Posts Tagged ‘philanthropy’

UBC Museum of Anthropology receives private ‘treasure’ of early Bill Reid works

Mar. 5, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

An important collection of early works by one of Canada’s best loved artists, Bill Reid, can be seen by the public for the first time thanks to a major donation to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) from Vancouver’s Friedman family.

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Dismay over ovarian cancer outcomes leads to new professorship

Feb. 20, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: , , , ,

A new professorship created by the family and friends of the late Dr. Chew Wei, a Hong Kong physician who retired to Vancouver, will be devoted to finding new ways of detecting and treating women with ovarian and other gynaecological cancers.

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Donor Peter Allard (left) and Mary Anne Bobinski, Dean of the Faculty of Law. Photo by: Don Erhardt

UBC receives largest single gift to Faculty of Law: Alumnus donates $11.86 million and establishes annual prize for international integrity

Jul. 13, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: , , , , ,

The University of British Columbia has received an $11.86 million gift from law alumnus Peter Allard, which will support the UBC Faculty of Law’s new building, establish an international prize that supports freedom, integrity and human rights, and create an online historical faculty archive.

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