Michael Griffin envisions students creating and sharing 3-D virtual models of ancient Rome or Greece - photo by Martin Dee
UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 |
Oct. 6, 2005
3-D Gaming Brings Classics to Life
What gets UBC classics graduate Michael Griffin really stoked is the idea of providing people with an experience much like the popular game, The Sims.
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Do Library Robots Dream of Electronic Books?
Canada’s first and North America’s largest library robot is up and running at the newly opened Phase One of UBC’s $68 million Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Boom or Bust: Hard on Health of Mining Communities
Extreme economic cycles are a fact of life for residents of many B.C. mining towns, but how do these shifts in prosperity affect the health of residents?
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A Better Way to Share Patient Information
Days after her first son Quinn was born, Heather Fowlie realized she would have to take his health into her own hands.
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UBC Okanagan Geographer Earns Portugal’s Highest Honour
It was 1978, and a young Jose Carlos Teixeira was about to leave the archipelago of the Azores.
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Marijuana and Youth Culture
Is it therapeutic, harmless or addictive? Adult opinions about marijuana vary widely, but what do teenagers think?
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The Purr-fect Touch
Steve Yohanan never cared much for cats. That is, until his girlfriend’s cat laid a paw on him.
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Indigenous Teacher Education Planned for Okanagan
They’ve gathered input from indigenous education experts in New Zealand, Australia, Labrador, and B.C.’s Okanagan Nation.
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Not Your Ordinary Tool Shed
Sometimes real-life learning isn’t as neat and tidy as a planned curriculum, but the pay-off can be infinitely richer.
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Technology Could Transform Urban Landscape for Disabled
Navigating the urban jungle could become much easier for people with disabilities thanks to a team of UBC electrical and computer engineering students.
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Happy Fifth Birthday: UBC Learning Exchange
When UBC launched the Learning Exchange in 1999, 30 students signed up to do volunteer work in Downtown Eastside organizations.
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Quarter Century Club
A total of 32 UBC faculty members were recognized at this year’s Quarter Century Club annual dinner, held Oct. 6.
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