Research Stories

Working Towards Inclusion: TYDE Project helps those with developmental disabilities find meaningful employment

Tiny Molecules Add New Life to Pulp and Paper Products

Music students perform better in school than non-musical peers

UBC launches Canada’s first graduate blockchain training path

Study highlights lack of fair access to urban green spaces

Flexible work arrangements reduce wage gap for mothers

Gay and lesbian spaces in the city becoming more diverse, not going away

A Sound Solution to a Silent Killer

UBC researchers find ways to hackproof smart meters

Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion

Having Their Say: Authority, Voice, and Satisfaction with Democracy

Beyond the Bard

Teens prefer harm reduction messaging on substance use

Filtered diesel exhaust may worsen allergy-induced lung impairment more than unfiltered

From foam to bone: plant cellulose can pave the way for healthy bone implants

Not all stem cells are created equal

Low-cost 'cancer probe' could spot deadly melanoma early

Even the fittest middle-aged athletes can’t outrun cardiovascular risk factors

Scientists grow perfect human blood vessels in a petri dish

UBC researchers develop climate change video game for classroom use

Global warming pushing alpine species higher and higher

Discovery by SBQMI-led research collaboration shortlisted as a 2018 Breakthrough of the Year

UBC Pharm Sci professor to join Canadian research team studying the progression of multiple sclerosis

Two UBC researchers are conducting Canada’s first psychosocial space experiment to learn how astronauts adjust to life in the cosmos

Keep your head out of the game, suggests new UBC research

NFL gives significant funding to help youth ‘shred’ the burden of concussion

UBC scientists find potential biomarker for a regional health hazard

Breakthrough discovery will change treatment for COPD patients

Gut enzymes could hold key to producing universal blood

Mammals and birds could have best shot at surviving climate change

Innovative floor-cleaning robots now scrubbing the halls of UBC

Rogers and UBC ink multi-year agreement to build 5G Hub in Vancouver

Dr. Daniel Justice portrays the true nature of Indigenous peoples through artistic and literary expression

Sex education doesn't reflect real life realities of lesbian and bisexual girls

Research improves screening of experimental therapies for neurodegenerative disease

Teen girls did not engage in riskier sexual activity after HPV vaccine introduced in schools

Does your social life make you happy? CFI feature on UBC's Dr. Frances Chen

Could a DIY ultrasound be in your future? UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine

How the world's first Haida-language feature film made it to screen

UBC-designed cooler combats vaccine spoilage in developing world

UBC Dentistry team switching off the lights on inflammation

Access to justice for persons with HIV

UBC researchers help develop and promote 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years

Transforming waste into energy using the power of microbes

Getting a closer look at how the Huntington’s gene works

Imposing the right kind of order on the chaos of data

Mimicking human perception to turn sketches into 3D

Forests sustain those living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi

From killer to chronic, epidemic to eliminated: stopping the spread of HIV+AIDS through effective, sustained treatment

Preserving the planet, species by species

Collaboration key to unravelling mysteries of the mind