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Recent UBC Media Releases
- Apr. 30: Students and alumni jockey for 4,000 Winter Games opportunities at UBC 2010 careers fair
- Apr. 30: New centre to advance sustainability and social innovation in business
- Apr. 28: Career public servant to become UBC’s next Registrar
- Apr. 24: Snowboard Landing Pad inspired by accident: UBC student to take invention on tour
Upcoming Event Highlights
Visit UBCevents, UBC’s new campus-wide calendar: www.events.ubc.ca
- May 1: 2010 Opportunities Fair
- May 2: Investigating Our Practices 2009
- May 4: Intercultural Studies Spring Institute
- May 5: Learning Technology Institute: Wimba’s Live Classroom
- May 6: Evidence-Based Palliative Care: Realistic Option or Oxymoron?
- May 7: Lignification Of Plant Cell Walls
Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at www.gothunderbirds.ca/schedule.asp.
UBC People
- UBC researchers announced in first phase of CERC competition
- Nominees for YWCA Women of Distinction Awards from UBC
- UBC Earth and Ocean Sciences appoints new head
- UBC swimmer Annamay Pierse named CIS female athlete of the year
- UBC students win best poster prize
- UBC hosts golf tournament fund-raiser
- UBC Library Vault celebrates Mother’s Day
UBC People
UBC researchers announced in first phase of CERC competition
Four UBC proposals were selected in the first phase of the inaugural competition for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) program. Forty proposals from 17 universities were announced last week. UBC’s proposals were in the areas of Biofuels and Biorefining Innovation, Neuroscience, Quantum Materials and Devices and Translational Prostate Cancer Genomics.
These universities will be invited to nominate world-class researchers for the second phase of the competition. Up to 20 successful chairholders and their research teams will each receive up to $10 million over seven years to establish ambitious research programs in Canada.
CERC provides awards to Canadian universities to help them attract and support world-class researchers in four research areas: environmental sciences and technologies; natural resources and energy; health and related life sciences and technologies; and information and communication technologies.
For more information, visit www.cerc.gc.ca
Nominees for YWCA Women of Distinction Awards from UBC
YWCA has announced the nominees for its 26th annual Women of Distinction Awards. Nominees from UBC include:
Asst. Prof. Inge Roecker , School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Dean Mary Anne Bobinski , Faculty of Law
Asst. Prof. Lori Brotto , Director, UBC Sexual Health Lab
Prof. Elizabeth Croft , Mechanical Engineering
Prof. Adele Diamond , Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Canada Research Chair
Prof. Judy Illes , Neurology and Director, National Core for Neuroethics
Prof. Sheila Innis , Dept. of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Director, Nutrition and Metabolism, Child and Family Research Institute
The awards will be given at a gala at the Westin Bayshore on June 3.
For more information, visit http://www.ywcavan.org/content/2009_Women_of_Distinction_Nominees/847/30/201
UBC Earth and Ocean Sciences appoints new head
Prof. Greg Dipple has been named head of the UBC Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Dipple, who joined UBC in 1992, is an internationally recognized expert on fluid-rock interactions who is studying how to use mining residue to soak up green house gases. Dipple will assume the appointment effective July 1.
For more information, visit http://science.ubc.ca/news/267 .
UBC swimmer Annamay Pierse named CIS female athlete of the year
UBC swimmer Annamay Pierse has been named the 2008-09 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) female athlete of the year.
Pierse received the award at a gala ceremony in Toronto. She takes home a $10,000 scholarship to attend a Canadian graduate school.
The awards show airs on TSN, May 16 at 2 p.m.
For more information, visit http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/extras/2009/09apr28.html.
UBC students win best poster prize
A UBC electrical and computer engineering team won best poster prize at the BCNet 2009 Conference, Green Technologies for Research and Learning, in Vancouver this week. The poster, titled Cell Link: Real-time Data Tracking of Automobiles via Cell Phone , was presented by undergraduate students Roland Hui , Christine Yun-Yi Chen , Jason Chan and graduate student Huasong Cao under the supervision of Prof. Victor Leung .
UBC hosts golf tournament fund-raiser
The annual UBC Golf Classic tournament fund-raiser will be held in support of the Walter Gage Fund. Since 1999, proceeds from the campus-wide tournament have provided financial support for non-curricular student projects and activities.
Date: May 5
Place: University Golf Club
Info : 604-822-9702 or lynn.newman@ubc.ca
UBC Library Vault celebrates Mother’s Day
In honour of Mother’s Day, UBC Library Vault is offering a 10-per-cent discount on all purchases until May 10. Visit the online store at www.ubcvault.ca/commerce/ or the Library Development office on level two in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
UBC Library Vault is also offering 10 new card sets at
http://ubcvault.ca/commerce/index.php?cPath=36 , featuring images from rare navigational texts, turn-of-the-century Japanese fairytales and botanicals.
