Pharmaceutical Sciences faculty members Drs. John McNeill and Kishor Wasan, graduate student Andrea Wan, and adjunct professor Dr. Ellen Wasan have been honoured in the 2013 Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences Awards. To read more click here. The Pharmaceutical Sciences Building is the winner of the Northwest Wall and Ceiling Bureau Outstanding Projects of the [...]
School of Engineering associate professor Jonathan Holzman received the Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation in the junior faculty category. He has not only pioneered the Integrated Optics Laboratory and Applied Micro and Nanosystems Facility at UBC’s Okanagan campus, but has developed curriculum, implemented innovations in teaching and learning, encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to learning, and [...]
Nursing associate professor Bernie Garrett is the recipient of the 2013-14 Elizabeth Kenny McCann Scholar Award. His two-year program Innovative Practice to Build Pedagogic Expertise in the School of Nursing is designed to provide mentorship and foster and sustain a climate conducive to optimal learning and professional development for students, faculty and alumni. The new [...]
The Faculty of Applied Science congratulates the Class of 2013 graduates. Over the next few weeks, a few of their rising stars will be featured on this wall of fame.
Many UBC Faculty of Medicine members occupied leadership positions at this year’s Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME) held in April in Quebec City. In the scholarship sphere, 160 were authors on 58 peer-reviewed presentations, including 28 podium presentations, 23 poster presentations, six workshops and one colloquium. Glenn Regehr, Associate Director for Research in the [...]
UBC engineering students Hilary Wong, Heidi Manicke and Andrea Palmer will receive scholarships awarded by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF). They were selected as 2013 recipients based upon their volunteerism, leadership in their communities and serving as ambassadors for the engineering profession. Wong and Manicke will receive the only Vale Inco $10,000 CEMF undergraduate [...]
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom by Leslie A. Robertson, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology, and the Kwagu’l Gixsam Clan, published by UBC Press, is a finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, one of the BC Book Prizes awarded by the West Coast Book [...]
Five projects by members of the UBC Faculty of Medicine have received funding from a national competition for bioinformatics-related research. Genome Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, distributed $6.2 million through the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition. The projects will be conducted over three years. Expected outcomes include improved analytical approaches [...]
Megan Levings, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, is co-leading a clinical trial that aims to improve long-term survival and quality of life for transplant patients. Working with Denis-Claude Roy of the University of Montreal, they will take a technology developed to improve stem cell transplantation and apply it to kidney transplants, with the [...]
Nursing faculty members Cathryn Jackson and Maura MacPhee were recognized by the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC) for their contributions to the profession and for demonstrating excellence in relation to the CRNBC Professional Standards for Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners. For more information, click here.
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