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Congratulations Emily Love, recipient of 3 awards from the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference 2021

Emily Love, 4th year Engineering Physics student, is awarded Best Student Presentation in the particle or nuclear physics category, First Overall Scoring Student Presentation, and Best Oral Presentation at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) 2021. The Conference, sponsored by Ryerson University in 2021, was held virtually on November 4 – 7. Love is currently […]

Canalyst, a financial data company co-founded by Eng. Phys. Alumnus Damir Hot, secures US $70 Million venture funding

Canalyst co-founders Damir Hot (left) and James Rife (right), UBC alumni.

Annual Robot Competition was held August 6

Winners of the 2020 Robot Competition [with their robots] L – R: Nick Bratvold [Sawyer Sailor]; Lewis Arnold [Infinite Innovator]; Holden Jones [The Little RowBot That Could]; Mykal Bakker-Westeinde [Jenny]

Bernhard Zender wins President’s Service Award for Excellence

We are very excited that our very own Bernhard Zender has been recognized with a President’s Service Award for Excellence for 2020. This award is given to a handful of UBC staff every year who, to name just a few of the criteria, excel in their area of work, go above and beyond their job […]

Creation of Breathing Anthropomorphic Phantom receives multiple honours

Yas Oloumi Yazdi and David Black working on a breathing, anthropomorphic phantom for Positron Emission Tomography

UBC Open Robotics places 2nd internationally at Robocup@HomeEducation Competition

Initially planned to take place in Bordeaux, France, the team was looking forward to attending their first team competition. However, due to Covid-19 policies, the competition was changed to virtual. Despite the challenges associated with working remotely, and on such short notice, they were able to qualify as the only North American team in their […]