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BC has 4,265 unfilled nursing jobs - it's one reason why ERs are closing
The Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
UBC SALA students bring resilience and relief through bespoke water fountains and misters
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Fuki no Mizu is an initiative that provides this year's Powell Street Festival attendees drinking water and mist for cooling through pavilion structures. This was designed by a team of UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture…
UBC Engineers develop nano-copper to quickly kill superbugs
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A team of UBC researchers led by Dr. Amanda Clifford (she/her), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering, have designed a nano-copper coating that includes bacteria-killing nanoscale features and zinc.
‘We are still not prepared’: B.C. care home advocates call for action amid recommendations
Abby News | | Media coverage
CIHR Project Grants awarded to UBC Applied Science research on cancer therapy and heart disease
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$1.86 million has been awarded to two UBC Applied Science-affiliated projects through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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UBC Nursing launches art exhibit: 'Locked Up: The Soul Speaks Out'
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From July 23 through August 19 the impact of a project that distributed 756 “art and reciprocity kits” to several prisons across BC and the Yukon will be showcased as an art exhibit in the Downtown Eastside.
Research paper from UBC Nursing disrupts stereotypes about men
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The popular stereotype that men don’t want support during a breakup, separation or divorce is simply not true, according to a new paper by researchers at the UBC school of nursing.
'Devastating disease' that impacts young children could be treated with cancer drug
CTV | | Media coverage