Research Stories


Recent Research Stories From Across UBC

Young children prefer to learn from people who are consistently accurate and confident

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Protecting wild salmon in uncertain times

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Study finds resale ticket markets benefit sports teams and fans

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Study of Canadian sexual assault cases deflates ‘statutory rape’ myth

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Tracking BC’s vanishing glaciers

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I quit: how poor treatment by customers leads to high turnover in the service industry

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How ancient microbes created massive ore deposits, set the stage for early life on Earth

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Canadians dying at a higher rate in areas with more air pollution

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How Women and Girls get Political Power

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How virtual reality could revolutionize the art of conducting

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Does Climate Change Affect Real Estate Prices? Only If You Believe In It

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Sebastian Prange wins the American Historical Association’s John F. Richards Prize

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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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