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Fire & Flood, Facing Two Extremes: Why B.C. can’t always build its way out of risks
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
Landscape architecture professor Kees Lokman was quoted in a Vancouver Sun series on disaster planning and adaptation in BC.
Gelatin could hold the key to developing electronic ‘smart skins’: UBC study
Lake Cowichan Gazette | | Media coverage
UBC engineering researchers are working on creating smart skin that mimics the sensing capabilities of natural skin using hydrogels. Professor Dr. John Madden and former graduate student Yuta Dobashi were quoted.
UBC Applied Science grad students receive Killam teaching awards
| Announcement
Three teaching assistants in UBC Applied Science received Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards.
UBC Engineering profs receive UBC Faculty Research Awards
| Announcement
Three UBC Engineering researchers received 2021 UBC Faculty Research Awards.
UBC Engineering students awarded UBC Premier Undergraduate and Wesbrook Scholarships
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Four UBC Engineering students — Phoebe Cheung, Tyler Lum, Cailin Ringstrom and Coralie Tcheune — have been named recipients of UBC Premier Undergraduate and Wesbrook Scholarships.
High-tech mouthguard tracks head impacts during varsity hockey playoffs
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A high-tech mouthguard worn by Thunderbird hockey players is recording impacts, capturing data for UBC researchers who study concussions. The study is led by Dr. Lyndia Wu, an expert in brain injury biomechanics at UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science.
Bhushan Gopaluni appointed Vice-Provost and AVP, Faculty Planning, pro tem
| Announcement
The role of vice-provost and associate vice-president, faculty planning, is responsible for the academic leadership of enrolment planning and management, stewardship of existing and new academic space and capital projects, and has an important role…
UBC Engineering’s Vikram Yadav named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40
Indo-Canadian Voice | | Media coverage
Dr. Vikram Yadav, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at UBC, has been named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for his highly interdisciplinary and impactful innovation portfolio.
Tamara Etmannski named co-director of Environmental Engineering program
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Tamara Etmannski, academic director of the Master of Engineering Leadership and Master of Health Leadership and Policy programs in the Faculty of Applied Science, has been appointed co-director of the Environmental Engineering program. Her three-…