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February 15, 2012
More than a dozen UBC Science researchers will help represent Canada at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, being held this weekend at the Vancouver Convention Centre. UBC Science presentations will run the gamut, covering everything from microbial...
February 15, 2012
UBC mathematician Young-Heon Kim and computer scientist Andrew Warfield have been awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships. Adjudicated annually since 1955, the prestigious fellowships are given to North American early-career scientists whose achievements and potential identify them as the next...
February 9, 2012
Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth’s satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers have used them to estimate the amount of fish being cultivated in the Mediterranean. The study, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, is the first to estimate seafood...
February 5, 2012
UBC researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host.  The discovery of the role played by the molecule CD74 could help immunologists investigate treatments that offer better immune...
January 19, 2012
Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but diamond miners may have a fairly simple chemical reaction to thank for much of their industry’s success. Geologists have long known that diamonds are often embedded and transported upward to the Earth's surface by molten kimberlites. But kimberlites are...
January 16, 2012
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a new way to block infection from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the liver that could lead to new therapies for those affected by this and other infectious diseases. More than 170 million people worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, the...
January 9, 2012
UBC and University of Edinburgh astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed, according to results released today at the winter American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. The findings, presented by Dr Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland...
January 3, 2012
Professor Michael Bennett, an expert in Number Theory and Diophantine problems, has been appointed head of the Department of Mathematics effective January 1, 2012. Bennett received his PhD in mathematics from UBC in 1993, and after appointments at the University of Michigan, the Institute for...
December 29, 2011
Rosie Redfield, the UBC microbiologist who has been one of the most vocal critics of the NASA-funded 'arsenic-life' study, has been named by the journal Nature as one of Ten People Who Mattered This Year. On December 4 2010, Redfield blogged about the study published in Science. In the study,...
December 6, 2011
UBC scientists have helped build the world's largest astronomy camera with a 'super-cool' internal temperature. The 4.5-tonne SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array) camera, unveiled today as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, will survey...

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