Dr. Mila Zuo wasn’t always going to study film — but after taking a pornography course at UC Berkeley, she was hooked.
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Follow along with Girl's Lower Mainland's craft page by making a paper doll study budy and UBC-themed slime!
In a study published in Nature Communications on February 12, the pair along with other researchers in the UBC Faculty of Medicine discovered a new type of brain cell called ovoid cells that play a key role in our ability to recognize and remember objects.
Having had little exposure to the language, Hammerly studied it first as a learner, not a linguist. He cherished the chance to connect with his culture and language. He mentioned learning Ojibwe was crucial to “making myself whole, because it’s just a part of who I am.”
“There’s no denying that being in a space where everyone is studying can be motivating. The challenge is finding a balance: using the energy of the space for focus while not getting lost in the performance of productivity,” writes Kashvi Jain.
Earlier this year, UBC researchers from the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence released a study suggesting six interrelated strategies to help improve BC’s resilience to the impacts of wildfires. The study drew from 2023’s record-breaking fire weather, with 2245 active fires.
We can’t find anyone around the office who knows a damn thing about meteorology, so we tried the next best thing and consulted the chicken entrails.
Why then does UBC describe these degrees as taking four years when three quarters of students take longer?
As Pea Man once said, “If music be the peas of love, play on.”
“Recovering from intense academic work and stress is rather difficult, if not impossible, while obligated to work on that exact intense academic work and under that exact stress. Because that obligation continues, reading break is not a time where students can truly take care of themselves,” writes Marie Erikson.
"The university dilemma has arisen because, as a society, we’ve molded university into a place where study is a means to an end. In the case of Bowdoin, it is even worse - a business model. That was never, and should never, have been the project of the university," writes Sunny Das.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is further reducing the total study permits, changing the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program and limiting work permit eligibility.
In a new study, Dr. John-Jose Nunez and his team trained artificial intelligence (AI) to predict whether cancer patients would go on to see a psychiatrist or counsellor, based solely on their initial oncology consultation documents.
Ko-Beach surveyed professors across the Lower Mainland to learn more about their “lives.”
Nine lecture recordings, eleven hours, one Brita full to the brim with water.