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Gina Ogilvie

HPV testing: A gamechanger in preventing cervical cancer

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Dr. Sean Michaletz is a 2025 Sloan Fellow in Earth System Science. Credit: Paul H. Joseph/UBC

Why ‘leaky’ plants could accelerate climate change

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wildfire threatening town

Counting the days: A new way to measure disaster impact

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 Researchers examine bamboo takeout containers—one intact and one deteriorated. Photo: Lou Bosshart/UBC

Bamboo takeout containers offer a sustainable alternative free of ‘forever chemicals’

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A person holds a big cardboard sign that says "Change the Politics Not the Climate". Photo by Tania Malréchauffé on Unsplash

What Trump’s climate policies mean for Canada—and what we can do next

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Dr. Melissa Perreault (centre left) and Dr. Judy Illes discuss Two Eyed Seeing in neuroscience with an audience at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver during Brain Awareness Week in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Melissa Perreault)

Bringing Indigenous ways of knowing to neuroscience

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 NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test in 2022. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

One in four chance per year that rocket junk will enter busy airspace

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Dr. Ali Bashashati observes an endometrial cancer sample on a microscope slide.

AI is moving us a step closer to more advanced and equitable endometrial cancer diagnostics

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person shopping for produce

Where do Canada’s fruits and vegetables come from? New website maps the flow into provinces

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sexuality conficts

How sexuality conflicts are quietly breaking relationships apart

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decorative

Remaking connections through art(ifacts)

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salting truck

Winter road salt could be killing salmon eggs

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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