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UBC Reports | May 28

UBC Reports | May 28

Primeau returns to UBC to lead Thunderbirds cross country and track and field

Primeau returns to UBC to lead Thunderbirds cross country and track and field

Laurier Primeau will be the next head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds’ cross country and track and field programs.

The Orange Chair Sessions: Darren Dahl

Dr. Darren Dahl’s research drives understanding of consumer behaviour and motivation.

Staff Pension Plan Fair – June 3

The Staff Pension Plan Pension Fair is an opportunity for staff members to learn more about their pension plan and other retirement information. The following groups will be attending the […]

Apps4Kids Hackathon

The Apps4Kids Hackathon is a free event that brings together students, developers, physicians to create and refine apps that aim to solve medical care challenges for children and youth with chronic […]

Webinar: Work 2 Give – Enlisting Positive Masculinities

Nursing professor Helen Brown will be presenting a webinar on her research titled “Enlisting Positive Masculinities to Transform Offender Labour Approaches for Incarcerated Aboriginal Men in British Columbia.”  Brown is working with […]

Concrete Canoe receives Spirit of the Competition award

The UBC Concrete Canoe team returned from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers National Competition at the University of Toronto bearing the Spirit of the Competition Award. They were the […]

Twelve UBC papers accepted to SIGGRAPH 2015

Twelve papers written by UBC-affiliated authors have been accepted at the Association for Computing Machinery SIGGRAPH 2015, the 42nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques to be held […]

Computer science student wins 2015 ICSE Student Research Competition

Computer Science undergraduate student Caroline Lemieux is the winner of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Student Research Competition. Lemieux presented a poster and a talk on “Mining Temporal […]

School of Nursing holds fourth annual Alumni and Partnership Awards gala

The School of Nursing honoured five individuals for their contributions to the school at their fourth annual Alumni and Partnership Awards Gala. Alumna Gillian McKay (BSN ’09) received the Young Alumni […]

Nursing elder honoured by United Global Chinese Women’s Association of Canada

School of Nursing community partner Roberta Price has received the Community Special Contribution Award from the United Global Chinese Women’s Association of Canada. Price is the first award recipient from a […]

Applied Science unveils strategic plan: ENGAGE 2020

The Faculty of Applied Science has unveiled ENGAGE 2020, the faculty’s five-year strategic plan.  The plan outlines their mission to “create positive change in the world through innovative application of […]

School of Population and Health members recognized

Associate Professor Jane Buxton has won the Canadian Public Health Association’s Ron Draper Health Promotion Award. Buxton is a physician epidemiologist and Harm Reduction lead at the B.C. Centre for […]

Engineering researcher recognized by Medicine Maker magazine

Vikram Yadav, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was recognized by Medicine Maker Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in drug development […]

Psychology professor receives YWCA Women of Distinction award

Psychology professor Liisa Galea has received a YWCA Metro Vancouver’s Women of Distinction award in the technology, science and research category. She was honoured at YWCA’s annual gathering that recognized […]

UBC This Week – 28-May-2015

UBC This Week subscriber: Please be advised that this will be the last edition of the UBC This Week newsletter.  If you work at UBC, visit the Working at UBC page on […]