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1. UBC ‘Megapixel’ DNA Replication Technology Promises Faster, More Precise Diagnostics

   July 4, 2011

   UBC researchers have developed a DNA measurement platform that sets dramatic new performance standards in the sensitivity and accuracy of sample screening.The advance could improve a range of genetic diagnostics and screenings where precise measurement is crucial--including the early… read more

2. UBC Microbiologist Earns Grand Challenges Canada Award for TB Research

   June 29, 2011

   Santiago Ramón-García, a research associate with UBC Microbiology and Immunology, has received $100,000 in funding from Grand Challenges Canada to investigate new drug combinations for tuberculosis treatment.The grant is one of 19 gawarded to young Canadian research innovators in the… read more

3. UBC Botany and Computer Science welcome new heads

   June 22, 2011

   Lacey Samuels--a cell biologist studying the biosynthesis of plant cell walls who played a key role in designing UBC's first-year science small class seminars--has been appointed head of the Department of Botany. Samuels, a longstanding member of the department, will begin her five-year term on… read more

4. Canada-Wide Snapshot of Earth's Crust Reveals How the North American Continent Developed: UBC, Lithoprobe Research

   June 20, 2011

   A sweeping synthesis of two decades worth of data from Canada's major earth sciences project has yielded an unprecedented geological map of North America that offers researchers a glimpse back in time."This is the most detailed cross-section of a continent ever put together," says Ronald Clowes, a… read more

5. UBC Science Researchers Awarded Funding from Two NSERC programs

   June 17, 2011

   Eight UBC Science researchers are part of a new round of funding that awarded a total of $2 million from two grant programs of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to researchers at the University. More than 140 UBC students also received NSERC scholarships,… read more

6. UBC Physicists Set to Help Unravel Elusive Neutrino 'Flavour Oscillation' Mystery

   June 15, 2011

   An international team of researchers that includes UBC physicists has provided the first hints that muon neutrinos are able to transform into electron neutrinos when they travel over large distances. The new results from the Japan-based Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) project indicate that muon neutrinos… read more

7. Shame and honour increase cooperation

   June 1, 2011

   Honour and shame work equally well in encouraging social cooperation, according to a new study by mathematicians at UBC and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Published today in Biology Letters, the study reported on the results of a series of experiments with 180… read more

8. Endangered Gourmet Sea Snail Could be Doomed by Increasing Ocean Acidity

   May 24, 2011

   Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered northern abalone, according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea water chemistry is negatively affecting an endangered species.The northern abalone--prized as a… read more

9. Interactive Teaching Methods Double Learning, Engagement in Large Undergraduate Physics Class: UBC Research

   May 12, 2011

   Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study published today in Science.Led by Louis Deslauriers, a post-doctoral researcher at UBC’s Carl Wieman Science… read more

10. Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes on the Agenda for All Science Challenge

    May 10, 2011

    Grade 6 and 7 students from across the lower mainland are poised to compete against each other in an intense one-day science knowledge competition held at UBC’s Vancouver campus on Friday, May 13.Hosted by UBC Science students, the All Science Challenge is an exciting, fun-filled day of… read more