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Vancouver, BC, Canada science.ubc.ca Joined March 2009

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On Nov. 12 Dr. Colin Brauner of @ZoologyUBC will be welcomed as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada. He has developed practical solutions to the impacts of environmental change on aquatic animals, fish conservation, aquaculture and the management of salmon fisheries.

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Prairie to Pharmacy is about discovering the chemistry that Canada's plants produce and determining what it does, with the long-term goal of finding new medicines.

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science.ubc.ca How a common prairie plant could contain the key to new medicines A collaboration between University of Lethbridge and UBC researchers is exploring the anti-mitotic activity of metabolites made by the Prairie Crocus.

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Today’s 2026 CWTS Leiden Rankings have placed UBC 49th in the world—and best in Canada—in the life and Earth sciences. The rankings evaluate over 1,600 major universities worldwide using bibliographic data from Clarivate's Web of Science database.

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“What makes this attack concerning is that an attacker doesn’t need to read the messages being exchanged,” said UBC computer scientist Dr. Aastha Mehta. @UBC_CS

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science.ubc.ca UBC researchers uncover new cyber threat to water and energy networks UBC researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure.

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“The trauma part of fire is very real,” says UBC mycologist Dr. @MonikaSFischer, whose lab tracks after-fire fungi. “But then the winter rains come and the fungi start fruiting, and it’s this beautiful burst of rainbow rebirth just months after. @UBCBotany
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news.mongabay.com As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after The reporting and photography for this story was fully supported by a 2025-2026 grant from the Sitka Foundation and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Four of the five worst years recorded for...