From science fiction to classroom reality: How UBC instructors are using AI as a teaching tool
Meet ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, two new artificial intelligence-powered teaching assistants (created by OpenAI and Microsoft, respectively) that are ready and available to help third-year engineering physics students at UBC who might be looking for help with their homework or assignments. While students do have the option of talking to two real-life human TAs in […]
UBC expands occupational therapy program in northern B.C.
Based out of Prince George, the Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program was expanded last fall with the goal of inspiring more OT graduates to stay and practice in northern, rural and remote communities across B.C., as well as increase access to OT services for patients. Created with funding from the B.C. Government, the program […]
Combatting COVID-19: UBC’s contributions to overcoming the pandemic
Please visit https://magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2023/health/combatting-covid-19-ubcs-contributions-overcoming-pandemic to read the full story.
Helping Rwanda rebuild
Engineering doctoral student Chadia Uwamahoro isn’t afraid to offer her native Rwanda as an example of what’s possible through truth and reconciliation. The healing process is ongoing in the central African nation of nearly 14 million people following the 1994 genocide against 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and their supporters by the governing Hutu majority. Uwamahoro was […]
Finding new life for plastic waste
Please visit https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2023/02/21/finding-new-life-for-plastic-waste/ to read the story.
Charting a new course for MS treatment
Please visit https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/charting-a-new-course-for-ms-treatment/ to read the story.
Using drone deliveries to enhance health care in rural, remote and Indigenous communities
A UBC partnership that uses drones to deliver medical supplies could make health care more accessible to isolated communities across Canada Imagine you’re in a life-threatening car accident in a rural community. You need blood, but the community has none. It’s cut off from additional medical help by a mountain range, forest or body of […]
Older adults with cancer need coordinated and specialized health services
Older adults with cancer face significant challenges in accessing and navigating health care in B.C. due to limited language skills, financial capacity and health conditions, as well as systemic discrimination related to age, ethnicity or language. That’s the key finding from a new project led by UBC nursing assistant professor Dr. Kristen Haase, in collaboration […]
Technology may help eliminate health inequities for people in rural communities
As the new year arrives, many people resolve to take better care of their health. But, as UBCO researchers have determined, the road to improved health isn’t always smooth for people who live in small and rural communities. “Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, poor mental health and obesity are higher in rural and remote areas than […]
UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. The process to digitize the First Folio took more than a year to facilitate due to the Folio’s age and fragility. The First Folio […]