Recent UBC Media Releases Jan. 18 UBC campaign hits $1 billion Jan. 21 UBC research: Forget about fair – it’s better when bosses pick favourites Jan. 22 Master switch discovery could provide road map for treatment of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases Jan. 24 Construction begins on Canada’s largest radio telescope Jan. 24 Just [...]
At this month’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Users Group, UBC Anthropology Prof. Michael Blake will talk about his innovative websites in a presentation titled “Chocolate, Corn and Figurines: Mapping Archaeological Data Online.” The event is free and open to the public. Date: January 30 Time: 3 – 4 p.m. Place: Room 216, Koerner Library
UBC will be hosting the Giant Colon Tour, a multimedia exhibition that will provide visitors with tools to help prevent colorectal cancer. Date: February 5, 2013 Time: 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. Place: Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall Info: Click here.
The UBC Finance Club presents Pacific Venture Capitalist Conference & Competition, a full-day event that will give students an opportunity to learn more about the entrepreneur and venture capitalist world. Students can register as an entrepreneur team and submit an authentic start-up idea or invention or register as a venture capitalist team and submit a [...]
The UBC 2013 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating class will host an art and musical event to promote and raise funds for this year’s graduating exhibition “Is it Happening?” which opens in April 2013. A silent art auction will feature works by the graduating class, faculty and staff members of UBC Visual Art. Live musical performances [...]
The fifth annual School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) Student Symposium will focus on “Beyond Downtown and Outside the Box” – a current topic in community and regional planning of SCARP students’ choosing. Date: February 8, 2013 Time: 9 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Place: Graduate Student Society Building, 6371 Crescent Road Info: Register here.
The protection of digital assets is the focus of the UNESCO / UBC Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation, released by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The statement emerged from an international conference, held in Vancouver in September 2012 and organized by UNESCO in co-operation with UBC that focused on the [...]
Held around the world every year, Data Privacy Day empowers people to protect their privacy and the privacy of others. On January 28, 2013, members of the UBC community are encouraged to take a few minutes to learn about the privacy issues that affect them and what they can do to protect themselves and the [...]
UBC alumnus Jason Kalirai has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which recognizes outstanding achievement in observational astronomy by an astronomer under the age of 36. Kalirai received a PhD in Astrophysics from UBC in 2004. He is currently working at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland and serves as the deputy [...]
Professors of Computer Science Holger Hoos and Kevin Leyton-Brown and their empirical algorithmics group have been awarded 5,260,000 processor hours, valued at $315,569, in the nationwide 2013 Compute Canada resource allocation competition, for their research on “Programming by Optimization: Automated Configuration and Selection of Algorithms for Challenging Computational Problems”. This research involves collaborations with IBM, [...]
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