BRIC News
March 18, 2026
March 18, 2026 As a follow-up to his article entitled “Will 2026 Finally Be the Year of Biochar?“, Kamyar Razavi, a writer for The New Climate publication, published “From the Deep Fryer to Your Gas Tank“. A summary of the article is as follows: the author explores the potential of used cooking oil and other […]
BRIC researcher featured in a medium article “Will 2026 Finally Be the Year of Biochar?”
January 12, 2026
January 12, 2026 Kamyar Razavi, a writer for The New Climate publication, wrote an article entitled “Will 2026 Finally Be the Year of Biochar?“. A summary of the article is as follows: Biochar—produced by heating agricultural or woody biomass in low-oxygen conditions—is gaining renewed attention as a climate solution. Advocates argue it can lock carbon […]
CERC members won one of the three awards under Campus as a Living Lab ‘Grand Challenge’
March 5, 2024
March 5, 2024 The Campus as a Living Lab ‘Grand Challenge’ called for visionary approaches to how British Columbia and Canada can effectively respond and adapt to the climate emergency. This year’s competition, attracted faculty and staff from more than 22 academic departments and operational units across UBC Vancouver and Okanagan, resulting in three projects […]
Faculty of Applied Science News
- How Dream Photonics is helping to transform advanced tech manufacturing in BC lillienne.zen Thu, 10/15/2026 – 13:29 Engineering Entrepreneurship Research Excellence External This article originally appeared on UBC News. A UBC engineering spin-off company begun by Dr. Lukas Chrostowski and Dr. Sudip Shekhar is tackling a critical manufacturing bottleneck, helping companies scale and commercialize advanced […]
- Innovation and impact drive the 2025/26 UBC Applied Science Research Report briana.griffith Wed, 10/14/2026 – 10:01 Research Excellence This article originally appeared on Over the past year, researchers across the Faculty of Applied Science secured $97.5 million in research funding from Canadian and international partners, bringing the Faculty’s five-year average to approximately $100 million annually.This […]
- Setting up for interdisciplinary success lillienne.zen Tue, 09/29/2026 – 12:16 Engineering Research Excellence SALA Women in Engineering Dr. Xun Liu and Dr. Naoko Ellis in the Faculty of Applied Science have been named the 2026 recipients of the Marshall Bauder Chairs in Innovation in Interdisciplinary Education. This article originally appeared on The world moves fast, […]
- New UBC clinic to provide team-based care for up to 4,450 BC patients lillienne.zen Fri, 09/25/2026 – 09:16 Nursing Student Experience The team-based teaching clinic at the newly named MacIsaac Health Building is the first of its kind in BC. Students from multiple health disciplines will learn alongside licensed health professionals to care for people […]
- Dream Photonics wins the 2026 New Ventures BC Competition lillienne.zen Mon, 09/21/2026 – 14:35 AI Engineering Entrepreneurship Research Excellence External This article originally appeared on Vancouver Tech Journal. The UBC spin-off co-founded by Drs. Lukas Chrostowski and Sudip Shekhar aims to enable chipmakers to build faster, cheaper hardware to power the global AI boom. Mentioned […]