The UBC Division of Health Care Communication is being awarded one of four national Community-Service Learning awards for their “Community as Teacher” program. For more information and a short video about the program, visit http://www.mcconnellfoundation.ca/en/programs/community-service-learning/csl-awards.
Jehannine Austin, a professor in the UBC Department of Medical Genetics and a member of the Brain Research Centre, has received an inaugural Pfizer Psychiatry Research Award. The $100,000 award will support her research into the effect of genetic counseling on adherence to psychotropic medication in serious mental illness. For more info: http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/975505/pfizer-announces-first-ever-recipients-of-its-psychiatry-research-awards or http://www.brain.ubc.ca.
A UBC research project focused on a bone marrow failure disease recently received funding from the Aplastic Anemia and Myelodysplasia Association of Canada (AAMAC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Dr. Fang Wang at the B.C. Cancer Research Centre and UBC will study the biological mechanisms leading to bone marrow failure and [...]
Three UBC outreach initiatives will get a boost from NSERC’s PromoScience Program this year, with the Michael Smith Laboratories, Life Science Institute and Pacific Museum of the Earth receiving a total of $90,000 in funding from the national competition. For more information, visit: http://science.ubc.ca/news/619.
Twice-weekly, Asia Pacific Memo series publishes short text memos or video interviews on current issues in Asia and across the Pacific at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ Taiwan’s Liberal Values may Corrode China’s Authoritarian System, by Dr. Sonny Lo, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
An exhibition that demonstrates the art of poetry from different Asian cultural traditions is on display at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. This year’s exhibition highlights young artists who are first-generation Asian-Canadians or new immigrants. The Generation One exhibit is part of ExplorASIAN 2012, the 16th annual month-long festival to celebrate Asian Heritage Month [...]
The Baccalaureate Concert is an annual event that features graduating students from the UBC School of Music. The free concert occurs the evening of the first day of the spring congregation ceremonies. Date: May 23 Time: 8 – 9:30 p.m. Place: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Road Info: Free admission. http://www.calendar.events.ubc.ca/s/3Fi
As part of UBC Alumni Weekend, WHO’S THERE? will honour Peter Loeffler, a theatre history professor who inspired generations of students at UBC. Theatrical shorts featuring alumni and students will showcase avant-garde theatre that Loeffler loved, followed by a party. All proceeds will go towards the Peter Loeffler Memorial Prize in Theatre. Date: May 26 Time: 7:30 – [...]
Two world-leading brain researchers will speak about the latest insights on how the brain changes as we age, what we can do about it, and new treatment opportunities for Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Max Cynader, Director of the Brain Research Centre and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, will share the latest research from brain scientists [...]
UBC Library, in cooperation with the Ohio University Libraries, is hosting the fifth WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies. This is the first time UBC has been invited to host the WCILCOS Conference, and the first time it has been hosted in Canada. Eleanor Yuen, Head of UBC’s Asian Library, [...]
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