Student teams qualify for global hackathon finals
Two School of Engineering APSC 169 student-led teams have qualified for the finals of the World Engineering Day Hackathon.
Inaugural Recipients of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact Funding Announced
Winning teams selected to receive funding to launch student-led start-ups to solve real-world problems as part of the School of Engineering’s Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact Fund.
A new real-time method could identify possible E. coli contamination faster
New research from UBC Okanagan could allow lettuce farmers to better identify the risk of contamination in irrigation for their crops.
New funding to address flooding mitigation and response in the Okanagan
UBC researchers are partnering with the Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) to develop new policy and planning tools to address flooding in the Okanagan Valley.
Detecting water contamination faster
New research has uncovered a new, fast and highly-accurate means of measuring contaminants in water. It could mean rapid detection of different types of contaminants that current methods may miss including low-levels of pesticides and hydrocarbons.