushing or pulling the clay.
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“I think it really stands for what we do. There are three speakers: a cardiac nurse, an official representative from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and a patient that suffered from a cardiovascular disease," said Yefet.
"I was actually a walk-on to the team. I just thought I'd try out and I ended up making it." Now Mackenzie Siddall, a second-year kinesiology student from Windsor, Ontario, plays the outfield and pitches for the Thunderbird softball team.
And although watching The Hobbit or Harry Potter may not feel like a particularly stimulating activity, he says that people may in fact work harder when watching a fantasy movie to develop a sophisticated interpretation.
After entering “For to do”, visitors are handed an exhibition plan providing a brief overview of each artwork, including the name of the artist, the title of the piece, the material, or medium, as well as the year it was created in.
From February 9 to 10, researchers, developers, clinicians and young people gathered to consider new possibilities for mental health. Topics ranged from the creation of web-based tools for education and campus resources for youth mental health.
We weren't allowed in to take pictures, but from what we could see, the area outside the Norm Theatre looks to be set up like some kind of high school or college hallway, complete with a basketball team banner and posters of students.
Two days after the rainbow flag outside the old SUB was burned, the latest act of support for OUTweek, UBC's Pride Collective and the LGBTQ+ community in general has popped up on campus: someone painted the engineering cairn in rainbow colours.
The money will fund a variety of new ventures, including research trips to Asia to source more specimens for the garden, international internships for students and a substantial expansion to the garden itself.
“We don't know if it’s a hate crime or not. We have nothing to say that it is a hate crime right yet. There’s no motivating factor yet to determine if it’d be a hate crime,” said Sergeant Drew Grainger of the RCMP.
Spring break in Vancouver is a time when things happen. Flowers bloom, the sun shines, rain ceases to fall — hopefully. Midterms, of course, still threaten to make students want to drop as well — straight onto our pillows.
“The leadership of the university has the full support of UBC’s deans,” said the leaders of the faculties in a letter obtained by The Ubyssey. They reiterated their commitment to research and teaching at UBC.
At some point in students’ academic careers, many people contemplate volunteering in a lab. What many students don’t realize is that many professors are on the lookout for enthusiastic, willing and able students to participate in their research.
What do engineers do for fun? They race down ski hills in toboggans made of concrete. Last weekend, UBC Engineers travelled to Ottawa to compete in the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) with great success.
As requested by Mayor Gregor Robertson, the city of Vancouver is showing solidarity in the form of flying the rainbow flag outside City Hall in response to the event, according to a tweet from the mayor’s office earlier today.