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UBC This Week 16-May-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:13:52 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
May 15	“Fish thermometer” reveals long-standing, global impact of climate change
May 14	Cardio and weight training reduces access to health care in seniors
May 13	Expert panel events for B.C. election
May 13	For tastier food, try a dash of workplace injustice

	Upcoming Event Highlights
May 17	The Science of Locust Swarms: From Individuals to Cannibal Hordes
May 17	Intercultural Studies Spring Symposium
May 18	UBC Slam Workshop
May 18	AIESEC UBC is Hiring this May!
May 19	The Protestant Chinese Bible – The First Centenary” (基督教華文聖經百年翻譯史) exhibit
May 20	Toastmasters Club Open House at UBC Point Grey Campus
May 21	The Wall Exchange: Bugs ‘R Us: The Role of Microbes in Health, Disease and Society
May 21	The rocket science of sustainability: What alien worlds teach us about our own
May 21	Breast Cancer Prevention & Risk Assessment Clinic
May 22	Baccalaureate Concert
May 22	Co-Facilitation: Two or Three Heads are Better than One…
May 23	WordPress Clinic
May 23	UBC Poetry Slam
May 24	Macronutrient intake, hormones, and cancer
May 25	Learn to Love Lieder: Rena Sharon lecture/recital. Part of UBC Alumni Weekend

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 09-May-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:21:43 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
May 9	Which B.C. party is better at fiscal management? UBC prof provides independent assessment
May 9	UBC Okanagan Heat teams make grade to stay in Canada West loop
May 9	Rich or poor, giving makes you happy: global research finds rare evidence of universal trait
May 7	UBC hosts gathering of international university presidents, students

	Upcoming Event Highlights
May 9	Discover the beauty of [a]drift
May 9	Cities by the Water: Postcolonial History and Participation of Newcomers
May 10	Creating Connections: Working Together to Transform Our World
May 10	No Burqas Behind Bars
May 10	Keynote Lecture by Architect, Charles Renfro
May 11	Wild Edible Walking Tour
May 11	A Growing Affair 2013
May 11-12	UBC Science Rendezvous
May 12	Sarah Kwok, Viola (DMA Solo Recital)
May 13	GPS Event: Getting Back on Track with your Thesis
May 13	Current Directions in the Management of Social Anxiety in Adults
May 14	Career Crash Course – Arts
May 14	Seniors Tennis
May 15	Rising to the challenge: Advanced bread baking at home
May 15	Career Crash Course – Arts
May 16	Workshop: How to Better Support Your Patients’ Return to Work
May 16	Academic Writing for Graduate Students in the Sciences and Engineering
May 21	The Wall Exchange: Bugs ‘R Us: The Role of Microbes in Health, Disease and Society
May 25	Alumni Weekend

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 02-May-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:27:13 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
May 1	Let the shredding begin: North America’s first campus skatepark opens at UBC
Apr 29	UBC bootcamp helps aspiring politicians shape up for government
Apr 25	Top photographer and much-loved poet to receive honorary degrees

	Upcoming Event Highlights
May 3-Jun 2	UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2013
May 3	Radio Free Stein: “For the Country Entirely. A Play in Letters”
May 3	UBCO Staff & Faculty Sports Day
May 4	Urban Organic Gardening Class
May 4	Hatched, Matched and Dispatched: The Clothing Rituals of Birth, Marriage and Death
May 5	Annual UBC Pharmacy Alumni No-Host Spring Brunch
May 5	Strawberry Poison Frogs are Way Cool Because…
May 6	One Shot Workshops
May 6	Educating for Translating the World
May 7	The Ninth D. Harold Copp Lecture
May 7	Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) Info Session
May 8	What Does Flexible Learning Look Like?
May 8	Doctoral Exam Preparation and Thesis Submission (webinar)
May 9-11	How Mindfulness Helps Children Thrive
May 9	Discover the beauty of [a]drift
May 9	Cities by the Water: Postcolonial History and Participation of Newcomers
May 25	Alumni Weekend

