The weather might have started to get cold, but UBC researchers deliver hot studies and findings all year round. Here are a few “hot” UBC research to check out while you wrap yourself with your blanket scarf and sip on your Pumpkin Spice Latte.
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“The key thing to remember is that sound travels as compression and expansion waves in the air. It’s that sound that goes down towards the benches — that’s what is reflected back to you," said said Jared Stang, a physics postdoc
At Vancouver’s annual Interior Design Show, UBC PhD student Felix Böck stood in front of a slab of 100,000 chopsticks, which weighed 450 kilograms. It is a conservative estimate for how many chopsticks the Vancouver metro area discards daily.
A study led by Jamie Veale, a lecturer at The University of Waikako, and UBC prof Elizabeth Saewyc, suggests that pregnancy rates among transgender youth in Canada are similar to those in the population of cisgender youth.
Greenery gone. Landscapes lost. Energy exhausted. The view is vicious and the year is 2100. At least it is in the video game Future Delta 2.0, a UBC CALP brainchild. The game is being used to teach kids about climate change in their own communities.
Thought the gold rush was ancient history? Think again. UBC Mineral Deposit Research Unit’s (MDRU) research team has recently returned from their government funded Yukon and Alaska Metallogeny project (YAM) for the second year running.
The art of note taking has been around since the dawn of time and students of today couldn’t be more familiar with it. Note taking has so easily transformed from blue ink stains,to the droning clicking of keyboards.
If you already know your way around campus, have a favourite lunch spot and don't care much for UBC news, then the app won't offer you a lot. But it's useful in saving time here and there, and for staying in the loop.
A new diagnostic test developed by a team of researchers including UBC professor of Microbiology and Immunology Bob Hancock, promises to dramatically reduce the speed and increase the accuracy of sepsis diagnoses.
Beaty Nocturnal is a new event series hosted by the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. It will be happening monthly, starting at 5 p.m. and accepting pay-by-donation. For now, it's the same programming as their daytime hours, but it's still worth a visit.
What most students seem to forget is that UBC, amidst its unending construction and rain, is a world-class research university. Here’s a few of the amazing work UBC researchers have churned out while you finished Season five of Suits on Netflix.
Tucked away at the end of the Endowment lands is UBC’s best kept secrets: The Botanical Gardens. It currently houses some of the world’s most comprehensive collections of plant life and has an international presence.
Here’s an experiment you can try at home: gather some friends, Google “most adorable puppies ever,” and see how long it takes for even the most hard-boiled among them to let out an involuntary “awww.” Dogs work magic, end of story.
A panel of geologists voted to recognize today as an age where human activities exceed natural forces and are globally significant, calling it the Anthropocene. Ian Angus, an eco-socialist activist spoke at a colloquium at UBC’s geography department
Opioid overdoses have been a growing problem. Between January and July there were 433 overdose deaths in BC — an over 70 per cent increase from last year. To help combat the crisis, UBC is distributing Naloxone, the opioid antidote, to students.