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Recent Research Stories From Across UBC
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UBC Researched explores reconciliation in contested landscapes
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UBC researchers develop biodegradable medical mask for COVID-19
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UBC scientist identifies a gene that controls thinness
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UBC economists create tool to measure COVID-19 risk in B.C. jobs
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New combination treatment may overcome drug resistance in blood cancers
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UBCO researcher says equity is key to global health
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UBC scientists discover genetic insights into cancer drug resistance
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Caring for seniors living with dementia during COVID-19
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UBC seahorse expert wins world’s top animal conservation award
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New Study Uses F1 Racing To Show How Business Leaders Pinpoint Problems
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Religion in the Age of COVID-19
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Researchers unlock TB vaccine puzzle in findings that could save millions of newborns
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UBC researchers establish new timeline for ancient magnetic field on Mars
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Honey bees could help monitor fertility loss in insects due to climate change
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Experts call for more equitable housing policy post-COVID-19
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Creating a Smarter City from Home
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The Power Game: People Want Power Over Others, Even If There’s Nothing to Gain
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The social psychologist’s guide to making people stay home
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Research challenges traditional methods used to analyze trees of life
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When crises collide: COVID-19 and overdose in the Downtown Eastside
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Aerial drones offer new perspective on resident killer whale behaviour
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When Leaders Show Humility, Workers Are Happier: Study
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B.C. wood fuel could cut coal power emissions by 85%
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How globalization stoked fear of disease during the Romantic era
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Why we need to live in social quilts, not echo chambers in times of COVID-19
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Geologists find lost fragment of ancient continent in Canada’s North
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Mastering the physics of racing cars
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A ‘playground’ for excellence
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The 20-year journey to develop an important cancer drug
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Revealing the mathematical patterns of everyday phenomena
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Anticipating species’ success in the face of climate change
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Taking stock of the world’s oceans
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Quantum materials for complex quandaries
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Co-creating new realities of global citizenship
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How does ancient Latin poetry translate to today?
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Redefining our understanding of ovarian cancer
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How does climate change make some fish winners or losers?
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Q&A: The morality of right and wrong with Azim Shariff
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Margo Seltzer: No Flying Pigs Allowed
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Meet Orlando Rojas, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Forest Bioproducts
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New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second
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Genetic variants place Asians at higher risk of side effects to common medications
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When a virus is the cause, racism is often the symptom
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Consumers value products more on sunny and snowy days but not when it rains
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New study finds companies with women on corporate boards are more innovative, efficient
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Ocean fish farming in tropics and sub-tropics most impacted by climate change: UBC study
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Hey Google, are my housemates using my smart speaker?
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Living near major roads linked to increased risk of dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS
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UBCO professor simplifies exercise advice for spinal cord injury
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UBC student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitable, Earth-sized world
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Asian Studies professor explores how Hollywood’s portrayal of Muslims has shifted over past two decades
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Magnetic field at Martian surface ten times stronger than expected
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Law fit for heating planet?
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UBC researchers develop strategy to protect wine grapes from smoke-taint
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