In the Media

International Business Times -- January 4 , 2016 -- Dr. Jaymie Matthews
Search For Habitable Planets Made Easier With New Technique To Measure Surface Gravity Of Distant Stars
Chicago Tribune/Washington Post -- January 4 , 2016 -- Dr. Jaymie Matthews
A new way of calculating distant stars' gravity could help us find alien worlds
BBC -- January 2 , 2016 -- Dr. Jaymie Matthews
Advance in astronomy 'can help find other worlds'
Astronomy Now -- January 1 , 2016 -- Dr. Jaymie Matthews
Measuring the pull of gravity at the surface of distant stars
Quirks and Quarks -- December 4 , 2015 -- Dr. Ingrid Stairs
Pulsar Pair Bends Space-Time
The Washington Post -- December 3 , 2015 -- Kiyoshi Masui
Radio pulses from space have stumped scientists for years. Now we may be close to solving the mystery
Ubyssey -- November 19 , 2015 -- Dr. Scott Oser and many more
UBC physicists win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Global TV and CBC news -- November 12 , 2015 -- Dr. Jaymie Matthews
Interview: Landing of Rosetta lander Philae on a comet
Faculty of Science Media Release -- October 15 , 2015 -- Dr. Georg Rieger, Dr. Stefan Reinsberg, and Grad students Firas Moosvi, Jason Park, Pedro Luis Esquinas and Scott Veale
Physics course adopts open textbook, saves students $90,000
Ubyssey -- October 8 , 2015 -- Dr. Jenny Hoffman
Our Campus: Fresh from Harvard, hotshot prof Jenny Hoffman adjusts to Point Grey
Ubyssey -- October 7 , 2015 -- Engineering Physics student Yuqing Du
UBC students develop bee probiotics to fight pesticides
Business Vancouver -- September 30 , 2015 -- Quantum Matter Institute
Quantum matter grant bringing jobs to UBC
CBC -- September 27 , 2015 -- Dr. Brett Gladman
Beyond Pluto: 5 things left to explore in our solar system
Newswire (news release) -- September 23 , 2015 -- Dr. Steven Plotkin
ProMIS Neurosciences Announces Appointment of Dr. Steven Plotkin as Chief Physics Officer
Gizmag -- September 21 , 2015 -- Dr. Kris Sigurdson
Fast radio bursts may provide 3D map of cosmos
APS Magazine Physics -- September 18 , 2015 -- Dr. Kris Sigurdson and Post-doc Kiyoshi Masui
Focus: Radio Signals May Reveal Cosmological Structure
Phys.org news -- September 18 , 2015
Researchers propose new way to chart the cosmos in 3D
3Dprint.com -- September 15 , 2015 -- Dr. Jennifer Hoffman
Quantum 3D Printing on the Horizon, According to UBC Researcher Jennifer Hoffman
The Times -- August 19 , 2015 -- Dr. Douglas Bonn and graduate student Natasha Holmes
Self-directed, iterative learning dramatically improves critical thinking in STEM classes
Stanford News -- August 17 , 2015 -- Graduate student Natasha Holmes
Stanford research shows how to improve students' critical thinking about scientific evidence