In the Media
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The Province
How to really change zoning to increase housing affordability
SALA professor Patrick Condon was quoted in an opinion piece about housing affordability in Vancouver.
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Vancouver Sun
UBC project looks to bridge the gap between climate worry and action
Taylor Legere, a sustainability scholar and a master’s student in landscape architecture, has been researching better ways to communicate how climate change is affecting the city of Vancouver.
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CBC
Vancouver's architecture, by design, was never meant to handle extreme heat
Architecture professors Sara Stevens and Patrick Condon said that current construction standards in B.C. are not suitable for extreme heat.
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Castanet
Does the Thompson-Okanagan need light-rail commuter train?
UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove pitched a hydrogen powered train that would service the Okanagan.
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CBC News
Communities in B.C.'s Okanagan grapple with highway disruption caused by rock slide
UBCO engineering professor Dr. Dwayne Tannant said Highway 97 is unlikely to open for the long weekend due to ongoing instability of the nearby slope.
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Global News
Are self-driving cars safe? A UBC study says British Columbians aren’t too sure
Civil engineering professor Dr. Alex Bigazzi and PhD student Gurdiljot Singh Gill conducted a study which found that more than 40 per cent of British Columbians believe pedestrians will be less safe with self-driving cars on roadways.
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Burnaby Now
Residents in these Burnaby buildings are at 'high-risk' during extreme heat
Engineering master’s student Oluwasina Agunbiade developed a toolkit for retrofitting at-risk buildings to better withstand extreme heat.
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Kelowna Capital News
B.C. wildfires fuelling conspiracy theories
School of community and regional planning PhD student Wes Regan said traumatic events can lead people to conspiracies to try and make sense of what’s happening.
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Space.com
I flew weightlessly on a parabolic flight to see incredible student science soar
Members of the UBC Rocket student engineering design team were among a group of Canadian students that took part in science experiments set up by National Research Council Canada.
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Business in Vancouver
AI adoption may expose businesses to cybersecurity risks
Electrical and computer engineering professor Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman said there’s possibility for attacks in AI-based systems, even more than classic software systems.