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April 17, 2012
An eminent UBC evolutionary biologist whose early work focused on Charles Darwin's famous Galápagos Island finches has been named to one of the world's most prestigious honorary societies.
Dolph Schluter, professor and Canada Research Chair in Zoology, was elected to the American Academy of Arts...
April 3, 2012
UBC Science is pleased to welcome three interdisciplinary research units to the Faculty: UBC's Fisheries Centre, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and Institute for Applied Mathematics.
The change of administrative home is effective April 1, 2012.
The move is part of an...
April 2, 2012
Picky females play a critical role in the survival and diversity of species, according to a Nature study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.
To date, biodiversity theories have focused on the role...
March 30, 2012
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified a number of tiny but powerful 'genetic regulators' that are hijacked by avian and swine flu viruses during human infection.
The discovery, published this week in the Journal of Virology, could reveal new targets for broad-spectrum...
March 29, 2012
An international team that includes UBC physicists has used ultra-fast laser pulses to identify the microscopic interactions that drive high-temperature superconductivity.
In the experiment, to be outlined this Friday in the journal Science, electrons in a prototypical copper-oxide superconductor...
March 27, 2012
UBC's Mark MacLean has been awarded the 2012 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Education Prize (PIMS) for his efforts in educational transformation, outreach and aboriginal engagement.
"Mark is an amazing teacher and a gifted educator," says Alejandro Adem, PIMS director. "UBC...
March 19, 2012
Widely used antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life, according to new research from UBC microbiologists.
The study, published in the journal EMBO reports, shows that certain antibiotics that affect intestinal bacteria also had a profound impact on allergic...
March 13, 2012
Gary Hinshaw, recruited to UBC last year from NASA, has been named the new Canada Research Chair in Observational Cosmology. The new chair joins three renewals within the Faculty.
Hinshaw's work at UBC will include building two new radio observatories to explore the large scale properties of the...
March 7, 2012
An international team led by Canadian physicists from the UBC, SFU and TRIUMF have used microwaves to manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms. The findings, to be published Wednesday in the journal Nature, provide the world with its first glimpse of an "anti-atomic fingerprint."
"For decades, scientists...
February 28, 2012
UBC supramolecular chemist Mark MacLachlan has been awarded a 2011 Steacie Memorial Fellowship, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) honour that recognizes some of the nation's most promising scientific talent.
MacLachlan explores the potential for invention...
