UBC Reports | Vol. 56 | No. 2 | Feb. 8, 2010

Jeff Pain - photo courtesy Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton
When Jeff Pain describes himself as a Type A personality, he’s not kidding.
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With the world gathered to admire those faster, better and stronger, many of us would assume that “richer” tops that list of desired traits.
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Next month, UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA), the Musqueam Indian Band, the Sto:lo Nation, Sto:lo Tribal Council and the U’mista Cultural Society will launch the first-ever digital network of more than 300,000 Northwest Coast objects.
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Bob Hindmarch likes the look of the 2010 Canadian hockey teams.
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Alexa Loo prefers to perform when the heat is on.
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Montreal, 1976: Team Canada wins five silver medals, six bronze – and not a single gold at the Summer Olympic Games. Next up is Calgary, 1988; this time the tally is two silver medals, three bronzes . . . and no gold at the Winter Olympics.
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UBC recently became the first Canadian university to join Yale, Harvard, the US National Institutes of Health and other major institutions as a signatory to the Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical Technologies.
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The first application of UBC’s Global Access principles tackles Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a debilitating disease that affects 12 million people worldwide.
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Graduate students and faculty at UBC Okanagan have joined forces to form a Forensic Psychology Scholar Group that aims to deliver high-quality, practical education and research to the community.
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When Nancy Langton, associate professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, discusses the economic environment of the slums of Kibera, in Nairobi she relays a telling anecdote about the area’s small-business make-up: Too many hair salons, not enough of anything else.
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A husband-and-wife team at UBC is helping ensure that Games volunteers are in tip-top shape.
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“Sustainability is about what kind of world we want to live in.”
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Every athlete dreams of standing on an Olympic podium.
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