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Carbon nanotubes message to Canada olympians

Carbon nanotubes message to Canada olympians

By Eugene Barsky on February 25, 2010

From UBC engineering folks…This work is the result of a collaborative effort between assistant professors Alireza Nojeh, nanotube expert, and Kenichi Takahata, micropatterning expert, of the department of electrical and computer engineering. The image was created by graduate student Masoud Dahmardeh with assistance from graduate students Parham Yaghoobi and Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali. The area [...]

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2010 Winter Games Medal Podiums machined at UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) Lab

2010 Winter Games Medal Podiums machined at UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) Lab

By Eugene Barsky on February 17, 2010

Students and staff in UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) were given the task of creating all 23 Olympic and Paralympic wooden medal podia and the 100 wooden medal trays for the 2010 Winter Games. And yes, they delivered – http://www.cawp.ubc.ca/Whatwedo/CAWPProjects/tabid/3546/Default.aspx ** photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgillin/

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