UBC CiTR Radio’s Prof Talk with host Farha Khan interviews Courtney Booker from the UBC Dept. of History about his research on early medieval history. Every Tuesday, Prof Talk on 101.9FM features live interviews with professors from a variety of disciplines. Date: Feb. 14 Time: 3 p.m. Info: Live programming: http://citr.ca Podcasts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Citr–ProfTalk Show schedule: http://proftalk.ubc.ca/
Current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are published twice-weekly on the Asia Pacific Memo series. To subscribe and read the short text memos, visit: http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ • Feb. 7 – Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal – Victims’ “Right to a Remedy” by Theressa Etmanski, UBC Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Policy Studies and law student [...]
The UBC Faculty of Applied Science and the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) will hold their annual “Old Red New Red” event. As Engineering Week 2012 comes to a close, this event will be a sharing of student team success from the past and present. All are encouraged to bring a colleague – alumnus or not [...]
Harnessing the power of quantum information has game-changing implications for global communications. Information processors that function according to the laws of quantum mechanics promise to vastly outperform their “classical” counterparts. This technology is changing the way that we think about communication and information, and Canadian researchers are leading the way. The Canada Foundation for Innovation [...]
How secure is Canada’s water? What are the greatest threats we face? And what should be our priorities for management and conservation? Researchers from UBC’s Program on Water Governance and invited experts will give a public lecture held in conjunction with the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Speakers include: [...]
UBC Press author Paulette Regan has been shortlisted for The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ (CFHSS) Canada Prize in Social Sciences for her book Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth-telling and Reconciliation in Canada. Awarded annually to one work in French and one in English in each category, the prizes [...]
As part of the UBC Engineering Co-op Program’s continuing assessment of its program and post-graduation employment statistics, a web-based survey was conducted in June 2011. The first-ever co-op alumni survey was sent to 1,378 alumni from the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses and a total of 252 (18.3 per cent) responded. “We are very excited to [...]
The Centre for Advancement of Psychological Science and Law (CAPSL) officially opened on Feb. 3 at UBC’s Okanagan campus. The driving force behind CAPSL is the trio of Zach Walsh, assistant professor of psychology, Mike Woodworth, associate professor in psychology, and Stephen Porter, psychology professor. Each specializes in different areas of psychology and law and [...]
A team of engineering students from UBC’s Okanagan campus took first place at the Western Engineering Competition 2012 in Calgary recently. The team of Clifford Gilker, Devyn Farr, Patrick Finch and Phillip Batt took first place in the Senior Design category. The team was faced with a simulated oil spill to deal with and they [...]
UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers received the Cum Laude best poster award in Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomograpy and Therapy at the International Symposium on medical imaging. The poster was presented by UBC PhD students Narges Afsham and Mohammad Najafi, with professors Purang Abolmaesumi and Robert Rohling. Their research, “Out-of-plane motion estimation based on a Rician-Inverse [...]
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