Topics: Engineering
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…
UBC T-cell therapy research gets boost from Collaborative Health Research Projects grant
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The article below originally appeared on the website of UBC's Michael Smith Laboratories.
UBC researchers design roadmap for hydrogen supply network across B.C.
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Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a hydrogen supply chain model that can enable the adoption of zero-emission, hydrogen-powered cars…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…