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How AI is helping detect types of endometrial cancer

Healthing | | Media coverage

SBME's Dr. Ali Bashashati and his team developed a machine learning model to evaluate and understand sample images from patients with cervical cancer. 

Advancing low-carbon building materials for construction

Tech Briefs | | Media coverage

School of Engineering Professor Dr. Sumi Siddiqua's research group is investigating low-carbon building materials for climate-resilient infrastructure.

The future of construction: From building booms to control rooms

UBC Okanagan News | | Media coverage

SOE's Dr. Qian Chen is partnering with industry to modernize methods, materials and employment to meet the world’s extraordinary housing demands.

‘It broke my heart’: Conservation groups say spill at Yukon gold mine is distressing

APTN News | | Media coverage

Professor Emeritus Dr. Marcello Veiga (Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering) commented on the environmental impacts of the cyanide spill at the Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon.

UBC Faculty of Applied Science 2024 appointments

| Announcement

Dr. Sheryl Staub-French, Dr. Charles Haynes and Dr. Scott McDougall are leading three engineering departments or program, effective July 1, 2024.

Advancing In Her Career, From Site Inspections To Project Management

| Spotlight

Rebecca's experience in engineering and how her degree helped her in her current role at WSP.

Integrating Interests: The Road To Becoming A Geological Engineer

| Spotlight

Taylor's journey in geological engineering and how her co-op has prepared her for the future.

UBC mechanical engineering professor appointed to Order of Canada

| Announcement

Dr. Yusuf Altintas, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC’s Vancouver campus, is one of four UBC community members to be named an Officer of the Order of Canada this week.

Metro Vancouver set to OK contract for Stanley Park water main project

Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage

Civil engineering Adjunct Professor Dr. Troy Vassos said the water main that runs beneath Stanley Park remains critical for the region. 

Germany needs hydrogen in its energy mix—can Canada deliver?

Business in Vancouver | | Media coverage

UBC Okanagan School of Engineering's Dr. Kamiel Gabriel said heat waste from industrial processes could be used to produce hydrogen from water.

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