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UBC Reports Calendar for 98-10-29

A listing of UBC-related or UBC-sponsored events occurring on campus and off campus within the Lower Mainland from November 1 through November 14, 1998. The previous calendar is also available. […]

vol. 44, issue 18

Profile . Offbeat . People . Calendar Annual General Meeting: Nov. 3: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts UBC Annual Report 1997/98 (Adobe Acrobat version, 1.4 MB, October 1998). N.B. […]

UBC Reports Offbeat for 98-10-29

With winds gusting to 64 kilometres per hour, two-metre waves, high tide, crashing logs and four young women trapped at the bottom of a 60-metre cliff, Campus Security knew they […]

UBC Reports People for 98-10-29

Fifth-year Mechanical Engineering student and Thunderbird volleyball star Mike Dalziel was recently named the Canada West Conference’s Most Outstanding Academic All-Canadian at a gala dinner hosted by Royal Bank recently […]

The right mix

Baking soda started Prof. Gail Bellward’s career by Hilary Thomson Staff writer A box of Cow Brand baking soda started Pharmaceutical Sciences Prof. Gail Bellward on a career that has […]

First annual meeting delivers goals to public

More than 200 members of the public as well as representatives from business, labor, education, community groups and government joined UBC President Martha Piper at the University of British Columbia’s […]

Award winners improve students’ lives

The co-ordinator of a highly successful pilot work internship program for English students is among 13 recent winners of the first student development awards. The awards, initiated this year by […]

$50 million gift to give key boost to research

UBC alumnus Dr. Stewart Blusson has donated $50 million to the university, a gift believed to be the largest single donation ever made to a Canadian public institution by an […]

Therapy student’s invention opens doors

by Hilary Thomson Staff writer Doorways are often used to symbolize opportunity and mobility. But for third-year Rehabilitation Sciences student Pamela Andrews they had become symbols of restriction and frustration […]

New institute zeros in on Europe

The newly opened Institute for European Studies in the Faculty of Graduate Studies aims to be a nerve centre for the study of Europe at UBC. “The institute must reflect […]

Community marks Nov. 11 with memorial service

The foyer of War Memorial Gym will be the setting for UBC’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony Nov. 11 beginning at 10:45 a.m. Barry McBride, vice-president, Academic, Brian Fraser, dean of […]

Schizophrenia, mood disorders, subject of public forum

Event: Public forum on schizophrenia and mood disorders Date: Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998 Time: 9 a.m.-noon (schizophrenia); 1-3 p.m. (mood disorders) Place: British Ballroom, Hotel Vancouver, 900 West Georgia St. […]

UBC researchers to put math to work in applications from medicine to finance

University of British Columbia researchers at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) will help develop mathematical tools and models for applications ranging from biomedical to financial thanks to […]