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 25-Apr-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:23:33 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Apr. 19	Vancouver campus deploys new $5.1M ‘smart grid’ energy storage system

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Apr. 25	Fifty years in Serengeti: The story behind the science
Apr. 26	Intro to Cheesemaking
Apr. 25	Hamletmachine
Apr. 26	Dr. Roger Lewis: The Motivation, Promise and Success of Bayesian Adaptive Trial Design
Apr. 27	POV Film Festival
Apr. 27	The Chan Centre Presents: Simon Shaheen in “The Call: Songs of Liberation”
Apr. 28	Todah 2013: Celebrating the Bregman Years
Apr. 29	Teens Only – Creative Writing
Apr. 29	Writers & Music: Featuring UBC Creative Writing & School of Music students
Apr. 30	Super-resolution microscopy: Breaking the diffraction barrier
Apr. 30	Addressing Problematic Feeding Behaviours Using a Behavioural Approach
May 1	Learning from End-of-course Feedback
May 1	Rachel Iwaasa – Pianist
May 2-4	The Intersection of Language, Learning and Culture in Early Childhood: Home School and Community Contexts
May 2	Start Early, Go Far; Early Assessment Leads to Understanding and Inclusive Communities

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 18-Apr-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:56:49 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Apr. 18	$25M grant brings African students to UBC
Apr. 16	Vroum vroum – Test of metal for student engineered hovercrafts
Apr. 16	Anxious about life? Tylenol may do the trick
Apr. 15	UBC experts for B.C. election
Apr. 15	Expedition team releases photographs of threatened double-barrier reef
Apr. 12	Spinal cord researchers to benefit from $20 M investment from Rick Hansen Foundation

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Apr. 18	The Search for Happiness
Apr. 18	Is It Happening
Apr. 19	2013 Nursing Graduate Student Research Symposium
Apr. 19	Tim Lilburn and Lake Launch
Apr. 20	Vancouver Brain Bee
Apr. 20	Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists Opening Reception
Apr. 21	Horticulture Training Program – Info Session
Apr. 21	Chan Centre presents: Lila Downs
Apr. 22	Using Sources: How to Maintain Authorial Agency and Avoid Plagiarism
Apr. 22	Mobile Commerce
Apr. 23	Biodiversity in the Garden Lecture
Apr. 23	Purple & Yellow Bike Mechanics Work Party
Apr. 24	Community screenings: First Nations Film Topics
Apr. 24	Stand Up for Mental Health
Apr. 25	Fifty years in Serengeti: the story behind the science
Apr. 25	Hamletmachine
Apr. 27	POV Film Festival
Apr. 27	The Chan Centre Presents: Simon Shaheen in “The Call: Songs of Liberation”

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 11-Apr-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:20:25 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Apr. 10	Doctors not informed of harmful effects of medicines during sales visits
Apr. 8	Canada loses out on drug pricing: UBC study
Apr. 8	Healthy doctors make healthy patients, study finds
Apr. 5	Blood pressure medication may cause fainting when used for other ailments

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Apr. 12	Walking the Labyrinth: A vessel for mindfulness
Apr. 12	Forestry: Open House
Apr. 13	Invoking Venus Talk: Fauna in Fashion
Apr. 13	Indigenous Gala
Apr. 14	Danielle Fortin, Euphonium & Kate Kim, Oboe (3rd Year Joint Recital)
Apr. 14	Colin Van de Reep, Percussion (M.Mus Solo Recital)
Apr. 15	Work Environment of Physicians and Quality of Healthcare in Japan
Apr. 15	Toastmasters Club Open House at UBC Point Grey Campus
Apr. 16	WordPress Basics
Apr. 16	Teacher Education Office: Early Alert Orientation Session
Apr. 17	People and places: A health geography approach to preventing cancer
Apr. 17	Eduvation
Apr. 18	Learning from End-of-Course Feedback
Apr. 18	Fostering health equity through the meaningful involvement of urban Indigenous people in health policy
Apr. 20	Vancouver Brain Bee

