Recent UBC Media Releases Mar. 24: Women in Canada’s news industry still face glass ceiling: study Mar. 23: Connections trump expertise for U.S. federal lobbyists, study suggests Mar. 23: Michael Hayden bestowed premier award for leadership in medicine Mar. 22: UBC welcomes federal budget initiatives for universities Upcoming Event Highlights Mar. 25: Autophagy Symposium Mar. [...]
Those interested in current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are invited to subscribe to the Asia Pacific Memo (APM) series. Twice-weekly, APM publishes short text memos or video interviews at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ March 22: Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan on the Crisis (video interview) Receive memos in your email twice-weekly: http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/subscribe
The Clean Energy Research Centre introduces Cliff Mui and his presentation Nexterra’s Commercial Biomass Gasification Technology. Nextarra develops, manufactures and delivers advanced gasification systems that enable customs to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power at industrial and institutional facilities using waste fuels. In an era of higher energy prices, this means dramatically lower costs, [...]
The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) will host Hitoshi Abe and his talk New Types. With experience in both the Sendai and Los Angeles areas, he is the principle of Atelier Hitoshi Abe and the chair of UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. The presentation is free and open to the public. [...]
As part of the ongoing feasibility study for the new UBC Integrated Planning and Design Facility, international environmental design specialist Patrick Bellew of Atelier Ten (London) will be giving a public presentation exploring strategies for innovative low-energy design including a discussion of his work at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay. The presentation is tilted “Low [...]
UBC Continuing Studies, the Dept. of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution present Global Islam: Past, Present and Future, a series of free public lectures delivered by some of the world’s most renowned scholars in Islamic studies. As part of this series, Michael Laffan, a professor of [...]
This April Fools day Theatre at UBC will hold its first annual Fun Raiser! at the Frederic Wood Theatre featuring the talents of both theatre students and faculty. The event will also include roller-skating, stilt soccer, fire juggling (poi), stand up comedy, live music, singing and dancing and a silent auction with original art, books, [...]
UBC Engineering announces Douglas Park is the recipient of the inaugural McEwen Family Teacher Recognition Award. He teaches biology and video production at Hugh Boyd Secondary School in Richmond. He was nominated by UBC engineering students Paul Milaire and Kohle Merry. Created to highlight the contributions high-school teachers make to students and communities through their [...]
UBC creative writing alumna Gina Leola Woolsey was successful at the CBC Radio Literary Awards on March 24, nabbing the first prize for creative nonfiction with her story, My Best Friend. My Best Friend narrates thirty-five years of Woolsey’s relationship with her drug-addicted brother. Described by the award jury as “an unflinching and poignant account [...]
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UBC 2011 federal election experts
Mar. 25, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: business, economy, Education, election experts, families, federal election, immigration, law, media commentary, multiculturalism, politics, polls, public opinion, UBC
UBC experts are available to comment on a number of hot topics related to the possible upcoming Canadian election.
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