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The price of paper
Hakai Magazine | | Media coverage
Chemical engineering and wood science professor Dr. Orlando Rojas noted the big shift in making pulp and paper mills more diversified.
Canada to expand assisted dying laws
Daily Mail | | Media coverage
Nursing professor Dr. Sally Thorne commented on the new expansion to Canada's law on medically assisted dying.
The big one: Victoria’s housing stock and the next earthquake
Journal of Commerce | | Media coverage
Armin Bebamzadeh, a research associate with the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility at the UBC, gave an overview of some of the risks facing Victoria’s housing stock.
A new paradigm for Canadian battery metals supply
Innovation News Network | | Media coverage
Dr. W. Scott Dunbar, professor of mining engineering, examined the actions needed for Canada to secure its place as a global supplier of battery metals.
Nature-made
Globe and Mail | | Media coverage
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…
Students paint engineering cairn in honour of Transgender Day of Remembrance
Ubyssey | | Media coverage
UBC's LGBTQ+ engineering club, "Gears and Queers", paints the Engineering Cairn for Trans Day of Remembrance to commemorate those who were lost and those who live through violence and transphobia.
A radical politics of hope
Architects Newspaper | | Media coverage
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.
UBC Okanagan Engineering leads research to explore new net zero home
| Announcement
UBCO School of Engineering collaborating with Okanagan College, community partners, to create an energy-efficient, high-performance home to achieve net zero energy.
There will be 8 billion of us, and that’s already too many
CBC Quirks and Quarks | | Media coverage
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.
Ultra-luxurious home owners in Vancouver pay peanuts in income tax: UBC study
Daily Hive | | Media coverage
Paul Boniface Akaabre, PhD candidate at the School of Community and Regional Planning, and colleagues found that owners of Greater Vancouver’s expensive homes pay a “tiny” amount of income taxes relative to their wealth in…