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 04-Apr-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:55:53 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Apr. 4	Teacher ed comes to the world’s largest refugee camp
Apr. 4	UBC International College program gets Board of Governors’ support
Apr. 3	Stephen Toope to leave UBC presidency in June 2014
Apr. 3	Chinese foreign fisheries catch 12 times more than reported: UBC research

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Apr. 4	What kind of divide separates biology from culture?
Apr. 4	World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival – Grand opening
Apr. 5	AMS Block Party
Apr. 5	Pollay Prize Marketing Lecture
Apr. 6	Waylon Ye, Saxophone (3rd Year Solo Recital)
Apr. 6-7	Magnolia day tours
Apr. 7	Jumping spiders are way cool because…
Apr. 8	UBC Composers Concerts
Apr. 9	The Elysée Treaty: 50 Years of French-German Partnership. What Does it Mean to Europe?
Apr. 9	Preserving the Endangered
Apr. 10	Complicating the Entrepreneurial Self: Professional Chinese Immigrant Women Negotiating Occupations in Canada
Apr. 10	2013 Sedgewick Lecture
Apr. 11	Indigenous Knowledge and Research
Apr. 11	Tears of Rangi: Water, Power, and People in New Zealand
Apr. 20	Vancouver Brain Bee

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 28-Mar-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:48:41 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Mar. 26	Mountain pine beetle genome decoded
Mar. 25	Global companies beware: Rude customer treatment depends on culture

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Mar. 28	Voice of the Earth: UBC Bands – Music of David Maslanka
Mar. 29	Blood Relations
Mar. 30	University Singers and UBC Choral Union: The Waking
Mar. 30	Destination South Asia Conference
Mar. 31	Esther Shalev-Gerz Exhibition
Apr. 1	Toastmasters Club Open House at UBC Point Grey Campus
Apr. 2	Jane Ward (UC-Riverside) ‘It’s Not a Gay Thing; it’s a Guy Thing!’
Apr. 2	Faculty Women’s Club: Speaker & AGM
Apr. 3-4	ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
Apr. 3-7	Brave New Play Rites Festival
Apr. 3	Public Salon: Inspiring Ideas, hosted by Sam Sullivan
Apr. 4	University-Wide Orientation for new UBC Staff
Apr. 4	World Poetry International Festival – Inspire Peace!


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 21-Mar-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:58:05 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Mar. 21	Planck space mission sheds light on the Universe
Mar. 20	UBC experts for comment on budget 2013
Mar. 20	Dr. James Hogg given national award for leadership in medicine
Mar. 19	First Nations advocate and eco-activist among honorary degree recipients
Mar. 18	Engineering students demo ultra fuel-efficient cars
Mar. 15	Eight Canada Research Chairs valued at $4.5M appointed at UBC
Mar. 15	Coding for a cause: UBC computer science students stage first community hackathon
Mar. 15	UBC clubfoot treatment in Bangladesh gains $4.3M federal boost

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Mar. 21	Navigating “A Wasting World”: Perspectives on Environmentalism and Sustainability in Canada
Mar. 22	Grand Rounds: Global Gadgets for Global Health
Mar. 22	The Digital Tattoo Project: Think Before You Ink
Mar. 23	11th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium
Mar. 23	One Day @ UBC: Random Encounters: Philosophical, Scientific and Artistic Reflections on Chance
Mar. 24	Drawing Nature Class
Mar. 24	UBC Percussion Ensemble
Mar. 25	From Ganga to Nile: States, Space and The Power of Shadow Armies
Mar. 25	Life Cycle Assessment: A Practical Introduction to the Science of Sustainability
Mar. 26	GPS/LCC Workshop: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Mar. 26	Purple & Yellow Bike Mechanics Work Party
Mar. 27-28	Chinese Political Transition of 2012-2013
Mar. 28	UBC Chinese Music Ensemble
Apr. 2	Gender and East Germany


