Summer school at UBC isn't all bad. Yes, you have to be indoors when it's absolutely gorgeous outside. However, you also get to study in the most aesthetically pleasing parts of campus that are finally absent of rain.
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Half of patients in the province diagnosed with depression who seek help from a physician are receiving inadequate care. The other half are receiving the minimum adequate treatment, according to a new UBC study.
Do you ever have the problem of nothing being open because you’re awake so early or because you stayed up too late? Well, look no further my friends. Here is a compilation of 24-hour restaurants, coffee shops and study spots.
You know the type — unmotivated, lazy, no work ethic, stoner. Now there might be some evidence to support the stoner stereotype, at least in rats. UBC research showed that rats who were under the influence of THC were "cognitively lazy."
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It’s the leading known cause of preventable developmental disability in Canada and affects between five per cent of North American children. FASD is a range of physical, cognitive and behavioural deficits that result from prenatal drinking.
Let’s play a game. The rules are simple — guess how much global fisheries will lose due to climate change by 2050. 500 million? One billion? Five billion? New research conducted shows fisheries are projected to lose $10 billion in revenue by 2050.
Mikelberg, a UBC professor, found his skepticism piqued by a 2012 study associating erectile dysfunction with glaucoma. Now he's shown that patients with glaucoma are 2.58 times more likely to also have ED.
What most students seem to forget is that UBC, amidst its unending construction and rain, is a world-class research university. Here’s a few of the amazing work UBC researchers have churned out while you finished Season five of Suits on Netflix.
A study led by Jamie Veale, a lecturer at The University of Waikako, and UBC prof Elizabeth Saewyc, suggests that pregnancy rates among transgender youth in Canada are similar to those in the population of cisgender youth.
I’m excited to discover more about my classes and the school system here as I continue to learn. I’m less excited that the online platform the school uses is the same as Connect, but oh well. You can’t win them all.
One of the biggest worries I had leaving for this exchange was regarding the type of people I’d meet here. Besides one other UBC student whom I had only met once prior to leaving, I knew not a single soul living in Cape Town.
Somewhere, deep within the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, there are giant robotic arms at work. While unsuspecting student study the robot is busy moving books, maps, records and more — going largely unnoticed by students.
There is nothing scarier than the few weeks that lead up to Halloween — your midterms are (mostly) over and uncertainty about grades, school and the amount of money you spent on study snacks looms over you like an inconvenient spider web decoration.