Strategy 8 – Student Research

A no-till future: Evaluating tarps to terminate cover crops and reduce tillage

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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 […]

Reclaiming the narrative: How UBC students are helping decolonize MOA’s African collections

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 […]

Back to Basics

Back to Basics

Student researchers at UBC Okanagan are working to improve sustainable practices in the local fashion industry while also fostering community and collaboration. Ariele Parker, master’s student at the UBC Okanagan Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program, under supervision from Dr. Eric Li, Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, collaborated with Okanagan based fashion brand, Okanagan Lifestyle Apparel (OKGN) on […]