Research Stories


Recent Research Stories From Across UBC

UBC Anthropologist Dr. Andrew Martindale has been awarded the nationally prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Impact –  Connection Award 2023 for his scholarship in partnership with Indigenous communities. Photo Credit: Brian Thom

UBC Anthropologist Dr. Andrew Martindale Wins SSHRC Impact – Connection Award 2023

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Collage photo of all UBC's 2023 RSC inductees

Celebrating Excellence and Engagement: UBC's Royal Society of Canada 2023 Inductees Speak about their Research

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Transforming dry data into Instagrammable art

Transforming dry data into Instagrammable art

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Scientist in lab collect dna sample in test tube with cotton swab

Genetic testing could greatly benefit patients with depression, save health system millions

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Savannah sparrow perched on a tree branch. Photo credit: Matt Bango/Unsplash

Cracking the code: Why songbirds are larger in colder climates

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UBC engineers created the sensor in collaboration with Frontier Robotics, Honda’s research institute. Credit: UBC Applied Science/Paul Joseph

UBC engineers develop breakthrough ‘robot skin’ in collaboration with Honda researchers

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 New personal diet calculator checks how your diet stacks up against guidelines

New personal diet calculator checks how your diet stacks up against guidelines

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Four Sides of Asteroid Bennu. Source: NASA

Bits of Bennu asteroid to arrive at UBC

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UBC Okanagan researchers take an interdisciplinary approach to wildfire management

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Anatomical model of lungs

Hospital admissions for COPD have increased, especially in women and younger adults

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Person doing yoga pose

Exercise apps a good prescription to boost healthcare workers’ mental health

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Teenagers standing by a chain link fence

Collaboration to develop national standards for substance use education and intervention in schools

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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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