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 14-Mar-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:31:21 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Mar. 14	Announcement of CIDA-UBC partnership to improve children’s health in developing country
Mar. 14	Largest number of medical residents to be trained in British Columbia
Mar. 12	$30M partnership of Canadian, Indian institutions officially launched at UBC
Mar. 12	Friend or foe: Babies choose sides early
Mar. 11	Ready. Set. Go. The Three Minute thesis is back

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Mar. 15-16	2013 Relay for Life UBC
Mar. 15	The Hungry Ghost: A Biospsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism
Mar. 15	UBC Symphony Orchestra – Solo singers from the Voice and Opera Division
Mar. 16	UBC Archeology Day 2013
Mar. 16-17	THINKfast 2013
Mar. 18	Spring MECH department lab tours
Mar. 18	Genomes, feathers and flight: comparative genomics of birds and other reptiles
Mar. 19	Breast Cancer Prevention & Risk Assessment Clinic
Mar. 19	Mindful Approaches – Preparing Students for Exams
Mar. 20	Islam and Music: A Mystical Journey
Mar. 20	Literature between Bookspace and New Literacy Space: Towards a Connective Ethnography of Children’s Literature and Digital Media
Mar. 21	Navigating “A Wasting World”: Perspectives on Environmentalism and Sustainability in Canada
Mar. 21	Canadian Studies First Ever Alumni Event
May 28	India in the Chinese Buddhist Imagination


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 07-Mar-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:03:57 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Mar. 6	Drugs targeting blood vessels may be candidates for treating Alzheimer’s
Mar. 5	UBC members recognized in Life Sciences BC awards

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Mar. 7-10	Western Canadian University and Colleges Tennis Championship
Mar. 8	ICICS-ECE-IEEE Workshop on Future Communications and Multimedia Systems
Mar. 9	Local to Global: Weaving Your Own Web
Mar. 10	Learning Music with a Learning Disability: Gifts and Challenges
Mar. 11	Second Wave of Globalization: Political Economy of India’s IT Outsourcing Industry
Mar. 11	Violin masterclass with Vadim Gluzman
Mar. 12	Below-grade Vancouverism: Rents and work in the livable city
Mar. 12	A Tale of Two Cultures: The Western Classics in Modern China
Mar. 13	Artist’s Talk – Garry Neill Kennedy
Mar. 13	First Nations Youth Councils of British Columbia Association Presents “Sharing Your Wisdom”
Mar. 14	ISGP & IS Lecture Series: Recent research on HIV/AIDS: Scientific and social policy issues
Mar. 14	Navigating “a wasting world”: Perspectives on environmentalism and sustainability in Canada
Mar. 28	The 4th Annual Dean of Arts Prize for the Best Essay in Visual Literacy – deadline for submissions

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 28-Feb-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:05:27 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Feb. 28	Rapid transit key to unlocking potential of UBC/Broadway corridor: study
Feb. 27	$2M from BCLC and the Province creates Centre for Gambling Research at UBC
Feb. 27	Canadian adult obesity at historic high
Feb. 27	Better than polls? UBC launches prediction market for B.C. Election
Feb. 25	Doing good is good for you: Volunteer adolescents enjoy healthier hearts
Feb. 25	Catfight? Workplace conflicts between women get bad rap

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Mar. 1	Research Symposium: Living All Our Relations: Ecologies, Technologies and Indigeneity
Mar. 1	Abstract Spaces of Asia, Indochina and Empire in French Imaginaire
Mar. 2	iCON Chinese Healthy Lifestyle Changes Workshop
Mar. 2	UBC REC Leagues All-Star Day
Mar. 3	CBC’s Cross Country Checkup on “Religion and Public Life”
Mar. 3	Opera Tea on the Stage
Mar. 4	UBC Contemporary Players
Mar. 4	Revitalizing Tohoku, Japan After the 3.11 Earthquake and Tsunami
Mar. 5	Vancouver Coastal Health ReAct Adult Protection Program
Mar. 5	Is the future black?
Mar. 6	Understanding Your Community Impact: UBC-CLI Learning Community
Mar. 6	UBC Bookstore Student Appreciation Sale
Mar. 7	When I Woke Up, the Dinosaur was Still There
Mar. 7	Cryptography: Secrets and lies, knowledge and trust


