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Dolby invests $1.15m in UBC's 'real-world' display technology research
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… read more
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Grad Student and Turtle Researcher Makes Pop Sci's Brilliant 10
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… read more
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Renewed CRCs Investigating Bacterial Pathogens, Nanostructures, Probability
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… read more
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Two UBC Science Researchers Named to Canada’s Royal Society
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… read more
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Computer Science Staffer Put Canada on the Internet Map
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… read more
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Astronomers Discover Missing Link for Origin of Comets
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… read more
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Air quality, weather forecasting projects net climate research funding
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… read more
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Shedding Armour Helps Tiny Fish Thrive, Helps Darwin
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… read more
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Salmonella Bacteria Lay Down their Lives for the Common 'Good'
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… read more
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Cosmic Competition: Amateur Astronomers Win Time on Space Telescope
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… read more