In ceremonies in Vancouver and the Okanagan, more than 7,500 students celebrate and receive UBC degrees
Archive for May, 2011
UBC grads don cap and gown for week of Vancouver campus ceremonies
More than 6,500 students will graduate this week as UBC holds ceremonies at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. They will join more than 250,000 UBC alumni worldwide.
On whether a smile is attractive
Men and women respond very differently to displays of emotion, including smiles
UBC’s Vancouver campus grad ceremonies start Wednesday, May 25
Graduation begins Wednesday, May 25 at UBC’s Vancouver campus.
UBC launches “Name that Spider” contest to mark International Biodiversity Day, May 22
UBC’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum is asking Canadian arachnid fans to help name a species of jumping spider discovered last year by museum scientists in the jungles of Ecuador.
UBC This Week
Recent UBC Media Releases May 18: Emmy-winning 60 Minutes producer Peter Klein to lead UBC Graduate School of Journalism May 17: UBC student wins Trudeau Scholarship May 12: Interactive teaching methods double learning in large undergraduate physics class: UBC research Upcoming Event Highlights May 20: Winner of the 2011 Richard W. Pollay Prize speaks at [...]
Asia Pacific Memo update – Singapore’s Election / Thai-Cambodia Border Clashes
Twice-weekly, Asia Pacific Memo publishes short text memos or video interviews on current issues in Asia and across the Pacific at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/. Recently, two memos by UBC alumni were published: May 17: Turn of Tide: Singapore’s Watershed Election 2011 May 10: Thai-Cambodia Border Clashes – What’s Fuelling them?
Sauder instructor launches book
Sauder School of Business instructor Boyd Cohen, who teaches sustainable entrepreneurship for the MBA program, celebrated the launch of his new book this week with special guest Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is leading Vancouver’s efforts to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. In Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change, [...]
UBC engineers win Excellence in Engineering Design award
UBC engineering students Kevin Lowe, Hengameh Hoseini , Rory Moglove and Andrea Slade have been awarded the 2011 Dr. Jim McEwen Excellence in Engineering Design Award from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Society of British Columbia for their assistive reading device for people living with ALS. The students developed a way to connect a variety of [...]
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