Updates, news and stories
A selection of updates, news and stories from across the university.
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UBCVMarch 17, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Holly Caggiano
Meet Holly Caggiano, an assistant professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, whose work explores climate justice and community-led environmental planning. She’s bridging the gap between local officials and their communities to drive more inclusive and effective clean energy transitions.
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UBCVFebruary 24, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Karen Sherwood
Karen Sherwood is a clinical associate professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Her research focuses on using genomics to personalize transplant treatments to improve patient outcomes. Discover how her groundbreaking projects are bringing us closer to achieving transplant tolerance.
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UBCOFebruary 3, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Ray Taheri
Driven by a passion for real-world, community-centred challenges, Ray believes that engineers have a unique responsibility to be part of society's solutions. He works closely with Dr. Hadi Mohammadi on projects to improve the quality of life for those affected by medical conditions.
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UBCVNovember 12, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Cecilia Jevitt
Cecilia is a professor in the Department of Family Practice with the Faculty of Medicine. Through her research, she aims to reduce weight-based stigma and non-essential medical treatments by showing that women with obesity can have healthy, uncomplicated pregnancies.
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UBCOOctober 15, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Sally Stewart
With an academic background in health, nutrition and exercise physiology, Sally understands how poor student health negatively impacts learning. She and her team have developed online learning modules on weight stigma/bias with a focus on eating disorders to promote awareness and access to timely care.
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UBCVSeptember 3, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Mathieos Belayneh
Mathieos is a physician in the Faculty of Medicine's Division of Palliative Care. His research focuses on the efficacy of methadone in treating Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy – a disorder that causes chronic neuropathic pain and debilitation in many cancer patients.
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UBCOAugust 12, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Amir Ardestani-Jaafari
Amir is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Management. His research focuses on how theoretical math can be used to prepare for uncertainty and variability, ensuring critical systems and services – such as healthcare delivery, transportation networks or energy distribution – remain reliable even under adverse conditions.
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UBCVJuly 15, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
Biz is an assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies. Find out how she examines the intersection between board games and discourses of colonialism, and the role of she believes board games play in teaching and learning.
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UBCVMay 27, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Stefan Sunandan Honisch
Stefan is a sessional instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film. Learn more about how his lived experience as a disabled pianist informs his research.
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UBCVMay 6, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Cathy Kline
As the Assistant Director of Patient and Community Engagement in the Office of the Vice-President, Health, Cathy is interested in integrating patient experience into training the future generation of health professionals.
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UBCOApril 8, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Grace Fan
Grace is an assistant professor with the Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan. Learn more about what inspired her to pursue her research and why she hopes it ignites passion in others to learn from Indigenous peoples.
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UBCVMarch 4, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Alexis McGee
Alexis believes that, as a scholar of colour, her voice can be added to the wealth of resources other scholars and activists have shared as they continue educating each other about intersectionality and anti-Blackness, among other forms of marginalization.