In the Media

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • CTV News

    B.C. researchers on mission to prevent malnutrition in space

    Food scientist Dr. John Frostad, an assistant professor in chemical and biological engineering, is spearheading efforts at UBC to develop techniques to keep Omega-3 fatty acids in astronauts during future space missions.

  • 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.

  • 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.

UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory 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.

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