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.
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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.
Surgery is over 2000 years old. Thanks to technology developed by a UBC offshoot company, it’s getting a facelift. The device allows surgeons to manipulate imaging devices with controls projected onto the surgery table during procedures.
UBCO has developed a device that can model individual parts of the heart to stand in for the real thing when surgeons are practicing. The team is now working on translating the technology to implants in patients.
Mikelberg, a UBC professor, found his skepticism piqued by a 2012 study associating erectile dysfunction with glaucoma. Now he's shown that patients with glaucoma are 2.58 times more likely to also have ED.
Let’s play a game. The rules are simple — guess how much global fisheries will lose due to climate change by 2050. 500 million? One billion? Five billion? New research conducted shows fisheries are projected to lose $10 billion in revenue by 2050.
It’s the leading known cause of preventable developmental disability in Canada and affects between five per cent of North American children. FASD is a range of physical, cognitive and behavioural deficits that result from prenatal drinking.