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UBC Reports | Vol. 58 | No. 7 | Jul. 4, 2012
UBC Reports
July 2012
UBC swims for Canada
UBC is sending eight members of its swim team to the London 2012 Games, including a 19-year-old from Oakville Ontario who wasn’t supposed to make the team.
Gudrun Jonsdottir
What is lurking in your pool?
PhD student Roberta Dyck, from UBC’s Okanagan campus, investigates what all those chemicals could be doing to swimmers.
Jody Jacob
Facing cancer
In the second installment of a series on animal research, UBC’s Martin Kirk talks about his cancer experience, and how it was affected by technologies that depended on the use of animals.
Brian Lin
UBC’s Olympians and Paralympians
There are 17 confirmed student athletes with their eyes on the prize in London.
Not your backyard badminton
Toby Ng will apply lessons learned in a UBC statistics class when he competes in mixed doubles.
Basil Waugh
A javelin’s throw away from the Olympics
If this is what it means to throw like a girl, the line of boys waiting to take lessons from javelin thrower Liz Gleadle will stretch for miles.
Ashley Castellan
What to expect at London 2012
Games expert Rob VanWynsberghe, who led the 2010 Olympic Games Impact study, answers our questions.
Heather Amos
UBC Olympic and Paralympic history
Student athletes have won 64 Olympic medals and 55 Paralympic medals
Heather Amos and Kyle Farquharson
Hula power
Hawaiin Candace Galla is studying how indigenous languages can be revitalized through dance.
Heather Amos
Being different: a new camp assists kids with unique learning needs
A new UBC summer camp assists children with different learning needs.
Kyle Farquharson
Keen on worker safety
A Global Academics Internship is helping student Gabriela de la Paz, from Mexico, gain confidence
Gudrun Jonsdottir
