August 7, 2024
UBC Okanagan research is helping communities build solutions for a new reality
Dr. Mathieu Bourbonnais is pursuing solutions to help communities predict, plan for and prevent such destructive wildfires. His low-cost, purpose-built wildfire sensors help pinpoint when forests are most susceptible to ignition.
UBC’s 2025 Wall Fellowships and Wall Research Awards competitions have launched, focusing on research and scholarly activity in identified areas relating to sustainability in British Columbia. This suite of awards represents one of the largest internal award programs at any university in North America. It supports the research and scholarly activities of tenured and tenure-track faculty members at all stages of their career, as well as those of master’s and doctoral students.
We are pleased to announce that UBC has embarked on a search for a new Dean, Faculty of Medicine, and Vice-President, Health. The current Dean and Vice-President, Dr. Dermot Kelleher, has served in the role since 2015, with his second term ending in summer 2025.
In much of B.C. and Canada, pre-hospital care is delivered solely by teams of paramedics. However, a new UBC study suggests that physicians and paramedics working alongside each other on specialized teams could greatly improve patient outcomes, especially in rural and remote areas.The analysis of jurisdictions that use interprofessional physician-paramedic teams shows they can increase patient survival rates by 49 per cent and decrease mortality risk by 20 per cent.
“Challenges in Partnered Research” is a Q&A series by Partnering in Research that highlights individuals transforming policies, practices, and communities through collaborative research.
When it comes to digital access and internet technologies, some languages are still more equal than others. Speakers of majority languages, who type in English or text in Korean, assume their message will be transmitted accurately. But Indigenous language communities don’t share this same confidence.Computers and smartphones don’t come with the ability to type all letters in all languages. The unique characters integral to many Indigenous languages are often mangled as they travel across the ether.
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