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November 4, 2008
Readers of The Scientist have ranked the University of British Columbia as one of the top ten places to work in academia–the sixth-place finish in the magazine's international survey makes UBC the top-ranked Canadian institution.
The survey, published in the November issue of The Scientist, gave...
October 28, 2008
Research by UBC microbiologist and bacterial disease expert Brett Finlay has helped develop Econiche--the world’s first vaccine designed to reduce cattle shedding of a particularly dangerous strain of E. coli.
Econiche--developed by the Canadian biopharmaceutical company Bioniche in partnership...
October 20, 2008
UBC has received a pledge from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. to provide $1.15 million in funding to support research in High-Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging technologies.
HDR display technology replaces the single backlight in a typical LCD screen with hundreds of small light-emitting diodes providing...
October 20, 2008
UBC PhD candidate Todd Jones has been chosen as one of Popular Science magazine's Brilliant 10.
The listing, based on interviews with university department heads and professional associations across the U.S., recognizes young scientists who are "pushing their fields to the next level."
Jones...
October 1, 2008
Four UBC Science researchers–with expertise in areas ranging from bacterial pathogens to nanostructures to probability–are among 13 Canada Research Chairs renewed at UBC this fall. Two of the renewals are in the Department of Math.
David Brydges, who comes to UBC from the University of Virginia, is...
September 10, 2008
Ivar Ekeland, an internationally renowned mathematical economist, and Curtis Suttle, a researcher who has changed our fundamental understanding of biological oceanographic processes, have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
Ekeland, Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics and...
September 9, 2008
Two years before the World Wide Web emerged as a household phrase, former Computer Science staffer John Demco was busy helping to put Canada on the Internet map.
And this week, the Demco Student Learning Centre in the Department of Computer Science will be named after the former computing...
September 4, 2008
An international team of scientists that includes University of British Columbia astronomer Brett Gladman has found an unusual object whose backward and tilted orbit around the Sun may clarify the origins of certain comets.
In the first discovery of its kind, researchers from Canada, France and the...
August 29, 2008
Two UBC Science research projects—one looking at improving weather forecasting and warning capability, the other investigating the effects of international pollutants on Canada’s air quality—have received more than $300,000 from Canada’s major funding body for university-led climate research.
The...
August 28, 2008
Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published today in Science Express.
Measuring three to 10 centimetres long, stickleback fish originated in the ocean but began populating...
