UBC This Week 7-Aug-2014

Aug 7, 2014

 

Recent UBC Media Releases
Aug 7 Battle of the Indiana Jones robots
Aug 6 Bye bye privacy: UBC research sheds light on wearable technology
Aug 6 The Vantage advantage
Aug 5 Eye of the beholder: UBC researchers turn their passion for science into objets d’art

Upcoming Event Highlights
Aug 7 G.F. Handel: “Il Trionfo del Tempo” (1707)
Aug 8 Connect Level 2
Aug 8 Cancer prevention: Fitness, fatness, and beyond
Aug 9 Rain City Chronicles Presents The Great Outdoors storytelling event
Aug 9 Vancouver Early Music Festival: Vanitas Vanitatum
Aug 11-15 Psychometrics in Health Research: An Overview of the Fundamental’s Essential Skills for Data Quality
Aug 11 Delivering an online class in real-time using Collaborate
Aug 12 Leave for Change 2014-15: Information Session (VGH)
Aug 12 Descriptive/Graphing Analysis with SPSS workshop
Aug 13 UBC Farm Market at UBC Bookstore
Aug 13 Sports on the Mall
Aug 13 Citation Management Using Zotero workshop
Aug 14-27 Jump Start Two-Week Immersion Program
Aug 14 Music on the Mall
Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

UBC People

UBC People

Computer Science member receives leadership award

Computer Science Department Head Anne Condon is the recipient of the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award. The award recognizes female computer scientists who demonstrate leadership through their contributions to technology and achievements in increasing the impact of women on technology. Condon was the NSERC/GM Chair for Women in Science and Engineering from 2004-2009. She is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, and of the Royal Society of Canada. Click here for more information.

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SALA prof designs installation for Harmony Arts Festival

Matthew Soules Architecture has designed Vermilion Sands, a temporary installation for the Harmony Arts Festival on West Vancouver’s waterfront. Soules is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA). The project integrates living plant-life into a geometric three-dimensional pattern and explores the relationship between the natural and the artificial while providing a shaded social space for festivalgoers. View the installation during the festival from August 1 – 10, 2014 at the Millennium Park in West Vancouver. Click here for more info.

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Materials Engineering student wins MetSoc Master’s Award for 2014

Ajanthia Gunaramam has won the 2014 MetSoc Master’s Award from the Metallurgy and Materials Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining. Gunaramam is currently working on her thesis titled “A Study of BFS Formation and Control in the Autoclaving of Argentiferous Sulfide Gold Ores” under the supervision of Professor David Dreisinger. Click here for more info.

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