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 21-Feb-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:49:06 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Feb. 21	New flu drug stops virus in its tracks
Feb. 20	New $10.1 M imaging facility will unlock medical, engineering secrets
Feb. 19	UBC experts for B.C. budget analysis
Feb. 19	Private premiums add up to largest out-of-pocket health expense for Canadians
Feb. 17	Arrhythmia culprit caught in action
Feb. 17	As predators decline, carbon emissions rise

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Feb. 21	Electric Vehicles: Matching Low-Carbon Technology to People and Policy
Feb. 21	Robson Reading Series Presents Walid Bitar, Basma Kavanagh, and Missy Marston
Feb. 22-24	Hacking Health Vancouver
Feb. 22	Ryan Avery, Toastmasters International Public Speaking Champion
Feb. 23	VSO: Classical Traditions – Bramwell Tovey & Jeanette Jonquil
Feb. 23	How Dogs Think
Feb. 24	One Mind, One Heart – Artist Talk and Dance Performance (Ian Reid)
Feb. 24	Augustin Hadelich, violin & Joyce Yang, piano
Feb. 25	The Top 7 Reasons Why Smart Women Should Speak Up
Feb. 25	Pray the Devil Back to Hell – International Development Movie Night
Feb. 26	The Role and Effectiveness of ‘Band-aid’
Feb. 26	Sid Katz: Confessions of a UBC Lifer
Feb. 26	Anabel Quan-Hasse (Western Ontario) The Downside of Online Social Capital: Romantic Break-ups and Facebook
Feb. 27	Attacking your opponent – Tennis Workshop
Feb. 27	Discussion on Identity
Feb. 28	Off-Campus Work Permit Workshop
Feb. 28	UBC Early Music Ensembles
Mar. 7	Journey from Biodiversity and Culture to Biocultural Diversity (with Nancy Turner)

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 14-Feb-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:14:59 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Feb. 14	Bilingual babies know their grammar by seven months
Feb. 11	Computerized ‘Rosetta Stone’ reconstructs ancient languages

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Feb. 14	Cognitive Capital: Where Political Economy Meets Media Theory
Feb. 14	Schlumberger Employer Information Session
Feb. 15	UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble & UBC Concert Winds: Shadow of Sirius
Feb. 15	Lost & Found in Armenia
Feb. 16	The Chan Centre Presents: Pablo Ziegler Quartet with Regina Carter in “Tango Meets Jazz”
Feb. 16	One Day @ UBC: Can Anyone Own Digital Material?
Feb. 17	Young Artists Concerto Gala
Feb. 18	Tennis – ServeTennis Workshop
Feb. 19	CREATE Seminar: The Awkwardness of the M Word: Canadian Multicultural Education After the Death of Multiculturalism
Feb. 19	Breast Cancer Prevention & Risk Assessment Clinic
Feb. 20	Adverse Drug-Related Events and Hospital Visits: How Big Is The Problem?
Feb. 20	Building Positive Relationships with Indigenous Groups and Communities
Feb. 21	Pagan Worlds in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Feb. 21	Robson Reading Series Presents Walid Bitar, Basma Kavanagh, and Missy Marston
Feb. 27	Discussion on Identity


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 07-Feb-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:44:33 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Feb. 6	New tool helps towns assess resources needed for bioenergy plant
Feb. 5	Blowing hot and cold: U.S. belief in climate change shifts with weather
Feb. 4	Body language can predict outcomes for recovering alcoholics
Feb. 1	Social Media and Health: The Good, the Bad and the Possible

