News
August 28, 2008
Researchers at UBC and in Switzerland have applied a mathematical model to Salmonella bacteria to show how altruistic, self-destructive traits can evolve in biological populations. In the case of Salmonella, these traits could potentially result in stronger and more damaging infections.
UBC's...
August 27, 2008
Two Canadian amateur stargazers get to trade in their backyard telescopes for one 820 kilometres up in space.
Dozens of proposals poured in over the last year after scientists in charge of MOST—a Canadian Space Agency space mission headed by Physics and Astronomy professor Jaymie Matthews—asked...
August 5, 2008
The ability to work together and capture larger prey has allowed social spiders to stretch the laws of nature and develop enormous colonies, researchers with the UBC Department of Zoology have found.
The findings, published in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
July 29, 2008
Professor Nancy Heckman--internationally recognized for her work in non-parametric, or smoothing, regression--has been named head of the UBC Department of Statistics.
Heckman joined the University as an assistant professor in 1984, and earned her PhD at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She...
July 28, 2008
Dr Craig Hart has been appointed director of the Mineral Deposit Research Unit, an award-winning industry-UBC Science partnership. Hart, well known to the Canadian geoscience community, is currently a senior research fellow at the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the University of Western...
July 23, 2008
An illumination system designed by UBC physicists that saves energy by directing daylight into the core of office buildings has received $2 million in funding from BC's Innovative Clean Energy initiative.
The Solar Canopy System uses precisely aligned mirrors to reflect direct sunlight into a...
July 18, 2008
Graduate students from the Department of Zoology have won two of the five 2008 Young Scientist awards handed out by Europe's Society of Experimental Biologists.
Graham Scott was recognized for his work investigating how the bar-headed goose—a species that migrates over the Himalayas at altitudes of...
July 4, 2008
It cost a modest $10 million and was only designed to be used for one year, but Canada's MOST telescope celebrates its fifth year of steady work this summer.
The suitcase-sized space telescope--launched into orbit on June 20, 2003--is a Canadian Space Agency mission led by Physics and Astronomy's...
July 2, 2008
Researchers with the UBC Department of Chemistry have designed a 'chameleon' elastomeric protein which can be transformed from a coiled elastic spring to a stable shock absorber, and back again.
The new type of smart nanomaterial effectively combines the two extreme forms of elastic mechanical...
June 23, 2008
Researchers with UBC Physics and Astronomy have overcome a 20-year scientific impossibility, discovering a way to control the number of electrons on the surface of high-temperature superconductors. The new technique has the potential to drive advances in fuel cells, lossless power lines, quantum...
