A UBC invention that transforms a simple cell phone into a portable blood-oxygen tester was one of 19 proposals to receive funding from “Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development...
Professor Vijay Bhargava was announced the winner of the Advanced Computing and Communications Society – Center for Development of Advanced Computing Foundation (ACCS-CDAC) Award for 2011. The...
Rubber is a good thermal insulator, but not a very good electrical conductor; copper, on the other hand, is a great electrical conductor, but it dissipates heat. A material that...
Imagine trying to control the placement of something as small as a carbon nanotube. Researchers working with nano-materials have to device creative ways to place and align these new...
Supercomputers bring together the computing capacity and speed of tens of thousands of computing nodes. Each of these computing nodes needs to access stored data to function. Reading data from...
“Nothing prepares you for work like work.” Sounds like something a parent or grandparent might say; one of those gems of wisdom that only comes from experience. Well, that...
Congratulations to Professor Dave Michelson on his election as the Chair of the Wavefront Wireless Commercialization Centre's Academic Advisory Board and to a seat on Wavefront's Board of...
Congratulation to Professor Tim Salcudean who along with Principal Investigator Dr. Piotr Kozlowski of UBC and fellow co-investigators Dr. Silvia Chang, Dr. Larry Goldenberg, Dr. Edward Jones and Dr...
Congratulations to Professor Purang Abolmaesumi on being awarded the CIHR Operating Grant for a research project titled "Needle Guidance System for Neuraxial Analgesia and Anesthesia"....
Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products and solutions for engineers, with customers’ worldwide. Today, the company announced the acquisition of...
Congratulations to Electrical and Computer Engineering students Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali and Jonas Flueckiger who are among the first recipients of the ICICS Graduate Scholarship. The $5000...