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UBC professor Christine Schreyer, (second from right) has combined her passion for restoring languages with her Hollywood connections. While working on her new documentary, she brought film director Britton Watkins, cinematographer Josh Feldman together with Nicole Gordon and Louise Gordon with the Taku River Tlingit.

UBC anthropologist helps create documentary on the art of language construction

By Patty Wellborn on July 28, 2016

A UBC professor is combining her love of languages, and her Hollywood connections, to help create a new documentary film.

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UBC psychology professor Stephen Porter

Faces aren’t always to be believed when it comes to honesty

By Patty Wellborn on July 27, 2016

UBC researchers have determined that certain facial features, not the expression, influence whether people think someone is trustworthy.

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Carey Doberstein, assistant professor of political science

Do think-tanks matter? A UBC professor says 'think again'

By Patty Wellborn on July 22, 2016

A UBC professor is suggesting government policy makers and advisors need to do a re-think when it comes to giving validity to reports coming across their desks.

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UBC PhD candidate Taylor Holland has spent the better part of three years studying soil samples from vineyards throughout the Okanagan.

UBC researchers determine vineyards adversely affect soil quality

By Patty Wellborn on July 14, 2016

Biologists from UBC’s Okanagan campus are digging under vineyards to see if the Okanagan’s grape industry is affecting soil quality.

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UBC biology associate professor Deanna Gibson says some fats are getting a bad rap and can actually help protect us from inflammatory diseases.

Some dietary fats still getting a bad rap, says UBC researcher

By Patty Wellborn on July 7, 2016

UBC research shows that some of the fats we consume are getting a raw deal when it comes to deciding what’s good for us.

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Craig Nichol holds an unlikely tool in the battle against climate change, wood mulch.

Wood mulch can help in climate change fight

By Matthew Grant on June 28, 2016

In addition to looking nice, covering soil with wood mulch can actually help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, UBC research shows.

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Student researchers at work in an engineering lab at UBC's Okanagan campus.

UBC celebrates national research grants

By Patty Wellborn on June 24, 2016

Biologists, engineers, statisticians, chemists and a number of grad students at UBC’s Okanagan campus will benefit from federal research grants announced Thursday.

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UBC Associate Professor Lael Parrott used a model system to show slower ship speeds will reduce vessel-whale collisions.

Slowing down ships saves whales

By Matthew Grant on June 16, 2016

Endangered whale species and the marine traffic that threatens them can co-exist, UBC research shows.

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Bighorn sheep like steep rocky terrain, a habit often intersected by highways. Photo by Tanis Gieselman, with the Okanagan Collaborative Conservation Program.

UBC develops tool to predict how bighorn sheep react to human development

By Patty Wellborn on June 15, 2016

A UBC Okanagan researcher has created a tool to help map bighorn sheep movement in an effort to monitor how they respond to human development in their habitat.

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Dr. Roberta Bondar and UBC Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Okanagan campus Deborah Buszard pose together after Thursday’s ceremony.

Astronaut and water scientist conferred with honorary degrees at UBC Okanagan

By Patty Wellborn on June 10, 2016

UBC Okanagan’s courtyard is where pomp and circumstance meet shouts of joy and colourful festivities as hundreds of freshly-minted graduates celebrate their accomplishments at the university’s convocation ceremonies.

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