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Nine reasons we love our spooky, kooky model organisms

Nature News | | Media coverage

CHBE Associate Professor Dr. Jane Hill was among nine researchers who shared what inspired the study of an unusual, spooky organism.

UBCO students looking for an existing home they can help make more energy efficient and fire-resistant

Castanet | | Media coverage

A group of UBCO engineering students are looking to work with the owners of a single-family home who are interested in making it more energy efficient and fire-resistant.

Engineering: A Career Path That Powers Possibilities

| Spotlight

Job: Associate, McKinsey & CompanyTell us about your job.I’m in a very non-traditional job for engineers at the moment, working as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. 

Meet three UBC engineering students interning at Seaspan

Seaspan | | Media coverage

Nila Ravichandran, Bryce Jacobs and Sarah Adjoa Kankam are three UBC engineering students who are starting new opportunities with Seaspan this fall.

Three UBC engineering students receive Engineers Canada's 2024 Leadership Scholarship

| Announcement

Ruth Yu, Joyce Xi and Farah Sadek were recognized as demonstrating potential to be leaders in advancing engineering in Canada.

Texting while walking puts pedestrians in danger: UBC engineering study

| Announcement

New UBC engineering research analyzed actual pedestrian interactions with vehicles on busy streets and concluded that distracted pedestrians face higher safety risks compared with undistracted road users.

Mentorship: e@UBC's Chang Han puts his heart into in BC startups like CanDry

BC Business | | Media coverage

ECE alumna Maddie Aliasl and CHBE alumnus Hamid Rezaei were recognized for their statup company, CanDry Technologies.

Faculty Insight: Dr. Kiana Amini on pioneering electrochemical solutions

| Announcement

MTRL Assistant Professor Dr. Kiana Amini discusses her research developing electrochemical systems aimed at advancing clean energy and promoting environmental sustainability.

Players get ‘sleepy’ brainwaves after soccer headers, UBC study finds

Global News | | Media coverage

Dr. Lyndia Wu's research revealed that impacts from heading a ball slows brain activity and produce brain waves associated with sleep and drowsiness.

A rare brief flowering of the enormous smelly corpse plant

BBC | | Media coverage

A 2023 study co-authored by CHBE Associate Professor Dr. Jane Hill studied how the volatile organic compounds emitted by corpse plant change through flowering. 

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