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UBC, SFU Launch Visual Analytics Research Institute with Help of $1.25M Boeing Investment
April 27, 2010
A $1.25 million investment from The Boeing Company is helping to make Vancouver home to one of the top visual analytics research institutes in the world. The Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA) will bring researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia… read more
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Renowned UBC Zoologist Dies Shy of Centenary Birthday
April 23, 2010
Ian McTaggart-Cowan, a nationally recognized zoologist considered one of Canada’s fathers of conservation, passed away April 18. He was just shy of his 100th birthday.Born in Scotland, McTaggart-Cowan immigrated with his parents to Canada at the age of three and settled in North Vancouver… read more
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UBC Mathematicians Offer Elegant Solution to Evolutionary Conundrum
April 22, 2010
UBC researchers have proffered a new mathematical model that seeks to unravel a key evolutionary riddle--namely what factors underlie the generation of biological diversity both within and between species.Evolutionary biologists have long recognized that the emergence of rare traits within a… read more
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Arrival of the Titan
April 7, 2010
It took almost every imaginable form of land and sea transport-- trains, ferries, flat bed trucks and even cranes--but the 25-metre long skeleton of a blue whale arrived at UBC this week, set to become the centrepiece exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.Crews spent a full afternoon unloading… read more
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UBC Science Gains Research Muscle in Evolutionary Theory, Math
March 29, 2010
Research into evolutionary theory, math and economics will get a boost at UBC Science with the appointment of two new and one renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) within the Faculty.The appointments are among 12 new or renewed chairs just announced at UBC, part of a fresh round of 187 federally… read more
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UBC Astronomer Part of International Team That Confirms Accelerating Cosmic Expansion
March 25, 2010
University of British Columbia astronomer Ludovic Van Waerbeke with an international team has confirmed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating after looking at data from the largest-ever survey conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope.The astronomers studied more than 446,000 galaxies… read more
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UBC Educational Transformer Nominated for White House Science Post
March 23, 2010
Professor Carl Wieman, 2001 Nobel Laureate and director of UBC's initiative to transform undergraduate science education, has been nominated for the position of Associate Director of Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).Wieman joined UBC Science in 2007 as… read more
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UBC Mathematicians Adding Up National Honours
March 17, 2010
UBC mathematicians have been recognized at the national level with four research awards over the past several weeks.Professor Rachel Kuske, head of the Department of Mathematics, was awarded the 2011 Krieger-Nelson Prize for Research Excellence by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS). The… read more
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Boost Ivory Trade Monitoring and Enforcement Before Allowing One-off Sales, UBC Zoologist
March 11, 2010
Recent petitions from several African nations to 'downlist' the conservation status of elephants should be denied because no adequate monitoring of the impact of ivory sales or enforcement of the ivory trade exists, according to recommendations published today by an international group of… read more
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UBC Rising Stars in Probability, Nano Structures Receive US Sloan Fellowships
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,… read more