Growing B.C. research companies have a new place to put down roots with the
construction of the Donald Rix Building, the latest in a series of technology
enterprise facilities located on campus.
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Add British Columbia to the world's wine-producing regions which benefit from
a major research university. The B.C. Wine Research Centre (BC WRC) at UBC has
been established to address all aspects of wine and serve as a resource for
the province's highly successful and rapidly growing industry.
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Kids will turf their textbooks and get their hands on Frisbees, parachutes
and bicycle gears in a new after-school science outreach program created by
Assoc. Prof. Niamh Kelly.
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UBC's Faculty Association has recently voted to negotiate under the B.C. Labour
Code.
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Many people would be surprised to learn that the earth's oceans teem with between
10 to 100 million viruses in every teaspoonful of seawater. That discovery was
made a decade ago by a graduate student in the lab in which UBC microbiologist
and oceanographer Curtis Suttle was doing post-doctoral work.
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A UBC specialist in transfusion medicine has been named as the national director
of research and development at Canadian Blood Services (CBS).
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