8 August, 2023
Indigenous peoples in BC experience higher rates of respiratory illness than any other group, and are three times more likely to be hospitalized as a result.
Dr. Brittany Bingham, an assistant professor of Social Medicine and the director of Indigenous Health Research at Vancouver Coastal Health, is determined to understand why.
The Province of BC has adopted an amended Land Use Plan for the UBC Vancouver campus, enabling the university to begin implementing the ideas, policies and strategies developed with the community through the Campus Vision 2050 process.
Thanks to an accidental discovery, researchers at UBC have created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light, opening potential applications in fine jewellery, solar cells and precision optical devices. Dr. Philip Evans and PhD student Kenny Cheng were experimenting with high-energy plasma to make wood more water-repellent, like a lotus leaf. However, when they applied the technique to the cut ends of wood cells, the surfaces turned extremely black.
The Paris Olympics have made some high-profile announcements around gender equity, making these the first Games with full numerical gender parity on the playing field. The Games will have a nursery in the Olympic village in which athletes may breastfeed, and organizers have scheduled the women’s marathon as the final event of the games, in a prime-time spot previously reserved for the men’s marathon.
UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Qian Chen knows firsthand the contrasts between China and Canada.For example, the Civil Engineering Assistant Professor can’t keep a straight face when she describes her upbringing near Shanghai, a metropolis of 25 million people.“I’m from a small town,” she says, then laughs as she raises quotation marks over “small.”
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