UBC Applied Science

In the Media

Grist
We're in debt to the Earth. How can we repay it?

SCARP researchers Drs. Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees created a metric called the ecological footprint in the early 1990s.

August 12, 2024
Business in Vancouver
BC smart-glass developer Miru lands $27M Series A financing

CHBE Professor Dr. Curtis Berlinguette founded Miru, which came out of the Creative Destruction Lab.

August 9, 2024
UBC Sustainability
Five Applied Science members receive Sustainability Education Fellows Grants

Drs. Sara Jacobs, Tamara Etmannski, Paul Lusina, Christoph Sielmann and James Connolly received the grant for incorporating sustainability content in their teaching.

August 9, 2024
CTV News Vancouver
UBC students compete to build best burger-serving robots

UBC Engineering Physics students took part in a cooking competition using autonomous robots inspired by the video game Overcooked.

August 8, 2024
Journal of Commerce
Construction tech adoption ‘more visionary than realistic’ without necessary advancements

SOE's Dr. Qian Chen discusses the future of technology in construction.

August 7, 2024
The Globe and Mail (Subscription)
Ticketmaster privacy breach raises question of identity monitoring services: Are they worth it?

ECE professor Konstantin Beznosov discussed the usefulness of identity monitoring services.

August 6, 2024
BNN Bloomberg
Is Singapore's housing model a realistic solution for Canada's affordability woes?

SCARP alumnus Dr. Louisa-May Khoo commented on the similarities between the BC Builds housing program and Singapore’s housing model.

August 6, 2024
Vancouver Is Awesome
33 plants that will shade you from BC's increasingly hot summers

SALA Professor Susan Herrington co-authored a new BC Shade Lookbook that guides readers on the best trees and shrubs to ward off incoming heat.

August 1, 2024
Vancouver Is Awesome
UBC researchers run bad smell test on Metro Vancouverites

Engineering researchers have released the first results of their Smell Vancouver app, which highlighted how collecting odour data can inform air quality management policies.

August 1, 2024
CTV News Vancouver
Evacuation orders, flood warnings issued after landslide blocks BC's Chilcotin River

Dr. Davide Elmo (Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering) discussed how to remediate the damage caused by a landslide near BC’s Farwell Canyon.

July 31, 2024

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.