UBC graduate student David Toews with a winter wren in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. - photo courtesy of David Toews
UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 11 |
Nov. 2, 2006
Birds of a Feather, Discovered Together
After millions of years of separation, two divergent forms of North American winter wrens have finally come together, and UBC zoologists have discovered where.
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Driver Education Not Enough
Rick Clapton once believed driver training helped improve safety for motorists, but those views have taken a sharp U-turn.
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West Nile Virus: To Spray Or Not To Spray?
When B.C. gets hit with an outbreak of West Nile Virus (WNV), pesticide spray programs will keep us all safe, right?
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Conflicted On Immigration: Europe
If the world’s migrants were to gather in one place, they would form the fifth largest nation on earth.
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Remote Community Engages UBC to Tackle Diabetes
It’s a heck of a commute. But the five-member team from UBC’s Dept. of Pediatrics had no complaints about clambering aboard a float plane crammed with equipment to travel 630 km. to Hartley Bay.
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Alumni Focus: Goat’s The Hero In This Community
It all started with goats. In 2004, UBC PhD alumnus John Agak asked then-president Martha Piper for forty goats to help his home community in Kenya.
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Podcast or Perish
Are journalists destined to be the Walkmans in a world of shiny new iPods?
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Back to the Future: UBC Launches Next Community Planning Chapter
UBC is asking faculty, staff, students and residents for their views a new UBC Vancouver campus plan that will shape future land-use planning on UBC’s 404-hectare site.
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The Student Experience in a Rankings Wrangle
November is the traditional month of undergraduate student-focused Canadian
university rankings. This year, UBC and 21 other Canadian universities declined to
participate in the Maclean’s rankings because of methodological concerns.
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