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Political scientist Michael Byers says Canadian patriotism has been developing over the last couple of decades and is not just an Olympic phenomenon.
Feb 23, 2010
More than 500 student volunteers – the largest number of university students ever mobilized for volunteer service in Canada during a university Reading Week study break – are working with children in 16 Vancouver elementary schools with support from SAP employees, providing an example of a different kind of corporate partnership for the Games.
Feb 22, 2010
Urban design and landscape architecture Prof. Patrick Condon talks about Vancouver’s tradition of urban living and what the Olympic Games have added.
The 2010 Winter Olympics are now past the half-way point. UBC has a handful of experts ready to provide analysis on topics including: Transit – How well have people responded to the call to take public transit? Security – Can we glean any lessons so far on security? Games memories – What will our long-term memories of the Games be? Social issues – Have the Games been successful in raising important social issues?
Kyung-Ae Park, professor and Korea Foundation Chair at UBC, comments on the political and cultural implications of a gold medal win for South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na.
Prof. David Anderson says the experience of standing in long lines at large events like the Olympics is rarely remembered as a negative experience.
Feb 20, 2010
On Feb. 19, UBC’s new Centre for Sport and Sustainability will co-host the third annual International Symposium on Sports Business with global impacts-assessment experts to analyze lessons learned so far […]
Feb 19, 2010
The University of British Columbia has launched a centre that will help future host regions learn from Canada’s experience hosting the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Recent UBC Media Releases Feb. 15: UBC project to generate clean energy and new knowledge Feb. 12: Schools use digital technology to learn about the 2010 Games Upcoming Event Highlights […]
Feb 18, 2010
On Feb. 19, the UBC School of Human Kinetics will co-host the third annual International Symposium on Sports Business with global impacts-assessment experts to analyze lessons learned so far from […]
Peer Programs, a student-led program providing support to UBC students, is accepting applications for new student leaders for next year. The 14 peer programs recruiting are: * Arts Team * […]
UBC engineers have created a “good luck” image to Canadian athletes that covers an area smaller than a snowflake and contains over 100 million carbon nanotubes (each nanotube is 10 […]
Senior program assistant Jennifer Pelletier in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering has been chosen as the honorary president of the UBC Engineering Undergraduate Society for the 2009/10 in recognition of […]
The Katal Innovations Landing Pad, invented by UBC engineering undergraduate student Aaron Coret and alumnus Stephen Slen (BASc ’07), will be showcased at British Columbia Innovation Council’s Sport Technology and […]
PhD candidate Michael J. Sheriff has won a British Ecological Society (BES) Elton prize for his paper The sensitive hare: sub lethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe […]
BC Mechanical Engineering Prof. Elizabeth Croft has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in recognition of her achievements and contributions to engineering. Croft is devoted to […]
Two UBC professors are recipients of the 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship: Asst. Prof. Joshua A. Folk, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Asst. Prof. Omer Angel, Dept. of Mathematics. The […]
UBC has a number of experts ready to comment on the phenomena of “strategic nationalism” – where hockey fever can induce patriotism – the lightning quick mood changes within social media and the different faces of pride, from authentic to hubristic.
Prof. Joe Cutbirth, who teaches a course on Satire as News, believes Stephen Colbert came to Vancouver, in part, to make amends with Canadians.
Feb 17, 2010
Robert Hindmarch says every country that hosts the Games gets “pounded” by the media, after comments were made that the Vancouver Olympics could be among the worst ever.
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