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Archive for February, 2012
Shining stars
School of Journalism professor Alfred Hermida has won the President’s Award for Public Education through Media. He is one of 22 researchers being honoured during this year’s Celebrate Research Week, Mar. 2-9.
Atop Everest for health research
The School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC’s Okanagan campus is sending a 25-member team of international scientists on a six-week research expedition in April to Everest’s Pyramid laboratory.
A new window on patients’ personal struggles
The Interprofessional Health Mentors Program is matching 23 people grappling with chronic conditions with 90 students in a bid to help these future health professionals gain deeper insights into the barriers, frustrations and choices patients face.
Graduate students turn years of research into three-minute speech
UBC holds the Three Minute Thesis competition, where graduate students condense their thesis into a three-minute talk that anyone can understand.
UBC researcher invents “lab on a chip” device to study malaria
University of British Columbia researcher Hongshen Ma has developed a simple and accurate device to study malaria, a disease that currently affects 500 million people per year worldwide and claims a million lives.
UBC This Week 23-Feb-2012
Recent UBC Media Releases Feb. 20 Taking the Earth’s pulse: UBC scientists unveil a new economic and environmental index Feb. 20 Conservation risk highest off coasts of Canada, Mexico, Peru and New Zealand: UBC research Feb. 20 Dismay over ovarian cancer outcomes leads to new professorship Feb. 20 $2M national study on “making it [...]
Asia Pacific Memo update – China Media and Cyberspace / Finnish Education / Marriage Brokers in Malaysia
Twice-weekly, Asia Pacific Memo (APM) series publishes short text memos or video interviews on current issues in Asia and across the Pacific. • Feb. 22 – Becoming a Commercial Marriage Broker in Malaysia, by National University of Singapore researchers • Feb. 16 – How Finnish, not East Asian Education Became a Global Reference, by University of New [...]
SALA Works
UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will host an exhibition of faculty research, writing, and design at Or Gallery in downtown Vancouver. A reception will be held Feb. 27 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Date: Feb. 25 – March 15 Time: Gallery hours Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 5 p.m. Place: Or Gallery, 555 Hamilton Street, [...]
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