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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…
Turkey 2-Part Tourney terrifies (and delights) APSC community
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As if the approach of another Vancouver winter weren’t scary enough, today UBC Applied Science hosted its second annual Turkey 2-Part Tourney — a Halloween-themed competition that struck mortal fear into the hearts of everyone in attendance. After…
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…
UBC lab spins nanofibre "gold" from waste fabrics
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In the materials engineering labs at UBC, surrounded by Bunsen burners, microscopes and spinning machines, professor Frank Ko and research scientist Addie Bahi have developed a simple process for converting waste cotton into much higher-value…
UBC student becomes inventor to help brother with muscular dystrophy
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In response, Michael, currently in his fourth year in UBC’s engineering physics program, turned to technology and his knack for invention to help his brother do simple tasks and find a measure of enjoyment in life. Daniel, now 28, was diagnosed…
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…
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.