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February 22, 2010
Two UBC Science researchers have received 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships, a US-based award that recognizes North America’s outstanding early career scientists, mathematicians and economists.
Joshua Folk, an expert in the physics of nano structures, and Omer Angel, an expert in probability, are...
February 17, 2010
UBC is gearing up for Celebrate Research Week! This year’s event runs from March 5th to 13th, and features a variety of hosted discussion forums, lectures, seminars, open houses and symposia on relevant issues related to the research of UBC units and its partner institutions.
Events are open to the...
February 9, 2010
UBC Science has been awarded $3.2 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), including support that will enable researchers to investigate how Staphylococcus aureus--the bacteria underlying drug resistant staph infections--acquires a key nutrient.
The projects--five...
February 5, 2010
Students from the University of British Columbia have out-coded some of the world's elite young programming talent, placing 14th at the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in Harbin China this Friday.
Outperforming teams from Columbia University, and edging out rivals MIT and...
January 27, 2010
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Université de Sherbrooke have discovered that electrons are compelled to move in a preferred direction during the so-called 'pseudogap' phase of superconductors, revealing an underlying directive force that may also cause superconductivity.
The...
January 21, 2010
An unassuming mineral hidden away in rock samples collected almost 30 years ago has been named after a professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
Groatite, a new species of phosphate mineral, was named after Lee Groat, a professor of mineralogy at the...
January 17, 2010
Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on a large scale. The approach could dramatically speed up the discovery of new psychiatric drugs....
January 12, 2010
UBC Science researchers have received $10.5 million in funding from Genome Canada and international partners to create the first reference genome of the sunflower family – work that will pinpoint agriculturally important genes and could result in a hybrid sunflower that provides both biofuel and...
January 11, 2010
A UBC Science alumnus widely credited with helping establish the Internet search giant Google is supporting undergraduate education transformations with a $2-million gift to the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI).
David Cheriton, a computer science professor at Stanford University,...
January 6, 2010
A UBC Science astronomer has produced the most detailed images of deep space from 12 billion years ago, revealing tens of thousands of newly discovered galaxies at the early stages of formation.
Recently presented at the first International Herschel Science Meeting in Spain, the images by UBC post-...
