UBC This Week 21-Nov-2013

UBC Nursing professors Sally Thorne and Pam Ratner have won awards from the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) to recognize their achievements in nursing research and education leadership. At a ceremony held in Ottawa, CASN presented the Excellence in Nursing Research Award to Ratner to recognize her accomplishments as a researcher, commitment to mentorship of nursing students, and contributions in strengthening the profile of nursing research. The Ethel Johns Award was presented to Thorne for her leadership in enhancing nursing education at the doctoral level and strengthening the quality of nursing education and the profession. To read more, click here.

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Emily Morris, a masters student in Genetic Counselling at UBC, was awarded the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – Masters following a nomination by the B.C. Mental Health and Addictions Research Institute, which co-supported the project. The award recognizes her innovation related to evaluating the relationship between mental health stigma and how medical professionals, in particular medical geneticists, treat patients with a rare genetic syndrome. Her work suggests a strategy for improving outcomes for patients through early treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Morris is one of five Mitacs award winners nationally who are chosen from thousands of researchers who take part in Mitacs programs each year. For more information, visit www.mitacs.ca.

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Debbie Harvie, managing director of University Community Services at UBC, has been selected to receive the Order of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) Eagle Award, the association’s highest honour. The award recognizes outstanding service to NACS and the college store industry. Harvie has been with UBC for 23 and a half years and began her collegiate retailing career in 1985 as manager of Simon Fraser University Bookstore. For more information, click here.

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The Pharmaceutical Sciences Building has won the Grand Prix d’Excellence in the Ordre des architectes du Québec’s 27th Annual Awards of Excellence in Architecture. For more information, click here.

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Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD candidate Maryam Khoshnoodi has won Best Student Presentation at the Association for Environmental Health Sciences Foundation’s 29th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy. Khoshnoodi’s winning platform presentation was titled “Environmental Mineralogy Study of Arsenic in a Biological Passive Treatment System.” For more info, click here.

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Graduate students from every discipline are invited to the next FIREtalk event, “Learning Machines.” Presented by Koerner Library’s Research Commons, presenters from various UBC departments will each give a five-minute talk on an aspect of their research (social bots, robots, brain mining, transcranial stimulation, and machine learning about human beings) followed by an interdisciplinary discussion with the graduate student audience.

Date:  Nov. 27
Time:  4 to 6 p.m.
Place:  Dodson Room (302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall
Info: Click here

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A memorial service will be held to commemorate the 14 women who were killed at L’École Polytechnique de Montréal on Dec. 6, 1989 and other victims of gender-based violence.

Date: Nov. 28
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Place: Wayne & William White Engineering Design Centre, 2345 East Mall
Info: Reception to follow. More info, click here.

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At the UBC Engineering Open House, engineers will demonstrate how they help prevent disease, reduce poverty and create solutions that protect the planet through demonstrations, lab tours and informative presentations.

Date: Nov. 30
Time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Place: 2332 Main Mall
Info: RSVP here

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