UBC welcomes a Supreme Court of Canada decision issued today that ends a longstanding lawsuit against the University and affirms UBC’s role in fostering open discourse and academic freedom without threats of legal action.
UBC welcomes a Supreme Court of Canada decision issued today that ends a longstanding lawsuit against the University and affirms UBC’s role in fostering open discourse and academic freedom without threats of legal action.
UBC Engineering announces the winners of the UBC Engineering Video Contest. The contest challenged Engineering students to share their sense of pride in their UBC experience. The judges based their selections on the professionalism, style and creativity of the videos. The winners are: First place–Paul Milaire (3rd year MECH) Second place– Jordan Balanko (1st year [...]
UBC has been selected as the host campus for the 2012 Academic Library Advancement and Development Network (ALADN) conference, which focuses on fundraising and development issues for academic and research libraries in North America. The Vancouver campus was chosen following a presentation by Shakeela Begum, UBC Library’s Director of Development at the recent ALADN gathering. [...]
Prof. Patrick Condon, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, will launch his book entitled Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design strategies for the Post-Carbon World. It is the first major book published in North America that maps the connection between city form and their effects on the planet — particularly the damage done by the [...]
UBC now provides composting for more than 1,000 campus apartment and townhouse homes in partnership with University Neighbourhoods Association. A pilot version of the program was the first in Metro Vancouver to bring compost service to multi-unit residential dwellings. In the last year alone, the program has diverted nearly 50,000 kg of organics from the [...]
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies announced the appointment of 10 Early Career Scholars. This scholarship is given to full-time UBC faculty who are in the professorial ranks and at the early stage of their academic careers. Each scholar will receive an infrastructure budget of $10,000. The recipients are: Purang Abolmaesumi - Dept. of [...]
UBC Engineering students Lindsey Curtis, Elizabeth Hughes and Hengameh Hoseini have been announced as 2010 scholarship recipients by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation. Curtis and Hughes will receive two of this year’s three Vale Inco $10,000 undergraduate scholarships. Hoseini has been named one of the nation’s top-five undergraduate engineering students and will receive the $5,000 [...]
Dr. Raymond Lam, UBC Psychiatry professor and Medical Director of the Mood Disorders Centre of Excellence at UBC Hospital is the principal investigator of the new research study on the effects of bright light therapy and negative ion therapy for clinical depression. Entitled LIFE: Light, Ion, and Fluoxetine Efficacy in Depression, Dr. Lam will oversee [...]
Prof. Michiel van de Panne and Assoc. Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich, Dept. of Computer Science received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Accelerator Supplement. The supplement is valued at $120,000 over three years and provides recipients with additional resources to expand the supplement holder’s research group that would accelerate the progress [...]
Two faculty members of the UBC School of Nursing are among the recipients of the 2010 Nursing Excellence Awards given by the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC). Asst. Prof. John Oliffe received the Excellence in Nursing Research award. Oliffe’s research in men’s health has impacted communities around the world and earned him [...]
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