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CTV Morning Live
New Action Guide Empowers People with Dementia

UBC researchers collaborated with a group of people living with dementia to develop an anti-stigma toolkit, offering an action guide to bolster community engagement and bridge healthcare support gaps. Nursing professor Dr. Alison Phinney was interviewed.

September 15, 2023
Elko Daily Free Press
Tackling tailings with microbes

Chemical and biological engineering professor Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav discussed using microbes to clean up tailings water, a by-product of mining.

September 13, 2023
Curiocity
9 ways to observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in and around Vancouver

UBC Applied Science and Land and Food Systems are hosting an intergenerational march on Sep 30 to mark Orange Shirt Day.

September 13, 2023
Pulp and Paper Canada
Top 10 under 40: Meet Heather Trajano from University of British Columbia

Chemical and Biological Engineering associate professor Heather Trajano named to Top 10 Under 40 by Pulp & Paper Canada.

September 13, 2023
Architectural Review
In practice: Architects Against Housing Alienation on building an equitable housing system

SALA faculty Sara Stevens, Matthew Soules and Tijana Vujosevic write about how to decommodify and decolonize housing in Canada.

September 12, 2023
Healthing
What it feels like: 'Don't give up' on life with Alzheimer's disease

Nursing adjunct professor Dr. Heather Cooke commented on the use of drugs Lecanemab and Donanemab to treat dementia in Canada.

September 11, 2023
The Globe and Mail
Researchers simulating wildfire evacuations for five Western Canadian communities

Civil engineering professor Dr. Amy Kim is part of a study that will survey residents in the Alberta communities of Canmore and Whitecourt and the B.C. towns of Quesnel, Salmon Arm and Nelson on evacuations and decisions in disasters.

September 10, 2023
NBC Miami
How is the Miami River cleaned? New technologies to eradicate microplastics

Media mentioned a device developed by forestry and chemical and biological engineering researchers that uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water.

September 8, 2023
The Globe and Mail (subscription)
Vancouver parents raise alarm as school board looks to close schools in growing neighbourhoods

SCARP professor Dr. Michael Hooper said the Vancouver School Board’s plan to close schools ignores the massive housing projects planned for Vancouver.

September 8, 2023
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.

September 8, 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.