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Feb.7-May 5	Invoking Venus: Feathers and Fashion
Feb. 8-17	FestEvolve 2013: Celebrating Charles Darwin and the Evolution of Life
Feb. 8	UBC Engineering Undergraduate Society Career Fair 2013
Feb. 9	International Humanitarian Law Day
Feb. 9	Rhinoceros
Feb. 10	Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc
Feb. 10	BC CSSA X 2013 Spring Festival Gala
Feb. 11	Tennis – Forehand Tennis Workshop
Feb. 12	Jazz Ensemble I
Feb. 12	Drug Resistance In HIV: What Can We Do About It?
Feb. 13	Putting Whiteness in Crisis: White Gazes, Black Bodies
Feb. 13	Rexercise- Street Soccer
Feb. 14	Partnership in Research Seminar: Got health?
Feb. 14	University Singers and UBC Choral Union: Singet dem Herrn
Feb. 14	ISGP & IS Lecture Series: Dr. David Farrar: Why do universities love disciplinary studies more than they love interdisciplinary studies?


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 31-Jan-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:43:45 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Jan. 28	When food porn holds no allure: the science behind satiety
Jan. 28	UBC building wins prestigious Wallpaper* Magazine design award
Jan. 28	UBC MBA up 25 places in Financial Times Global MBA Ranking
Jan. 29	BC Skills deficit looming in 2016: More jobs than qualified people unless post-secondary capacity expanded
Jan. 30	Where’s the puck? Time-lapse video shows extreme makeover of UBC rink to Davis Cup tennis court
Jan. 30	Idle No More Teach-in at UBC

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Feb. 1	Yworld Hackathon Information Session
Feb. 1	Jazz Improvisation Masterclass Jim Snidero
Feb. 1	UBC First Nations House of Learning Idle No More Teach-in
Feb. 2	Performance Studio Concert
Feb. 2	One Day @ UBC: Contemporary First Nations Art
Feb. 3	BrassFest!
Feb. 4	Social Media for Health: The Good, The Bad, The Possible
Feb. 5	Giant Colon Tour
Feb. 5	Working with Diversity: UBC-CLI Learning Community
Feb. 6	Teaching Reconciliation in Canadian Universities
Feb. 6	Idle No More: Ideas and Innovative Solutions for the Future
Feb. 7	February 2013 University-wide New Faculty & Staff Welcome Orientation
Feb. 7	The Last God King of Cambodia: Norodom Sihanouk, his Life and Times
Feb. 14	ISGP & IS Lecture Series: Dr. David Farrar: Why do universities love disciplinary studies more than they love interdisciplinary studies?


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 24-Jan-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:46:44 +0000

	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 for one day: UBC’s popular community courses on campus begin winter session

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Jan. 24	Buddhist Rulers and Rulers of Buddhists: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Medieval China
Jan. 24	Robson Reading Series with Julie Devaney and Gary Geddes
Jan. 25	Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race
Jan. 25	Mark Balaguer (California State Uni) “Why the Debate Over Composition is Factually Empty”
Jan. 25	SPPH-OEH Seminars: Communicating radiation risk and the Internet: what can we learn from the Fukushima nuclear incident?
Jan. 26	Winter Market – Cycling Resource Centre
Jan. 26	UBC Thunderbirds Men’s Hockey vs. Mount Royal Cougars
Jan. 27	Opera Tea on the Stage
Jan. 28	Writing Your Science Fiction or Fantasy Screenplay (100% Online)
Jan. 28	Wall Scholars Café: Does our democracy need an update?
Jan. 29	Genomics in Primary Care: What’s Ready for Prime Time? Part A
Jan. 29	Zumba
Jan. 29	Beat the blues sale
Jan. 30	Practice your Presentation Skills Level 1
Jan. 30	Wednesday Noon Hours – Gamelan Gita Asmara
Jan. 31	Esther Birney Lecture: “Suffrage Literature: The Poetry of Alice Duer Miller”
Jan. 31	Avanade Employer Information Session


