News
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April 13, 2023BPI Celebrated Its First Community Day
BPI's first Community Day was held on March 30th, 2023, and was attended by more than 90 young researchers, faculty, and staff members from the BPI community...
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April 12, 2023BPI Welcomes Dr. Ingo Burgert for his Sabbatical!
ETH Zurich's Dr. Ingo Burgert will be joining BPI for the next few months for his sabbatical! Ingo has been a Professor in Wood Materials Science at ETH Zurich and Empa, since 2011. He studied wood science and technology at the University of Hamburg, Germany and obtained a doctoral degree at the…
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March 30, 2023Breakthrough Water Treatment Method by Dr. Mohseni Eliminates Harmful Chemicals
Global News features Dr. Mohseni for developing a water treatment method that permanently removes risky chemicals from drinking water.
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March 28, 2023Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Arjmand & Dr. Zachary Hudson!
We are thrilled to see their ground-breaking research recognized at the 2022 UBC Faculty Research Awards and are so proud of their exceptional achievements!
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March 13, 2023Congratulations to the Advancing Multifunctional Dental Biomaterials team!
BPI would like to congratulate their team for the successful competition for the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters. Keep up the good work!
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March 8, 2023Dr. Feng Jiang Receives Faculty of Forestry Research Award
BPI wishes to congratulate Dr. Feng Jiang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Wood Science, for winning the Faculty’s Research Award.
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March 7, 2023Finding New Life for Plastic Waste
Plastic is ubiquitous but its disposal is a wicked problem. UBC Okanagan's Dr. Mohammad Arjmand aims to solve this with expertise and equipment.
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March 3, 2023Dr. Jimmy Lee and Dr. Richard Kerekes Inducted into CHBE Hall of Fame
BPI extends special congratulations and thanks to Dr. Kerekes and Dr. Lee for their incredible contributions and ongoing support.
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February 16, 2023BPI Warmly Welcomes Dr. Jaya Joshi to the Institute’s Research Family!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Jaya Joshi for joining BPI! Jaya Joshi is a synthetic biologist interested in the directed evolution of enzymes to transform inefficient designer biocatalysts into highly active enzymes. Jaya recently finished postdoctoral fellowships with Dr…
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February 9, 2023BPI Maintains Strong Partnership with SAFI at NCSU
BPI has been a long-standing partner of the Sustainable and Alternative Fibers Initiative (SAFI Consortium) in their joint research project on the development..
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January 27, 2023BPI ATR Beta Program Launches
Big thank you and congratulations to 8 project leads that submitted an application for the ATR program to advance their innovations / technology. Super exciti..
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January 25, 2023Dr. Mehrkhodavandi Working to Ensure Zero Spiritual Waste in Himalaya
Dr. Parisa Mehrkhodavandi with three other 2022 Catalyst Wall Scholars received funding through the PWIAS Collaboration Fund for a project that will test the degradability of a variety of Buddhist cultural prayer flags to demonstrate their commitment to not creating spiritual waste in the Himalayan…