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1. UBC applauds boost in federal research investment, commitment to physics, math

   February 11, 2014

   The University of British Columbia celebrates the significant increase in federal government support for research announced today in Budget 2014, in particular the creation of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Announced by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty as part of the budget tabled today… read more

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   UBC computer scientist wins $250,000 fellowship for research on how markets make decisions

   February 3, 2014

   UBC computer scientist Kevin Leyton-Brown is one of six Canadian researchers awarded an EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship today, valued at more than $250,000. The fellowship recognizes the work of young scientists at Canadian universities. Leyton-Brown’s research focuses on how financial… read more

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   UBC, TRIUMF physicists earn national award for antimatter research

   February 3, 2014

   A Canadian team including UBC physicist Walter Hardy and TRIUMF researchers have won the NSERC John C Polanyi Award for their work in creating, capturing and characterizing the antihydrogen atom. The award "honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent… read more

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   How the UBC creators of AutoStitch revolutionized computer vision and sparked a spinoff tsunami

   January 31, 2014

   When David Lowe first wrote a computer algorithm to identify objects in images, he never envisioned it popping up on nearly half a million iPhones and in supermarket checkout lines. But since its research publication in 1999, the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm, developed by… read more

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   Climate change-related temperature swings leave insects vulnerable

   January 29, 2014

   Increasingly extreme swings in temperature may put some insects at higher risk than previously thought, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. An international team of scientists tested the impact of temperature patterns on 38 species of… read more

6. Ocean acidification research should increase focus on species’ ability to adapt

   January 27, 2014

   Not enough current research on marine ecosystems focuses on species' long-term adaptation to ocean acidification, creating a murky picture of our oceans' future, according to an international study led by a UBC zoologist. "We can't measure evolutionary responses in all organisms, so we need to… read more

7. How a versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fibre

   January 19, 2014

   UBC researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the swiss army knife of the digestive tract -- helping us to metabolize a main component of dietary fibre from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables. The findings illuminate the specialized roles played… read more

8. Improved maps, old school pencils, await UBC geology students this summer

   January 15, 2014

   This May, UBC geology students doing field studies will be able to put theory into practise -- and avoid cliffs -- using new base maps funded through Shell Canada’s Campus Ambassador Program (CAP). Every summer UBC geology students hone their field techniques at the Geological Field School… read more

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   Newly discovered three-star system to challenge Einstein’s theory of General Relativity

   January 5, 2014

   A newly discovered system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense pulsar–all packed within a space smaller than the Earth’s orbit around the sun–is enabling astronomers to probe a range of cosmic mysteries, including the very nature of gravity itself. The international team,… read more

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    Catching the big wave: 'Universal ripple' could hold the secret to high-temperature superconductivity

    December 19, 2013

    UBC researchers have discovered a universal electronic state that controls the behavior of high-temperature superconducting copper-oxide ceramics. The work, published this week in the journal Science, reveals the universal existence of so-called ‘charge-density-waves’ -- static… read more