Six new projects receive Campus as a Living Lab funding to advance sustainability and wellbeing
The Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition is helping UBC researchers test new ideas to support climate action, resilient systems, sustainable places and communities, and health and wellbeing. The 2022 CLL Fund Competition received applications from faculty and staff in over 23 different departments at UBC Vancouver – and featured a broad selection of […]
Five years and counting: UBC Sauder’s streak of success in the CFA Institute Research Challenge
Sally Jiao and her teammates figured out a magic formula that propelled them all the way to the global finals of the CFA Institute Research Challenge last year. It was the first time ever that a team from the UBC Sauder School of Business had advanced so far in the annual global equity research competition. […]
New strategy charts plan for research data management support and services
UBC has released its institutional research data management strategy in response to the Tri-Agency’s Research Data Management Policy, co-sponsored by the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, UBC Library, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. The strategy outlines six goals and 21 recommendations that emerged following a series of consultations with the UBC research community […]
Future of Food Dialogues: 2023 Centre for Sustainable Food Systems speaker series
Since 2020, the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems have presented an annual speaker series, bringing together international speakers and audience members. 2023 Speaker Series: Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis CSFS presents the third instalment of the Future of […]
UBC biotech spin-off raises $75M to bring cancer treatments to patients
Alpha-9 Theranostics, a UBC spin-off company founded by three university researchers, has raised $75-million to develop next-generation radiopharmaceuticals that promise to meaningfully improve treatment for people with cancer. Based on more than a decade of ground-breaking research at UBC and BC Cancer, the cancer drugs act like a homing device — seeking out tumours to […]
BC sea sponge has COVID-blocking powers
UBC researchers have identified three compounds that prevent COVID-19 infection in human cells, derived from natural sources including a B.C. sea sponge. The discovery paves the way for the development of new medicines for COVID-19 variants made from natural sources. And given nature’s abundance, there could be a wealth of new antivirals waiting to be […]
Student entrepreneur sets out to expand peer support on campus – and around the world
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, university students were faced with a unique set of challenges. Not only were they suddenly isolated from friends and family like the rest of the world, many of them were also in an entirely new environment away from their usual support systems, and with limited avenues to make […]
A no-till future: Evaluating tarps to terminate cover crops and reduce tillage
In summer 2020, Emma Yates was one of the undergraduate students analyzing soils for the Long-Term Biodiversity Monitoring Project at the UBC Farm, when the students hit upon an interesting pattern. Areas under agricultural production had significantly fewer earthworms than adjacent areas like grassy field margins and hedgerows. While most earthworms are non-native to B.C. […]
12 interdisciplinary research teams to receive Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) awards
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UBCO student team shines with a living light bulb
A group of UBC Okanagan students have won gold with their creation of a living light bulb. Their creation, called Life Bulb, is not reliant on electricity and can convert greenhouse gases into oxygen. The students competed in the 2022 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, a synthetic biology competition in Paris involving more than […]