	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 17-Jan-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:23:36 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Jan. 15	UBC receives $22.7M for research from the Canada Foundation for Innovation
Jan. 15	UBC and Fraunhofer Society enter $4.9 million clean energy partnership
Jan. 14	Opening of Vij’s Kitchen at UBC

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Jan. 17-19	Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition
Jan. 18	UBC Teacher Career Fair 2013
Jan. 18	Dodson Music Series – Goethe Readings
Jan. 19	TechTrek Saturday Workshops
Jan. 19	UBC Thunderbirds Women’s Basketball vs. Regina Cougars
Jan. 21-25	KIN Week
Jan. 21-25	UBC Science Week 2013
Jan. 21	Social Justice @ UBC Noted Scholars: Dr. Mel Y. Chen
Jan. 21	Wall Scholars Cafe: Changing social norms on climate change locally: can we and should we?
Jan. 22	Divisional Concert: Winds Brass & Percussion
Jan. 22	Geography Colloquium – Luke Bergmann: Beyond the Anthropocene
Jan. 23	Hospitals, Culture, and the History of Japanese Hospital Care in BC
Jan. 23	Third Age Partners in Learning – Canada and the United States: Sharing a Continent
Jan. 24	California Kick Ball
Jan. 24	Robson Reading Series with Julie Devaney and Gary Geddes

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 10-Jan-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:58:34 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Jan. 10	Film produced by UBC student goes to Sundance

	Upcoming Event Highlights
Jan. 11-Apr. 14	Belkin Art Gallery exhibition: Esther Shalev-Gerz
Jan. 11	Identity and Intergroup Relations
Jan. 11	UBC Thunderbirds Women’s Volleyball vs. Winnipeg Wesman
Jan. 12	UBC REC vs SFU REC Classic
Jan. 12	Mandatory Co-op Workshop
Jan. 14	Mobify Employer Information Session
Jan. 15	The Kano Durbar: Political Spectacle and the Wobbly Stool of Power
Jan. 15	Divisional Concert: Strings
Jan. 15	UBC Certificate in Garden Design – Information Session
Jan. 16	Denim Day: Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Jan. 16	Physics & Astronomy Welcome Orientation for Women (for first year, grades 11 & 12 students)
Jan. 16	Health Insurance Workshop for International Students
Jan. 17	GPS/Life & Career Centre Event: Perfectionism
Jan. 17	Time for Tag!
Jan. 17	Youth Circle: Indigenous Role Models Gino Odjick & Peter Leech – “Bullying and the Wheel of Fear”

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC This Week 03-Jan-2013

lbosshart — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:00:01 +0000

	Recent UBC Media Releases
Jan. 2	Four UBC professors appointed to Order of Canada
Dec. 26	Kindness key to happiness and acceptance for children
Dec. 19	The Next Big Thing: UBC researchers predict game-changers that could rock our world
Dec. 19	For power and status, dominance and skill trump likability
Dec. 18	UBC scientists part of three PhysicsWorld’s top 10 breakthroughs
Dec. 14	UBC releases 2011 statistics of animals involved in research

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Jan. 4	Tandem UBC Registration Opens
Jan. 4	UBC Colloquium Series – Dr. Robin Attas: Meter and Motion in Pop/Rock Backbeats
Jan. 4	UBC Thunderbirds Men’s Hockey vs. Calgary Dinos
Jan. 5-30	Truths and Consequences Art Exhibition
Jan. 7-13	UBC REC Shopping Week – Free classes
Jan. 7	How to live a happy married life in Buddhism
Jan. 7	Toastmasters Club Open House at UBC Point Grey Campus
Jan. 8	Breast Cancer Prevention & Risk Assessment Clinic
Jan. 8-9	Karaoke at The Gallery
Jan. 9	Winning Wednesdays
Jan. 9	Grant Writing Fundamentals – Part 3
Jan. 10	Youth Circle: Aboriginal Play it Forward Sports Foundation
Jan. 10	International Volcano Monitoring Fund
Jan. 11-Apr. 14	Belkin Art Gallery exhibition: Esther Shalev-Gerz

	Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

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