Geoff Atkins has been named associate
vice-presi dent, Land and Building Services. Atkins, who assumed his
new position Oct. 28, will report to the vice-president, Administration and
Finance. His responsibilities will include Campus Planning and Development,
Utilities and Plant Operations. Atkins comes to UBC from Saskatchewan where he
was manager of buildings and facilities operations and maintenance for the City
of Saskatoon. Prior to that he managed Edmonton Transit in Alberta.
Dr. Kevin Wade, an ophthalmologist at the UBC Eye
Care Centre, has been awarded the Ross C. Nurse Doctoral Fellowship
for the support of theoretical and practical research and studies in blindness
and visual impairment.
Wade will be looking at the importance of a combined approach to the medical
and social impact of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. This condition, which
affects 25,000 children in Canada, can result in severe vision loss.
This combined epidemiological, medical and social study will be unique in
Canada.
Ivan Head, professor in the Faculty of Law and Chair in
South-North Studies, gave the keynote address on Oct. 25 at United Nations
headquarters to mark World Food Day.
World Food Day has been observed at the UN since 1984. Previous keynote
speakers at ceremonies marking World Food Day have included John Kenneth
Galbraith and Javier Perez de Cuellar.
