Webinar: The Future of Agriculture: A Conversation Revisited
British Columbia has experienced a year of monumental change. From climate change events across the province to business planning in a post-Covid era, how has the agriculture sector been affected? The Future of Agriculture: A Conversation Revisited, a webinar hosted by the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, brought together a panel of experts for […]
Open UBC launches new collection to highlight open educational resources
Instructors at UBC and beyond can now search through a new curated database full of openly accessible teaching and learning materials. The UBC OER Collection showcases UBC open educational resources (OER) in a searchable interface to support UBC faculty, as well as the general community in incorporating open educational resources and practices into their curriculum. […]
High-tech mouthguard tracks head impacts during varsity hockey playoffs
A high-tech mouthguard worn by UBC Thunderbird hockey players will record every big hit of the upcoming playoffs to capture data for UBC researchers who study concussions. The study is led by Dr. Lyndia Wu, an expert in brain injury biomechanics at UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science. “We started a five-year collaborative study with the […]
Reclaiming the narrative: How UBC students are helping decolonize MOA’s African collections
UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) boasts over 5,000 objects from Africa. However, many of these objects arrived at MOA without historical and cultural context, resulting in inaccurate and incomplete descriptions in the museum’s displays and online catalogue. Beginning in 2019, a group of UBC students had the opportunity to change that. The Decolonizing the African […]
Forty Research Excellence Clusters to receive GCRC support in 2022/23
A total of 40 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2022/23. This total includes 27 awards made through the 2022/23 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and 13 clusters entering the second year of their current award. Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks […]
Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens
Researchers at the UBC Okanagan have found that smart windows can disinfect surfaces while preventing damaging UV rays from flowing through. Dr. Sepideh Pakpour, Assistant Professor at UBCO School of Engineering, along with student researchers Enrique Calderon and Rita Lam studied four strains of dangerous bacteria: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, E. coli, and Pseudomonas […]
UBC spin-off secures $10M investment from Bill Gates-led fund
Mangrove Lithium, a UBC spin-off company founded by Chemical and Biological Engineering professor Dr. David Wilkinson and members of his research group has recently acquired a $10 million investment from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the investment fund founded by Bill Gates to support the growth of clean energy technologies. The firm has discovered a sustainable and […]
Four Black scholars leading innovative research in Arts
In honour of Black History Month, four Black scholars from UBC’s Faculty of Arts spoke about their inspiring research, the importance of Black storytelling and world-building, and their advice for aspiring scholars. Please visit the Faculty of Arts website to read the conversations and insights from: Dr. Nalo Hopkinson, Professor in the School of Creative […]
Next-generation battery research offers electric cars a boost
Researchers at the Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Lab at UBC Okanagan are working to create a battery that is smaller and more powerful than existing models in the market. The project, a collaboration between UBCO and Fenix Advanced Materials, uses solid state lithium tellurium technology to create batteries with more power and improved safety […]
UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad open-data repository
UBC Library has become a member of Dryad, a nonprofit membership organization and provider of a well-established open data repository that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable and citable. As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together […]