The stress of scheduling chemotherapy treatments has been substantially reduced by a new technology created and implemented by a team of researchers from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and the BC Cancer Agency.
The stress of scheduling chemotherapy treatments has been substantially reduced by a new technology created and implemented by a team of researchers from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and the BC Cancer Agency.
The University of British Columbia has set up a website to collect donations to help student Rumana Monzur, who was severely beaten in an attack by her husband.
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/. June 21: AMRO – Fleshing out Regional Monetary Cooperation in East Asia June 16: Beijing’s Gamble: Preventing Social Unrest through Policy Reform? June 14: China’s Counterinsurgency Strategy in Tibet and Xinjiang
Betty Fox passed away on June 17, 2011 in Chilliwack, B.C at the age of 73. Involved in all aspects of The Terry Fox Foundation, Fox has spoken to more than 400,000 schoolchildren during 25 years of touring the country with the inspirational story of the Marathon of Hope. A public funeral service will be [...]
UBC Press publications have recently received major Canadian political science, public policy and history awards. Globalizing Citizenship was the recipient of an International Studies Association award. Citizens Adrift: The Democratic Disengagement of Young Canadians, Paul Howe, winner, 2011 Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association Globalizing Citizenship, Kim Rygiel, co-winner, 2011 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, [...]
UBC received two awards at the International Association of Business Communications (IABC) Bronze Quill Awards, which recognizes communications excellence in B.C. Tracy Bains, Kera McArthur, Amanda Fetterly and Ashley Sims (UBC Campus and Community Planning) received an Award of Merit for their Community Relations entry, “Transportation Consultation 2010: UBC Taps the Campus Community for [...]
Mark Bomford writes about UBC and “The Improbable Farm in the World City,” one of 15 case studies in a new book published by the University Press of Kentucky. Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America explores the most influential student farms through North America to give a history of the movement. [...]
Alan Steeves, computer and electronics manager in the UBC Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, is this year’s recipient of the Applied Science Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service. Acknowledged for more than 30 years of outstanding service to UBC, Steeves played a key role in attracting three separate multi-million dollar in-kind donations from the PACE program [...]
Dr. Carlo Marra, associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC, has recently been profiled by Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a pilot project examining the feasibility of using community pharmacists to determine whether or not pregnant women in British Columbia are getting safe anti-hypertension treatment. To read more visit http://www.pharmacy.ubc.ca/aboutus/faculty-news#CMarra.
Jerry Spiegel received the Canadian Public Health Association’s (CPHA) 2011 International Award at the annual CPHA conference in Montreal on June 21, 2011. Spiegel is an associate professor in the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) and the director of the Global Health Research Program in the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC. [...]
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