On Nov. 22, 2011, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC hosted an event to unveil design concepts for The Story of Medicines. An interactive exhibition, The Story of Medicines is a hands-on interpretive exhibition that tells the story of pharmacy through multiple perspectives. To view the presentation and learn more, visit http://www.pharmacy.ubc.ca/aboutus/building-information/som
The CBC is looking for the Smartest Person in Canada as part of a two-hour television special. Participants will be chosen from every background and will show potential in logic smarts, social smarts, musical smarts, physical smarts, linguistic smarts and visual smarts. They will be challenged with fun tests to prove they have the most [...]
Interested in current issues in Asia and across the Pacific? Subscribe to the Asia Pacific Memo (APM) series. Twice-weekly, APM publishes short text Memos or video interviews at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca • Nov. 22 – The Philippines’ Labour Export Policies – Pros and Cons • Nov. 17 – Interview with Ezra Vogel on Deng Xiaoping and Chinese [...]
Students from the UBC School of Music will be performing a selection of festive pieces at the Old Auditorium for this free lunch-hour event. Faculty and staff may pick up advance tickets at the Old Auditorium Box Office (hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) Please bring your UBC Card. Departments wishing [...]
From wind tunnel aerodynamics and robotics to nanotechnology and DNA testing, 16 teams of UBC engineering students and researchers will provide a sneak peak on what they’re working on Nov. 26 at the new Wayne and William White Engineering Design Centre. Other highlights include a design contest, demonstrations, lab tours, and presentations. Friends and family [...]
Asst. Prof. Neil Eves, exercise physiologist with the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at the UBC’s Okanagan campus, has been awarded up to $635,000 over the next eight years from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to study how exercise impacts chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is an inflammatory disease characterized by [...]
David Wilkinson from UBC and Elicia Maine of Simon Fraser University (SFU) will share their thoughts on “Harnessing Technological Innovation for a Carbon-free Future.” Wilkinson is a professor and Canada Research Chair at UBC’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and director of UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre. Maine is associate professor at the Beedie [...]
Joy Parr’s Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 published by UBC Press in 2010 has been awarded the Sidney Edelstein Prize by The Society for the History of Technology, an international scholarly society with 1,500 members from more than 35 countries. The prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding scholarly book [...]
Prof. Robert Liston, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, has been appointed Executive Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine. In his new role, Liston will provide strategic coordination and leadership between the Faculty of Medicine and the Health Authorities, and will support clinical faculty members throughout the province. For more information, visit: http://www.med.ubc.ca/__shared/assets/Dr22976.pdf
Prof. David Lowe received the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) “Test of Time” Award for his 1999 paper “Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features”. The award is given to a paper that has shown significant and long term impact on the field of computer vision. Lowe’s paper has been cited more than 3,000 times [...]
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