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UBC Applied Science researchers awarded over $1.3M in CIHR Project Grants
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Researchers in UBC’s faculties of nursing and mechanical engineering have been awarded more than $1.3 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the agency’s Project Grant Program’s 2019 fall competition. The Project…
Geering Up receives 2019 Actua Experience Award
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Updated June 24, 2022 Editors note: Since this article was published in 2019, Gearing Up has been diversifying and expanding. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online programming was launched so that BC youth could access STEM. Now, Gearing Up…
"Grandfather of BC bioengineering industry” inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
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James McEwen, a UBC alumnus and adjunct professor in UBC’s Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Medicine, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) for his invention of the automatic surgical tourniquet, a…
UBC engineering prof named to Order of Canada
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Donald Mavinic, a professor emeritus in UBC’s Department of Civil Engineering and an internationally recognized expert in water treatment, has been appointed to the Order of Canada “[f]or his contributions to environmental engineering science and…
Biomed student wins 2019 BC MEDTECH Graduate Award
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Rohit Singla, an MD/PhD student at the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering, has received the 2019 BC MEDTECH Graduate Award in Biomedical Engineering. Selected by the Faculties of Applied Science and Medicine in consultation with the Faculty of…
Four UBC Applied Science students receive Women in Tech Scholarships
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Four students in the UBC Faculty of Applied Science — Jessica Bo, Esther Lin, Parmis Mohaghegh and Tiffany Quon — have been awarded 2019 Women in Technology and Indigenous Women in Technology Scholarships from the Irving K. Barber British Columbia…
Mangrove Water Technologies awarded $5 million in global carbon reduction competition
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UBC spin-off company Mangrove Water Technologies has won the Emissions Reduction Alberta Grand Challenge, a five-year, three-stage global competition aimed at accelerating the development of innovative technologies or processes that can turn carbon…
Three students awarded Canada's largest STEM scholarship
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Selected from a national pool of over 300,000 high school candidates, five students from the University of British Columbia have received the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship. Three of the 2019 recipients are enrolled in Faculty of Applied…
Hongshen Ma receives support from Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
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Hongshen Ma, a UBC mechanical engineering professor, has received funding support from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) to develop technology that may bring protein-based medicines to market more quickly and cost-effectively…
Engineering prof elected to Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
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UBC electrical and computer engineering professor Lukas Chrostowski has been named a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Canada’s “first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the…