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Tropini named Cifar Azrieli Global Scholar
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UBC’s Carolina Tropini, an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been named as one of fourteen inspiring early-career researchers named across five CIFAR research programs.
Saving the Avengers at the 19th annual Engineering Physics robot competition
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Last week, good and evil faced off in “Robo-Avengers: Infinity Loop,” an Avengers-themed robot competition at UBC. Sixteen teams of second-year UBC Engineering Physics students — eight representing the evil Thanos, the other eight his good twin, “…
Projects co-led by APSC researchers to receive nearly 2M in federal health research funding
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UBC Engineering researchers and their collaborators in the UBC Faculty of Medicine will receive almost $2 million in funding from the Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program, a Government of Canada initiative that supports innovative,…
David Riendl and Szandra Temesvari receive 2019 McEwen Teacher Award
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Established by Dr. James McEwen (BASc ’71, PhD ’75), P.Eng, and his family in 2011, the McEwen Family Teacher Recognition Award is presented annually by the Faculty of Applied Science to recognize teachers that go above and beyond to ensure the…
Tips for boosting your citation count, inspired by machine learning
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How can researchers boost the number of citations their papers receive? Mohamed Elgendi, a senior postdoctoral fellow in UBC’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and an adjunct professor in UBC’s Department of Electrical and Computer…
UBC, U Paris researchers discover new way to recycle CO2
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University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of Paris researchers have used an abundant and low-cost catalyst to efficiently transform carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a stable, industrial gas. The research — published in Science —…
A visit from the University of Twente
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Earlier this month, 26 students and two professors from the University of Twente (UT) visited UBC. Located in Enschede, the Netherlands, UT is home to such facilities as the Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics and the MESA+ Institute for…
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-…
Scott Dunbar reappointed head of Mining Engineering
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Scott Dunbar’s appointment as head of the UBC Department of Mining Engineering has been extended by three years. His new term will begin on July 1, 2019. Under Dunbar’s leadership, the department has grown from strength to strength. A new two-…
2019 Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Service
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Six members of the APSC community have received Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Service for their outstanding contributions to the Faculty. The three staff recipients are Karen Seddon, Michelle Tierney and Dave Torok, while the three faculty…