Applied science research groups at UBC showed off their work during a visit from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier last week.
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On paper, BC’s province-wide sexual education curriculum covers everything from contraception to conflict resolution. But, according to a team of UBC undergraduate researchers, cracks start to show when you look at what’s actually happening in classrooms.
For the past 25 years, UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) have investigated the detection, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
At a rather unusual time for a UBC farm visit on May 25, a group of about 20 people, mostly students, gathered at the gates at 9:30 p.m. for a walk called “Goth Butterflies — Shedding Moonlight on Nocturnal Insects.”
Mycology is the study of fungi, the enigmatic branch on the tree of life that produces those mysterious mushrooms that pop up around campus in the spring and fall.
Dr. Eduardo Jovel has spent years of his academic career in labs researching the chemical composition of Indigenous plant medicine — work which stems from his Pipil-Mayan heritage.
Vancouver Pride brings hundreds into the streets each summer to celebrate decades of 2SLGBTQIA+ protest for the right to be ourselves in public.
As Vancouver cruises into its summer crescendo, the warm breeze that makes the perfect beach day can also ratchet the city into a public health emergency.
A class with UBC botany instructor Rachel Wilson will not only have the usual labs and coursework, but also includes an ecology meme contest where only the fittest and funniest memes survive to be featured on the Instagram page @lit_ecology.
Vancouver’s first hyperlocal weather network, Weatherhood, launched on Wednesday July 19. The project is a collaboration between Glacier Media and UBC’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences.
Is it possible to masturbate too much? Can pregnant people experience sexual desire? Does good sex always involve orgasms?
On August 27, the UBC Astronomy Club invited stargazers to the UBC Botanical Garden for a chance to look at Saturn at its brightest.
Under Saskatchewan skies thick with wildfire smoke in July, a bright blue UBC Forestry truck blaring country music headed west. While particles of burned forests clouded the sun, the researchers behind the wheel set out to understand how to help forests regenerate after the flames cool.
UBC Quantum Club President and third-year engineering physics student Lily Watt said the conference will provide students with learning and networking opportunities within the growing field of quantum technologies.
Welcome to the age of the ‘Plasticene’, a world so infected with plastics that they’ve embedded themselves in our fossil record. Microplastics are infiltrating global water systems, causing scientists, activists and governments to sound the alarm.