In the Media
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Vancouver SunBook review: Little book brimming with big ideas on affordable housing
Postmedia featured a book by Patrick Condon, a professor at the school of architecture and landscape architecture in UBC's faculty of applied science, that reflects on the lessons about inequality that we learned at great expense during the current pandemic.
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Business in Vancouver
Getting passenger rail on track poses steep challenges
Patrick Condon, a professor at the school of architecture and landscape architecture in UBC's faculty of applied science, spoke about restoring passenger travel to some of B.C. rail lines.
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Business in Vancouver
Vancouver urges residents to download emergency alert app
A UBC-developed disaster preparedness app for Vancouver Island was mentioned in a story on a similar app for the city of Vancouver. The UBC app was developed by Dr. Ryan Reynolds, a postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of applied science’s school of community and regional planning.
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Castanet
Time to recalibrate: This is a perfect time of year too recalibrate one's life
Corinne Crockett, an adjunct professor at UBCO’s school of nursing reflects on how the holiday season is a good time to check in with ourselves and re-evaluate what means the most to us.
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The Tyee
It’s a perfect storm of stress. How to cope
UBC experts Dr. Joseph Puyat (school of population and public health), Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc (school of nursing), and Andrew Baxter (faculty of education), discussed ways to lower distress as we enter our second pandemic winter.
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The Tyee
Vancouver’s dramatic new plan for broadway: Five questions
Patrick Condon, a professor at the school of architecture and landscape architecture in UBC’s faculty of applied science, wrote an article about the City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan and five key questions it leaves unanswered.
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The Globe and Mail
Flooding in B.C. has overwhelmed the sewage systems of smaller communities
Dr. Pierre Bérubé, a civil engineering professor at UBC’s faculty of applied science, was quoted in an article about the damage caused by the flooding on wastewater treatment plants.
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The Tyee
B.C. has a new flood strategy in the works
Kees Lokman, a professor at the school of architecture and landscape architecture at UBC’s faculty of applied science, discussed the need for B.C. municipalities to create a holistic plan to help coordinate climate change adaptation and protect against future floods.
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National Post
UBC post-doctoral student wins $1.9 million from Prince William, Elon Musk competitions
Media reported that UBC postdoctoral chemical and biological engineering student Kevin Kung's invention has won nearly $2M prize money from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s inaugural Earthshot Prize, as well as from the XPrize and Musk Foundation’s Carbon Removal competition.
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The Globe and Mail
Meet Carl Hansen, the scientist-turned-CEO behind AbCellera’s life-saving COVID-19 treatment
The Globe and Mail featured Dr. Carl Hansen, who co-founded AbCellera at UBC, where he taught in a cross-disciplinary biomedical research lab.