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May 26, 2010
UBC theoretical physicist Ian Affleck and evolutionary biologist Loren Rieseberg have been elected to the United Kingdom's Royal Society. The UBC researchers are among 44 new fellows joining the ranks of the Society's elite membership this year, and among five elected from Canadian institutions....
May 13, 2010
UBC opened the Beaty Biodiversity Centre today, a new home to some of the world’s top biodiversity researchers and Canada's largest blue whale skeleton exhibit. The centre houses the Biodiversity Research Centre, which has brought 25 principal investigators and their teams under one roof, and the...
May 12, 2010
A science competition held at UBC this week pits more than 100 Vancouver middle school students against one another in a quiz show-style battle of wits, and in hands-on challenges. The All Science Challenge, this Friday, is a day-long competition for Grade 6 and 7 students from across the Greater...
May 5, 2010
UBC researchers have cast artificial proteins into a new solid biomaterial that very closely mimics the passive elasticity of muscle. The approach opens a new avenue to creating solid biomaterials from 'crosslinked' single molecule engineered proteins--in addition to offering potential applications...
May 3, 2010
The djavad mowafaghian foundation has contributed $4 million toward biodiversity outreach and early childhood development research at the University of British Columbia. The gifts are the foundation's inaugural contributions to the university. The foundation is contributing $3 million to the new...
April 27, 2010
A $1.25 million investment from The Boeing Company is helping to make Vancouver home to one of the top visual analytics research institutes in the world. The Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA) will bring researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia...
April 23, 2010
Ian McTaggart-Cowan, a nationally recognized zoologist considered one of Canada’s fathers of conservation, passed away April 18. He was just shy of his 100th birthday. Born in Scotland, McTaggart-Cowan immigrated with his parents to Canada at the age of three and settled in North Vancouver. He...
April 22, 2010
UBC researchers have proffered a new mathematical model that seeks to unravel a key evolutionary riddle--namely what factors underlie the generation of biological diversity both within and between species. Evolutionary biologists have long recognized that the emergence of rare traits within a...
April 7, 2010
It took almost every imaginable form of land and sea transport-- trains, ferries, flat bed trucks and even cranes--but the 25-metre long skeleton of a blue whale arrived at UBC this week, set to become the centrepiece exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Crews spent a full afternoon unloading...
March 29, 2010
Research into evolutionary theory, math and economics will get a boost at UBC Science with the appointment of two new and one renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) within the Faculty. The appointments are among 12 new or renewed chairs just announced at UBC, part of a fresh round of 187 federally-...

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