In the Media
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The ProvinceConcussions ended Scott Ramsay's hockey career — but they've become his passion as a nurse
Scott Ramsay, who graduates from UBC this week with a PhD in nursing, has been working to intervene in the lives of youth struggling with brain injury, after battling brain injury himself.
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The WalrusHow much further can mining go?
Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering professors Dr. Scott Dunbar and Dr. Ilija Miskovic commented on deep mining.
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CTV NewsAI could help address B.C.'s housing crisis. Here's how.
Structural engineering professor Dr. Tony Yang and his team at the Smart Structures Lab developed AI robots that can perform basic construction tasks on site.
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The WalrusThe future of mining might be smaller than you think
Mining professor Dr. John Steen discussed how the transition to green energy is increasing the demand for metals and mining and how we can manage that demand.
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Interesting EngineeringUBC, Honda researchers develop robot arm with human skin-like sensors
Electrical and computer engineering researchers Dr. Mirza Saquib Sarwar and Dr. John Madden co-developed a new soft sensor with Honda researchers, which opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics.
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BC BusinessEntrepreneur of the Year 2023: Tamer Mohamed is finding fact in science fiction with Aspect Biosystems
Tamer Mohamed, UBC electrical and computer engineering alum, is named Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 by BC Business.
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Undark MagazineBook excerpt: The future of mining is deeper, darker, and riskier
Mining professor Dr. Scott Dunbar commented on the future of deep mining.
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The UbysseyA knife? No!: UBC Volcan forges blades and community
UBC Volcan's co-presidents Connor Gingera and Kerrie Ye speak about their engineering design team and the collaborative effort that goes into making their blades.
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Canadian Mining JournalWaste is a failure of the imagination
Vikramaditya Yadav, director of the Master of Engineering Leadership in sustainable process engineering, and associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering, talks about technology that is challenging the conventional notion that mining must generate waste.
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CIM MagazineUBC research team developing new sensors to test mineral content
A team of researchers from UBC has been awarded $520,000 in funding to develop new sensors that will better identify and classify the content of mineral core samples. The research team is co-led by Bern Klein at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering and David Jones at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute.