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The man who made the suburbs white

Slate Magazine | | Media coverage

SALA professor Sara Stevens was quoted in an article about American developer J.C. Nichols. 

Roll down your banners, take down your flags

e-flux Architecture | | Media coverage

SALA associate professor Dr. Matthew Soules is one member of a collective campaigning against housing alienation at the Venice Biennale.

Researchers develop cheaper way to make carbon fibers from oil sands byproducts

American Society of Mechanical Engineers | | Media coverage

Materials engineering assistant professor Dr. Yasmine Abdin has developed a method to turn asphaltene into carbon fibre.

UBC students bring Mario Kart to life with robotics competition

CTV News | | Media coverage

UBC engineering students brought Mario Kart to life by creating autonomous robots to race around a track. 

What B.C. is learning about earthquakes from the 2023 disaster in Turkey

The Weather Network | | Media coverage

A team of civil engineering researchers are investigating why some buildings collapsed and not others during the February 2023 earthquake in Turkey.

The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?

Global News | | Media coverage

Civil engineering professor Dr. Nemkumar Banthia commented on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 

Pushing to protect the marbled murrelet

Canadian Geographic | | Media coverage

Chemical and biological engineering professor emerita Dr. Royann Petrell and others are calling on the government to increase wildlife habitat areas in Vancouver Island old-growth forests to save the threatened marbled murrelet. 

Ottawa's big LRT fix is redesigning train parts. What about the track?

CBC | | Media coverage

UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove commented on the shutdown of Ottawa’s LRT system.  

Vancouver man wins award for work aimed at improving air quality

Surrey Now-Leader | | Media coverage

Chemical and biological engineering postdoctoral researcher Dr. Kevin Kung received the Mitacs Environmental Entrepreneur Award. 

Artificial intelligence and the future of modular and pre-fab construction

Daily Commercial News | | Media coverage

Civil engineering research associate Puyan Zadeh commented on how AI could effect the general and modular construction industry.

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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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