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Biomedical engineering student receives Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship
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Benjamin McMaster, a third-year student in the UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering program’s cellular bioengineering stream, has been awarded a Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship. The scholarship was established from a bequest to the university…
B.C. wood fuel could cut coal power emissions by 85%
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Fueling power plants with wood pellets instead of coal could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 85 per cent, a recent University of British Columbia study has found. This is the case even after factoring in emissions caused by…
Feedback-based policy can help manage COVID-19 more effectively
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A team of applied science researchers at the University of British Columbia have joined the fight against COVID-19. They’ve developed a systematic feedback strategy they say can help public health authorities in their efforts to contain the virus…
Which types of copper surfaces can help stop the spread of hospital infections?
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Bacteria and other microorganisms thrive in health care settings, infecting hundreds of millions of patients — and costing health systems billions of dollars — every year. Now, new research from the University of British Columbia suggests that…
Engineering prof elected to US National Academy of Engineering
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Rabab Ward, a professor emerita in UBC’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a Foreign Member of the United States’ National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for her “innovative applications of signal processing to…
New device identifies high-quality blood donors
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Blood banks have long known about high-quality donors — individuals whose red blood cells stay viable for longer in storage, and in the recipient’s body. Now, a new device developed at UBC is showing promise as a method to identify these “super”…
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…
Students design novel carbon emissions process
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Each year, fourth-year chemical and biological engineering students in the Chemical and Biological Process and Product Design Course 453/454 are required to embark on a capstone project that tackles a real-world problem and comes up with a proposal…
UBC research highlights need to safeguard drones and robotic cars against cyber attacks
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Robotic vehicles like Amazon delivery drones or Mars rovers can be hacked more easily than people may think, new research from the University of British Columbia suggests. The researchers, based at UBC's faculty of applied science, designed…
UBC hosts road safety symposium featuring international experts
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With the number of car crashes resulting in injury or death increasing every year, the need to make our roads safer has never been more urgent. But as traffic worsens, potentially attention-diverting technologies proliferate and substance abuse…