The University of British Columbia today announced that it will maintain its membership with Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and will not apply to join the U.S.-based National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The University of British Columbia today announced that it will maintain its membership with Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and will not apply to join the U.S.-based National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Event: An announcement will be made about the future of athletics at UBC at a media conference. Date: Tuesday, April 26 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 6331 Crescent Road, Room 309 Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?345 Media are invited to attend a media conference where UBC President Stephen Toope will make an announcement [...]
Those interested in current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are invited to subscribe to the Asia Pacific Memo series. Twice-weekly, APM publishes short text memos or video interviews at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ April 19 – Tagore in Today’s World – Harvard professor Sugata Bose (video interview) To read the memos, visit http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/
As part of a continuing collaboration between Green College, UBC, and The Global Civic Policy Society directed by former mayor of Vancouver Sam Sullivan, the College is offering UBC students a limited number of complimentary tickets (reg. $12/15) to the next Public Salon on May 4, 2011. The program features actor and branding strategist Kahlil [...]
The UBC Sustainability Initiative aims to get the tweetosphere all a twitter with its “Tweet for the Planet” (or, in the vernacular of Twitter, “#tweet4planet”) campaign. On now until Earth Day (April 22), Tweet for the Planet encourages individuals to share links to their sustainability ideas, projects, research, videos, books, blogs and inspiration using the hashtag [...]
Civil Engineering graduate student Emilie Lapointe is the 2011 Vale Master’s in Engineering Scholarship winner. Awarded by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation, this prestigious $10,000 scholarship is awarded annually to the most promising woman in a graduate engineering program at the master’s level in Canada. Recognized as an outstanding and dedicated member of her community, [...]
Merck Canada has donated lab equipment and supplies valued at approximately $250,000 to the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC. In the fall of 2010, Merck Canada closed the doors of its research facility in Kirkland, Quebec. Although the laboratory was well known for the excellence of its research and the productivity of its scientists, [...]
UBC mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis has been named Fellow of Engineers Canada for his noteworthy achievement and service to the engineering profession. Pakalnis is an expert in developing geotechnical design methods for underground openings. His research areas include applied mine design and design under consolidated backfill. He has consulted/researched more than 100 mines around [...]
The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FoGS) announces that its Graduate Pathways to Success program (GPS) has been chosen to receive the 2010/11 Helen McCrae Award. This annual award is in recognition of a student service that has had a significant positive impact on the student life and student development at UBC. “It was the vision [...]
The UBC Senate yesterday approved the merger of the School of Environmental Health (SOEH) in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies with the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) in the Faculty of Medicine. The SOEH name will no longer be used. Its academic programs, research and personnel will join and enrich SPPH’s Occupational and [...]
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