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UBC This Week 09-Feb-2012

  Recent UBC Media Releases Feb. 8 UBC researchers use Google Earth to verify Mediterranean fish farming data Feb. 7 New poll shows Canadians want to make family a priority […]

Feb 9, 2012

CiTR Radio Prof Talk interviews Courtney Booker

UBC CiTR Radio’s Prof Talk with host Farha Khan interviews Courtney Booker from the UBC Dept. of History about his research on early medieval history. Every Tuesday, Prof Talk on […]

Feb 9, 2012

Asia Pacific Memo update – Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal / China and Eurozone Bailout Bonds

Current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are published twice-weekly on the Asia Pacific Memo series. To subscribe and read the short text memos, visit: http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ • Feb. 7 – […]

Feb 9, 2012

Old Red New Red: Feb. 9

The UBC Faculty of Applied Science and the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) will hold their annual “Old Red New Red” event. As Engineering Week 2012 comes to a close, this […]

Feb 9, 2012

Canada Foundation for Innovation, Dialogues at UBC Robson Square

Harnessing the power of quantum information has game-changing implications for global communications. Information processors that function according to the laws of quantum mechanics promise to vastly outperform their “classical” counterparts. […]

Feb 9, 2012

Water Security in Canada (Public Lecture)

How secure is Canada’s water? What are the greatest threats we face? And what should be our priorities for management and conservation? Researchers from UBC’s Program on Water Governance and […]

Feb 9, 2012

UBC Press author shortlisted for Canada Prize in social sciences

UBC Press author Paulette Regan has been shortlisted for The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ (CFHSS) Canada Prize in Social Sciences for her book Unsettling the Settler […]

Feb 9, 2012

Inaugural engineering Co-op alumni survey shows positive results

As part of the UBC Engineering Co-op Program’s continuing assessment of its program and post-graduation employment statistics, a web-based survey was conducted in June 2011. The first-ever co-op alumni survey […]

Feb 9, 2012

UBC Okanagan’s Centre for Advancement of Psychological Science and Law opens

The Centre for Advancement of Psychological Science and Law (CAPSL) officially opened on Feb. 3 at UBC’s Okanagan campus. The driving force behind CAPSL is the trio of Zach Walsh, […]

Feb 9, 2012

UBC team takes top spot at Western Engineering Competition 2012

A team of engineering students from UBC’s Okanagan campus took first place at the Western Engineering Competition 2012 in Calgary recently. The team of Clifford Gilker, Devyn Farr, Patrick Finch […]

Feb 9, 2012

SPIE Best Poster in Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomograpy and Therapy

UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers received the Cum Laude best poster award in Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomograpy and Therapy at the International Symposium on medical imaging. The poster was presented […]

Feb 9, 2012

UBC alumna named Dean of Engineering at Waterloo

Pearl Sullivan (PhD ’90, MTRL), professor, researcher and UBC alumna, has been appointed as the University of Waterloo’s Dean of Engineering effective July 1, 2012. Sullivan earned her PhD in […]

Feb 9, 2012

UBC post-doctoral fellow named Rising Star in Global Health for life-saving innovation

Grand Challenges Canada has announced that UBC Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow Walter Karlen is a Rising Star in Global Health, an innovator dedicated to improving health […]

Feb 9, 2012

Deborah Buszard appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal

UBC’s Board of Governors has approved the appointment of Prof. Deborah Buszard to lead UBC’s Okanagan campus as Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal. She will begin her five-year term on […]

Feb 9, 2012

Safety notice for UBC Vancouver’s campus

The University is committed to maintaining a safe campus environment and providing information in a timely manner. On Feb. 7, 2012, at around 9 p.m. a female walking on University […]

Feb 9, 2012