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Castanet Kamloops
UBC Okanagan researcher is lifting virus detection to the next level

UBC engineering researcher Dr. Sepideh Pakpour is developing new technology using magnetic levitation to collect, purify and detect viruses in the air.

August 7, 2023
Research2Reality
Would you rather get there more quickly or more safely?

Civil engineering professor Dr. Tarek Sayed is developing a new algorithm approach which identifies the safest possible route in an urban network using real-time crash risk data, and can be incorporated into navigation apps such as Google Maps.

August 4, 2023
Canadian Geographic
Pushing to protect the marbled murrelet

Chemical and biological engineering professor emerita Dr. Royann Petrell and others are calling on the government to increase wildlife habitat areas in Vancouver Island old-growth forests to save the threatened marbled murrelet.

August 2, 2023
CBC
Ottawa's big LRT fix is redesigning train parts. What about the track?

UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove commented on the shutdown of Ottawa’s LRT system.

August 2, 2023
Surrey Now-Leader
Vancouver man wins award for work aimed at improving air quality

Chemical and biological engineering postdoctoral researcher Dr. Kevin Kung received the Mitacs Environmental Entrepreneur Award.

August 1, 2023
The Weather Network
Here’s how Vancouver rain gardens are giving salmon a boost

A study co-authored civil engineering researchers found that specially designed gardens could reduce the amount of a toxic car tire chemical entering our waterways by more than 90 per cent.

July 31, 2023
Daily Commercial News
Artificial intelligence and the future of modular and pre-fab construction

Civil engineering research associate Puyan Zadeh commented on how AI could effect the general and modular construction industry.

July 31, 2023
Washington Post
States siphoned away $750 million in infrastructure law climate funds

Civil engineering professor Dr. Alex Bigazzi said congestion-reducing technology is not the most efficient way to cut emissions as unclogging roads encourages people to drive more.

July 27, 2023
Daily Commercial News
Next-gen mass timber touted as way for buildings to ascend to 20 storeys

Civil and mechanical engineering professor Dr. Tony Yang is working on a government-funded that will make mass timber construction buildings of up to 20 storeys economically and technically feasible by 2028.

July 26, 2023
Castanet
UBCO researchers recover vital resources from wastewater sludge

UBCO civil engineering professor Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu led a study that investigated how to extract phosphorus from wastewater sludge.

July 25, 2023

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