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October 14, 2010
UBC microbiologist Brett Finlay has been awarded $3 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Genome British Columbia to investigate the impact intestinal microbes have on the human immune system. The support is part of seven grants totaling $15.5 million...
October 14, 2010
Tony Yang has always had a passion for science education. But even he couldn’t have guessed that his love of teaching would one day involve jello. After graduating from UBC with a General Science degree in 2008, Yang is now pursuing his PhD. His UBC experience has enabled him to couple his interest...
October 14, 2010
New research by UBC physicists indicates that high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides is linked to what they term 'incoherent excitations'--a discovery that sheds light on the electronic response of these materials before they become superconducting. The study marks the first time...
October 4, 2010
UBC has forged a formal partnership with the Max Planck Society, Germany’s foremost basic research institution and home to 32 Nobel prizes. UBC President Stephen Toope and Max Planck Society President Peter Gruss were joined in Munich today by Thomas Marr, Germany’s Minister-Counsellor of...
September 28, 2010
UBC researchers have mapped what is likely the most comprehensive profile of microRNA expression across the hematopoietic hierarchy--the collection of primitive and differentiated cell types that develop from a common blood-forming stem cell. Hematopoietic stem cells--found in bone marrow--are self...
September 23, 2010
The United States Senate has confirmed University of British Columbia professor and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman for the position of Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Wieman joined UBC’s Faculty of Science in 2007 as Professor of Physics and...
September 21, 2010
The world’s tiniest nuclear genome appears to have “snipped off the ends” of its chromosomes and evolved into a lean, mean, genome machine that infects human cells, according to research published by University of British Columbia scientists. Until recently, E. cuniculi, a parasitic fungus commonly...
September 16, 2010
UBC Science's Loren Rieseberg and Chris Orvig are among six UBC researchers elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) this year. Rieseberg, Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics, has made fundamental advances to our understanding of how species arise. He established hybridization...
August 31, 2010
UBC Science has appointed Zoology Professor Vanessa Auld to a five-year term as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, effective September 1, 2010. "I'm delighted that Vanessa is taking on this portfolio," says Dean of Science Simon Peacock. "I look forward to working with...
August 11, 2010
Two UBC Science entrepreneurs will pitch their business concepts and products directly to Silicon Valley venture capitalists at an August 31 alumni event at the Plug and Play Tech Centre in Sunnyvale, California. An online shopping platform company founded by computer science alumni Maryam...

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