Author Archives: Ana

2015 UBC Farm Symposium

UBC Farm Symposium
The 2015 UBC Farm Symposium was a great success; it was a true celebration of students, faculty and community member engagement with sustainable food systems. We were so lucky to hear from various sustainability focused presenters throughout the day each with their own range of interests, including alternative land access, transformative sustainability learning, food as medicine, farm to healthcare advocacy… Read more

Digital Waste Management System

Digital Waste management
During our eight month project, we have learned many things about engineering. The pictures above are one part of our project. The left part of the device is the scale indicator which is necessary to interface with the scale and to the right of the device which we have designed to control the overall system. We did not build a… Read more

Journal of Political Science

JPS
The Journal of Political Studies is one of the longest-running and most highly regarded undergraduate research journals in the country. We are proud to be entirely student-run, from our editorial board to our graphic designers. The JPS is published by the UBC Political Science Student Association in partnership with the UBC Department of Political Science, and we have been in… Read more

UBC Electric Car Update

Interface board - Cover off
Interface board with the cover off. The UBC Electric Car Club’s major battery upgrade project is going well and should be completed by the end of April! On the containment side, we’ve completed the design of the battery box. The box will be made out of 3/16″ 6061-T6 aluminum. We ordered a 12ft by 4ft plate last week; it was… Read more

New SUB: UBC Rooftop Garden Club

Rooftop Garden Club
As UBC anticipates the official opening of its new student union building (the AMS Student Nest), members of the Roots on the Roof club have been eagerly awaiting the new rooftop garden that will be opening with it. Started in 2014, Roots on the Roof is a new UBC club created to manage the rooftop garden being constructed on top… Read more

Sustainability Research Symposium 2015

Sustainability Research Symposium
The first ever Sustainability Research Symposium on March 4th held by the UBC Sustainability Ambassadors, acted as a showcase for the multidisciplinary field of sustainability. As Sustainability Ambassadors, we even find it hard to define exactly what sustainability is and what in its entirety encompasses. As such, the symposium was a method of bringing the UBC community together and encouraging… Read more

Talk Green to Me Seminar Series

Talk green to me
Primary Project Leader: Vrinda Ohri Talk Green to Me was a series of sustainability seminars that ran from January 2015 to March 2015. The aim of these seminars was to use an interdisciplinary and unique approach to educate about various aspects of sustainability. There were originally eight seminars planned but as we began working on the seminars, we realized that… Read more

Thermal Energy Storage: Final Update!

final post
This is our final blog post for the year! AMS Sustainability has been great in supporting our team in developing our thermal energy storage device. Our two members, Amit and Michael have worked tirelessly to develop a system that is able to charge and recharge molecular sieves on demand. We took a research material in which its known practical use… Read more

UBC E-Racing Update – December

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With the winter break fast approaching the team is getting ready to do some major work on the car. We will be tearing down the car and safety testing every part on the car to make sure that they are up to the standards required for the Knox Mountain Hill Climb. This is going to be a very large undertaking… Read more