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Elko Daily Free Press
Montana’s tailings storage regulations informing global efforts

Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining professor emeritus Dr. Dirk Van Zyl commented on Montana’s tailings storage regulations.

July 6, 2023
City News Vancouver
What areas of Metro Vancouver are the smelliest? UBC researchers want to know

Mechanical engineering researcher Sahil Bhandari and collaborators have launched “Smell Vancouver” app to track the weirdest odours around Metro Vancouver.

July 3, 2023
The Tyee
How Canada’s housing woes became international art

SALA associate professor Dr. Matthew Soules commented on exhibiting Canada’s housing crisis at the Venice Biennale.

July 3, 2023
JEC Composites
UBC researchers turn black bitumen into green carbon fibres

Materials engineer Dr. Yasmine Abdin and her colleagues have developed a way to convert bitumen into commercial-grade carbon fibres.

July 2, 2023
Business in Vancouver
Can infrastructure keep pace with immigration?

Civil engineering professor Dr. Nemkumar Banthia commented on the ability of B.C.’s infrastructure to support newcomers.

June 30, 2023
CTV Vancouver
Creating national standards for drug education

Nursing professor Dr. Emily Jenkins discussed how to best support children and youth when it comes to substance use education and intervention.

June 30, 2023
Composites World
UBC engineers successfully develop carbon fiber from bitumen

Materials engineering assistant professor Dr. Yasmine Abdin and her collaborators have turned bitumen into carbon fiber, a crucial product for the energy transition.

June 30, 2023
CBC
Canada's first hydrogen train is taking passengers

UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove commented on the functionality of hydrogen trains in Canada.

June 28, 2023
BNN Bloomberg
Mining companies betting on autonomous technology to make dangerous jobs safer

Mining engineering professor Dr. Scott Dunbar discussed automation in mining.

June 26, 2023
CBC
The B.C. push to relocate homes rather than demolish them

A study by school of architecture and landscape architecture's professor Joseph Dahmen forecasted that 25 per cent of homes in Vancouver could be demolished by 2030 due to a surge in property values.

June 24, 2023

UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Musqueam; which means 'People of the River Grass') and Syilx Okanagan Nation. The land has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam and Syilx peoples, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next.