UBC engineering students’ aircraft model features BC wood in international competition
Sitka spruce key to UBC AeroDesign’s 2022 and 2023 aircraft models.
Incoming UBC student wins $30K Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship
Vancouver-based Sidhant Sidana is one of 10 computer science and engineering students to receive $30,000 from the Amazon Future Engineer scholarship program towards their university education.
UBC Nursing professor elected Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow
Dr. Sabrina Wong has been elected as one of the 71 new fellows receiving the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Award (CAHS), and one of four nurses.
Bacteria-based batteries? UBC engineering design teams offer students chance to innovate
Students in UBC Rocket collaborated to create a new type of fuel cell. UBC Rocket is one of over 30 engineering design teams that students can join.
UBC Engineering students set to launch ‘sailbot’ to Hawaii
Raye is the first autonomous, robotic sailboat designed by students to cross the Pacific.
UBC SALA to study new faculty and staff homes targeting Passive House certification
The first of its kind on UBC’s Vancouver campus, Evolve will provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the benefits and trade-offs of Passive House construction for multi-family residential buildings.
UBC Engineering deploys mobile air pollution laboratory
PLUME, which stands for Portable Laboratory for Understanding Human-Made Emissions was developed by Dr. Naomi Zimmerman, a professor of Mechanical Engineering who studies air quality and its impacts on health and the environment.
UBC Engineers develop nano-copper to quickly kill superbugs
“By using this new formulation, we’re killing pathogens before patients become infected and need to use antibiotics against them, slowing the rise of antibiotic resistance."
