From delivering packages for Amazon to being mounted with a chainsaw, drones have been put to some creative uses. One UBC researcher has been using them for a slightly more scholarly purpose — studying bowhead whales in the Canadian Arctic.
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Orange you glad that the election down South is almost over? UBC research, however, is never done and won’t make your blood pressure rise as much. Here are a number of notable studies the university has churned out to distract you from the election.
Meeting like-minded people through yoga, a cappella, choir, university courses and Girl Guides has convinced me that there will be like-minded people anywhere I go — I just have to have the guts to seek them out.
The titular Blake is played by Dave Johns, a standup comic trading in his comic craft for a more tragic role. He performs opposite single mum Katie, a character forced by the system into roles like mother, carer, thief and prostitute.
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.
At university, it’s not surprising when you see students gulping coffee out of litre-sized thermoses, or overhear them say they’re foregoing sleep and how the only thing that’s keeping them alive is the trente Starbucks.
The midterm season is in full swing and in the midst of it all, our normal routines can slip away. One of the first things to go is usually our sense of style, with tight jeans being replaced with sweatpants. But it doesn’t have to be like this.
I have returned — summoned back once more to carry out my burdensome mandate of educating the masses of hungry, cultureless despots under the tragic illusion that wine can be consumed with ice and that Michael Bay makes good, innocently fun movies.
Some might say this would be a great time for a reading break! The UBC academic calendar, however, would disagree. As one of the only universities in Canada without a fall reading break, we’ll have to cope in other ways.
The cost for the Commuter Student Hostel is $35 per night. To reserve a room, students simply book online and then make their payment in credit card, debit card, or cash. Availability fluctuates depending on the day and time of year.
The team think your phone could prescribe you drugs in the not-so-distant future. By taking a sample of your saliva, it may be one day possible to differentiate the drugs that will cure you from the ones that will kill you.
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.
UBC’s hidden garden oasis is the perfect place to hold hands, take a peaceful walk and get away from the stress of student life. Forget your worries among the canopy of trees on the Greenheart Treewalk.
Magic mushrooms, psychedelics, psilocybin mushrooms – call them what you want. We all want to talk about them. Buckle up class, it’s going to be a wild trip. Shrooms are one of the more popular hallucinogenic drugs in Canada.
This article details not only how much executives at different schools are paid, but their varying responsibilities, and the sizes of the student populations they represent — and where that money comes from in the first place.