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UBC Reports | Vol. 48 | No. 3 | Feb. 7, 2002UBC earns lion's share of innovation fundingResearchers at UBC and its affiliated teaching hospitals received
almost $76 million in infrastructure research funding for 16 projects
-- the largest amount awarded -- from the Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI) in a recent competition. Centre to zero in on human securityMapping the incidence, severity and consequences of global violence
will be the major focus of UBC's new Centre for Human Security.
Short winter days mean higher returns, researchers sayWinter blues may be bad for us but not for the return on our portfolios,
according to research conducted recently in the Faculty of Commerce
and Business Administration. Study flexes musclesSkiers, hikers and astronauts may all benefit from an investigation
launched recently by UBC Rehabilitation Sciences researchers. Older women think age does wither youIf you think your worries about weight and wrinkles will disappear
with the wisdom of age think again, says UBC researcher Laura Hurd
Clarke. Centre investigates lung, heart diseaseAllison Banting had no reason to know about lung disease research
in Vancouver until last spring. That's when a near-fatal asthma
attack put her in St. Paul's Hospital's intensive care unit where
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