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Gord Binsted wears micrometers, instruments used in his research about conscious awareness of body movement.

Human brain wired to avoid information overload

By Matthew Grant on June 23, 2016

The conscious part of the human brain is actually more in tune with body parts that are not moving, UBC research shows.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, Research, School of Health and Exercise Sciences

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.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged BRAES, Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Research

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.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged BRAES, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Research

Barbara Rutherford has been examining research that compares how both sides of the brain work together. And when they don't.

UBC study examines brain performance and left-brain, right-brain cooperation

By Patty Wellborn on June 8, 2016

New research out of UBC suggests that the two halves of the brain are not always better than one.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Learning, Psychology, Research

Susan Holtzman stands in front of the 'rainbow staircase' of inclusion at UBC's Okanagan campus.

Men who have sex with men in small cities less likely to be tested for HIV

By Patty Wellborn on June 2, 2016

Men who live outside major Canadian cities and have sex with other men are less likely to get an HIV test than their metropolitan counterparts, a UBC study shows.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Health, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Psychology, Research

UBC student Heather Hackett and her supervisor Assoc. Prof. Glen Foster.

Student wins international award at major conference

By Patty Wellborn on May 27, 2016

Student wins international award at major conference

Posted in Media Releases, Uncategorized | Tagged Biology, Faculty of Health and Social Development, Research

UBC's Anant Parghi (left) and Shahria Alam hold up a piece of 'green' concrete and some of the glass that helped make it.

UBC researchers discover cure for ‘concrete cancer’

By Matthew Grant on May 25, 2016

UBC researchers discover cure for ‘concrete cancer’

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Research, School of Engineering

Cultures of ‘Denial’ workshop at UBC tackles climate skepticism

Cultures of ‘Denial’ workshop at UBC tackles climate skepticism

By Patty Wellborn on May 24, 2016

Cultures of ‘Denial’ workshop at UBC tackles climate skepticism

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Research | 2 Responses

A bumble bee is busy inspecting mouse ear chickweed

UBC professor encourages community to help local bees

By Patty Wellborn on May 24, 2016

UBC’s Public Art Pollinator Pasture Project and the UBC/Okanagan Regional Library’s “Pollinizing Sessions” host two events that give “how-to” advice and experience about creating pollinator-friendly habitats.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Arts, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Research

Solomon Tesfamariam

UBC research targets oil and gas pipeline safety

By Matthew Grant on May 20, 2016

A recent UBC study could make it easier for oil and gas companies to prevent pipeline failures.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, Faculty of Management, Research, School of Engineering

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