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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
UBC’s next generation of researchers
On November 17, 2022, the Government of Canada announced that the three federal research granting agencies, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), were investing $275-million in the latest cohort of scholarship and fellowship recipients. These awards recognize and support the […]
UBC engineering students’ aircraft model features BC wood in international competition
UBC AeroDesign students are showcasing hometown pride with their use of BC wood in their newest competitive aircraft models. Each year, international competitors gather at the SAE Aero Design Competition in the US, to pit their fixed-wing, electrical-powered, remote-controlled aircraft against each other in specific design challenges. Built for the 2022 Regular Class design challenge, […]
UBC students help NASA find landslides by training computers to read Reddit
UBC graduate students trained computers to “read” news articles about landslides on Reddit to bolster a NASA database, which could improve predictions of when and where these natural disasters will occur. For their Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics capstone project, Badr Jaidi and his team, the Social Landslides group, trained computers to automatically […]
UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research
The UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research is a way to showcase students’ effective and innovative use of library services, information experts and resources provided by the UBC Library. Applications for these prizes also provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their information-seeking experience, showcase their research beyond the classroom, and promote scholarship excellence […]
Engineering students set to launch ‘sailbot’ to Hawaii
Get ready for the next leap forward in autonomous driving—on the water. Raye, an 18-foot-long autonomous sailboat (or ‘sailbot’), will be launching on her maiden voyage from Victoria, BC to Maui, Hawaii this month. Built and developed by passionate students from the UBC Sailbot engineering design team, Raye will navigate and sail 2,308 nautical miles (4,274 […]
UBC SALA students bring resilience and relief through bespoke water fountains and misters
At this year’s Powell Street Festival, the Fuki no Mizu initiative provides attendees with pop-up drinking fountains and mist for cooling through structures designed by a team of undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA). The Powell Street Festival (July 30-31, 2022) is an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian […]