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June 11, 2025Wood-Leather Soccer Ball Showcased at Osaka Expo 2025
Created in the official size for junior soccer games, the wood leather ball not only closely aligns with Expo 2025’s overarching theme of “Designing Future Soci
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June 5, 2025BPI Receives 2024 Elsevier Materials Today Agents of Change Award for Indigenous Outreach Initiative
BPI Team has received the 2024 Materials Today Agents of Change Award, jointly funded by the Elsevier Foundation and Materials Today journals. Our Indigenous Yo
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June 5, 2025Wood-Leather: A Sustainable Alternative to Animal and Fossil-Based Leather
The Wood Leather Project is a collaborative initiative to develop a bio-based leather alternative—crafted not from animals or fossil fuels, but from sustainably
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June 4, 2025Biobased Stir Stick for Drink Safety by Dr. Johan Foster & Team
Spikeless, developed by Johan Foster, Samin Yousefi & team, detects GHB and ketamine in drinks in just 30 seconds. This discreet, biobased stir stick shifts...
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May 28, 2025New UBC Spin-Offs in 2024/2025 Include Breakthroughs by BPI Researchers
15 new spin-offs emerged from UBC in 2024/2025—BPI researchers are part of this innovation wave. Supported by Innovation UBC, Venture Founder, and HATCH...
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May 28, 2025Postdoc Penghui Zhu Wins 1st Place in Blue Sky Young Researchers Innovation Award
Congratulations to Dr. Penghui Zhu for winning 1st place in the Blue Sky Young Researchers Innovation Award by International Council of Forest & Paper...
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May 26, 2025We're Hiring!
We’re looking for a Technical Analyst and a Technical Business Analyst to join our multidisciplinary team advancing sustainable, bio-based materials. These role
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May 24, 2025Boreal Alliance Awarded EU-COST Action Funding
The Boreal Alliance’s COST Action proposal “Resource-Inclusive Renewable Materials: Leveraging Global Biomass for Sustainable Innovations" was approved for fund
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May 24, 2025Dr. Mohammad Arjmand Honoured as 2025 Researcher of the Year at UBC Okanagan
Big congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Arjmand for being named UBC Okanagan’s 2025 Researcher of the Year in Natural Sciences & Engineering! His work in Polymer...
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May 23, 202538 BPI Researchers Named Among World's Top 2% Most Cited Scientists
A total of 38 BPI researchers are named among the 100,000 most-cited scientists, or among the top 2% of most-cited scientists in their respective subfields...
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May 21, 2025Dr. Taraneh Sowlati Awarded Faculty of Forestry Excellence in Graduate Supervision Award
This award recognizes Taraneh as an exceptional role model and mentor. Taraneh has mentored over 50 graduate students and postdocs over her career thus far.
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May 8, 2025BPI Research Day 2025: Showcasing BPI's Excellence in Research and Education
BPI Research Day 2025 was held on May 2 at the UBC Life Sciences Centre, welcoming over 260 attendees from 20 academic, industry, and government organizations. With the ongoing theme “Connecting & Empowering the Next-Gen Innovators,” the event focused on supporting early-career researchers and…