New CRCs focus on software security, electrocatalysts for carbon recycling, isotope geochemistry, quantum systems, and ...

In his short life, Kip the coyote with the one bad leg, became an unofficial mascot on UBC’s Vancouver campus.

UBC has received a pledge from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. to provide $1.15 million in funding to support research in High-Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging technologies. HDR display technology replaces the ...

Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world's coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study ...

Roger Beckie -- an internationally recognized groundwater hydrologist -- has been appointed head of the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. The appointment is effective July 1, 2014 ...

A prostate cancer drug bio-prospected and developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) is entering human clinical trials. Developed by Marianne Sadar, ...

A post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Zoology has conducted the first in-nature experiments that show environmental adaption accelerates the development of new species. "As far as advancing ...

UBC-led exploration and geological research at major sites in Yukon and Alaska has received $557,670 in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The ...

UBC researchers have identified the world’s largest marine virus--an unusually complex ‘mimi-like virus’ that infects an ecologically important and widespread planktonic predator. Cafeteria ...

UBC unveiled the Department of Chemistry’s new Shared Instrument Facility today, a ground-breaking learning space designed to provide undergraduate students with unprecedented access to highly ...

Stephen Withers, whose lab is developing new ways to synthesize carbohydrate-based therapeutics, is one of four new Canada Research Chairs (CRC) named to UBC this spring. The professor of Chemistry, ...