In the Media
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Hakai MagazineThe price of paper
Chemical engineering and wood science professor Dr. Orlando Rojas noted the big shift in making pulp and paper mills more diversified.
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Journal of Commerce
The big one: Victoria’s housing stock and the next earthquake
Armin Bebamzadeh, a research associate with the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility at the UBC, gave an overview of some of the risks facing Victoria’s housing stock.
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Ubyssey
Students paint engineering cairn in honour of Transgender Day of Remembrance
UBC's LGBTQ+ engineering club, "Gears and Queers", paints the Engineering Cairn for Trans Day of Remembrance to commemorate those who were lost and those who live through violence and transphobia.
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Daily Mail
Canada to expand assisted dying laws
Nursing professor Dr. Sally Thorne commented on the new expansion to Canada's law on medically assisted dying.
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Innovation News Network
A new paradigm for Canadian battery metals supply
Dr. W. Scott Dunbar, professor of mining engineering, examined the actions needed for Canada to secure its place as a global supplier of battery metals.
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Globe and Mail
Nature-made
UBC's BioProducts Institute (BPI) is dedicated to unlocking the full potential of nature-based materials. BPI director and professor of chemical and biological engineering Dr. Orlando Rojas discussed materials from nature that can compete with engineered materials.
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Architects Newspaper
A radical politics of hope
In light of the death of Mike Davis, who was a writer, urban theories and political activist, associate professor at the School Architecture and Landscape Architecture Matthew Soules paid tribute to Davis's work.
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CBC Quirks and Quarks
There will be 8 billion of us, and that’s already too many
Professor emeritus Dr. Bill Rees from the School of Community and Regional Planning) discussed the exponential growth of the world's population and how population impacts are inextricably linked with consumption.
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Daily Hive
Ultra-luxurious home owners in Vancouver pay peanuts in income tax: UBC study
Paul Boniface Akaabre, PhD candidate at the School of Community and Regional Planning, and colleagues found that owners of Greater Vancouver’s expensive homes pay a “tiny” amount of income taxes relative to their wealth in a recent study.
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Business in Vancouver
Has BC built back better?
Kees Lokman, from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, suggested that under-sized culverts be replaced in order to prevent future flood damage to highways and railroads.