Media Release | Feb. 4, 1999
Building a baby-friendly Canada
Health Canada has awarded more than $250,000 to Roberta Hewat,
an assistant professor in UBC's School of Nursing, to help implement
the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative. A far-reaching outcome
will be to establish breastfeeding as the cultural norm in Canada.
Research shows that investments in breastfeeding promotion are among
the most cost-effective health interventions available. Hewat is
the senior chair of the Breastfeeding Committee of Canada and an
internationally certified lactation consultant at the Breastfeeding
Support Service Clinic, located at UBC.
- Contact: Asst. Prof. Roberta Hewat, School of Nursing,
604.822.7464
Lego a building block in innovative device
UBC research engineers used everything from low-tech LegoTM
to high-tech blood measurement concepts to create a revolutionary
new instrument for the pulp and paper industry. The Fibre Quality
Analyzer (FQA) has been sold around the world and earned a 1998
NSERC/Conference Board of Canada Synergy Award for university-industry
R&D partnerships. Lego was used in a test bed to develop the
sophisticated video imaging system which analyzes 100 pulp fibres
a second.
- Contact: Richard Kerekes, director, Pulp and Paper Centre,
604.822.8560
Chinese legal expert to head Institute for Asian Research
Law Prof. Pitman Potter has been appointed director of UBC's Institute
for Asian
Research. The institute houses six research centres focusing on
different regions of Asia and the Pacific: China, Japan, Korea,
Southeast Asia, India and South Asia, and Australia. Potter speaks
Mandarin and is an expert on the Chinese legal system. He will continue
to teach law.
- Contact: Prof. Pitman Potter, director, Institute for
Asian Research, 604.822.4686
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UBC Public Affairs
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