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UBC This Week 08-March-2012

  Recent UBC Media Releases Mar 8 One year later: UBC remembers Japan’s earthquake, explores lessons learned Mar 8 UBC, Fraunhofer formalize partnership among world’s top clean energy researchers Mar […]

Mar 8, 2012

School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) public events

SALA Works — Exhibition of faculty research, writing, and design. Date: Now through March 15 Place: Or Gallery, 555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver Info: orgallery.org Constructing— Professors Matthew Soules and Inge Roecker Date: March 11 […]

Mar 8, 2012

Green College Players present A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Green College Players presents an evening of theatre with their production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Attendees are asked to bring a non-perishable food item or a suggested donation […]

Mar 8, 2012

Asia Pacific Memo update – one year after Japan’s 3/11 disaster

Short text Memos or video interviews on current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are published twice-weekly in the Asia Pacific Memo (APM) series. This week APM will publish […]

Mar 8, 2012

“How to Be A Roman Emperor” by Green College Visiting Professor

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, an archeologist and a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, will be at UBC on March 18 to 25. Wallace-Hadrill is a professor of Roman Studies and […]

Mar 8, 2012

UBC hosts Canadian Engineering Competition From Sea to Sky

The 27th annual Canadian Engineering Competition, From Sea to Sky, will bring together 150 undergraduate engineering students to compete in six categories that will challenge them to identify solutions to […]

Mar 8, 2012

Retell, Rethink, Recover – March 10 conference

In commemoration of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last March, UBC Library is hosting a free one-day conference featuring talks from scholars on Japan and personal accounts from […]

Mar 8, 2012

Tenth anniversary of the Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium

UBC is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium on March 9. Richard Atelo will give a keynote address, “Indigenous Intellectual Traditions: Re/stor(y)ing Time and Space” and […]

Mar 8, 2012

UBC engineering students recognized for contributions to community development

Two UBC engineering student teams were presented with an E-Fest 2012 Community Service Learning award for their contributions to community development locally and abroad. On Vancouver Island, Heather Kempthorne, Wendy […]

Mar 8, 2012

UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences launches new building website

A new website has been launched by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Focusing on the Faculty’s new building, http://building.pharmacy.ubc.ca/ is dedicated to promoting the award-winning facility prior to its official […]

Mar 8, 2012

WorldMUN comes to UBC

On March 11, more than 2,200 student leaders from over 65 countries will converge for Canada’s biggest ever student led conference, the World Model United Nations (WorldMUN). It is being […]

Mar 8, 2012

UBC AMS begins construction on green student union building

The Alma Mater Society (AMS) of UBC, in conjunction with campus partners, broke ground on the new Student Union Building (SUB) on Feb. 29. Doors of the new GREEN SUB […]

Mar 8, 2012

One year later: UBC remembers Japan’s earthquake, explores lessons learned

UBC experts and community members are available to comment on the March 11 anniversary of Japan’s “triple disaster” – the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown.

Mar 8, 2012

UBC, Fraunhofer formalize partnership among world’s top clean energy researchers

The University of British Columbia today forged a formal partnership with Germany’s Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest research institution for applied research, to focus on renewable-energy technologies.

Mar 8, 2012

UBC professors celebrate International Women’s Day

A number of UBC faculty offer heartfelt and inspiring words for their female students during International Women’s Day, March 8.

Mar 8, 2012

UBC leading charge to rethink varsity sport in Canada

UBC has taken the reins in an initiative amongst Canada West universities to reconsider how the conference divides its 16 teams. A letter signed by UBC president Stephen Toope and […]

Mar 8, 2012