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Women in engineering

UBC-based nonprofit MEDIC Foundation cuts into the heart of chronic conditions

BC Business | Sep 15, 2022 | Media coverage

UBC Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students Anjali Menon and Madhini Vigneswaran discuss their nonprofit, MEDIC Foundation, which aims to make treatment for people diagnosed with chronic conditions more accessible and convenient.

UBC team announces pollution-sniffing lab on wheels

Today in BC | Sep 01, 2022 | Media coverage

UBC researchers have developed a mobile lab to measure concentrations of air pollutants across the city. Mechanical engineering professor Dr. Naomi Zimmerman was quoted.

UBC Engineering students set to launch ‘sailbot’ to Hawaii

Aug 26, 2022 | Announcement

Built and developed by passionate students from the UBC Sailbot engineering design team, Raye will navigate and sail 2,308 nautical miles (4,274 km) across the Pacific Ocean, without a human crew.

UBC Engineering deploys mobile air pollution laboratory

Aug 10, 2022 | Announcement

An “air pollution lab on wheels”, PLUME will be used to measure air pollutants across Vancouver including carbon monoxide, ground-level ozone, black carbon, methane, volatile organic compounds, and various sizes of ultrafine particles.

UBC Engineers develop nano-copper to quickly kill superbugs

Jul 28, 2022 | Announcement

A team of UBC researchers led by Dr. Amanda Clifford (she/her), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering, have designed a nano-copper coating that includes bacteria-killing nanoscale features and zinc.