UBC experts are available to comment on the arrival of the 2010 Winter Games Olympic torch in North America on Friday, Oct. 30.
UBC experts are available to comment on the arrival of the 2010 Winter Games Olympic torch in North America on Friday, Oct. 30.
Associate Vice President Planning Nancy Knight gives a status update on the UBC Bus Terminal.
The arrival off the coast of Vancouver Island of 76 migrants aboard a ship falsely calling itself the “Ocean Lady” earlier this month has prompted debate about Canada’s laws and policies surrounding illegal migration, human smuggling and the refugee-determination process.
UBC is challenging teachers and students around the world to demonstrate how they use learning technologies to promote a broader understanding of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in their classrooms.
National Geographic filmmaker and adventurer Jon Bowermaster will take part in one of more than 60 workshops, lectures and public events at the second UBC Celebrate Learning Week Oct. 24-30.
Recent UBC Media Releases Oct. 22: UBC innovation, industry collaboration recognized by NSERC awards Upcoming Event Highlights Oct. 23: Brazilian Film at Frederic Wood Theatre Oct. 26: Living with two cultures: Canadian reggae as a site for diasporic identity construction Oct. 27: Wounded Souls and the Vulnerable Self Oct. 28: The Academic Profession in Mexico: [...]
Three exhibits are on display in the gallery space of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre located on level two of the Learning Centre, to the left of the circulation desk. Presented by the Asian Library, Cantonese Music: Where East meets West is a collection of instruments including hammer dulcimers, two-stringed fiddles, three-stringed lutes and [...]
A collaboration between architecture, mechatronics (mechanical engineering) and engineering physics students from UBC, ROBOstudio will be on display on Oct. 27. ROBOstudio features student designed retrofits for buildings on UBC campus. There will be models, videos and poster boards on display, and students will be available to speak about their designs. Posters will remain in the lobby for [...]
The UBC Library and the City of Vancouver Archives has launched a new website that offers users a look at a century of local Chinese-Canadian heritage. Entitled The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, the site features holdings from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection at UBC, and the Yip family and Yip [...]
UBC Mechanical Engineering Prof. Hongshen Ma has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation valued at US$100,000. The grant will support an innovative global health research project titled Microfluidic Isolation of Malaria-infected Red Cells. For more information, visit http://www.engineering.ubc.ca/news/2009/oct20.html
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