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Diving and Dining: UBC Zoologist Tags Humpbacks to Reveal Eating Habits
November 26, 2008
UBC zoology PhD candidate Jeremy Goldbogen is revealing how one of the largest animals on earth feasts on the smallest of prey–and how those eating habits impact whale dive times and size. Some large marine mammals are known for their extraordinarily long dive times. Elephant seals can stay… read more
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Breakthrough Technique Might Unlock the Secrets of Plasmas
November 21, 2008
UBC researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant form of matter in the universe. Plasmas-or ionized gas-can be found in fluorescent light bulbs, thermonuclear explosions, the Earth's upper atmosphere, lightning bolts… read more
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Taking the Temperature of Salmon Stocks
November 12, 2008
An interdisciplinary team led by UBC zoologist Tony Farrell has developed a way to accurately predict the impact of climate change on imperilled Pacific salmon stocks. The findings, among the first to quantify a relationship between river temperature and salmon mortality, were published in the… read more
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Salmon Survival Rates in Dammed and Undammed Rivers Raise New Questions
November 7, 2008
In a first-of-its-kind study that may raise more questions than it answers, researchers have found that some Pacific salmon stocks are surviving in rivers with hydroelectric dams as well as they do in rivers without dams. The team compared the survival rates of out-migrating, juvenile spring… read more
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UBC Ranks Sixth in The Scientist’s Best Places to Work Survey
November 4, 2008
Readers of The Scientist have ranked the University of British Columbia as one of the top ten places to work in academia–the sixth-place finish in the magazine's international survey makes UBC the top-ranked Canadian institution. The survey, published in the November issue of The Scientist,… read more
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UBC Microbiologist's Work Leads to First E. Coli Vaccine for Cattle
October 28, 2008
Research by UBC microbiologist and bacterial disease expert Brett Finlay has helped develop Econiche--the world’s first vaccine designed to reduce cattle shedding of a particularly dangerous strain of E. coli. Econiche--developed by the Canadian biopharmaceutical company Bioniche in… read more
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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