Three new members have been appointed by the provincial government
to UBC’s Board of Governors. They are: business leader Larry Bell,
president and CEO of Shato Holdings Ltd., a food services company,
and chair of its subsidiary White Spot. Ltd.; health educator Guninder
Mumick, manager of the Multicultural Health Education/Promotion
Program of the Vancouver / Richmond Health Board; and natural resource
strategist Linda Thorstad, vice-president of corporate relations
for Viceroy Resource Corporation.

• Contact: Hilary Thomson, Public Affairs Office, 604.822.2644

Romantic works make rare visit to UBC gallery

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC is featuring works
by French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault. The works, in Canada
for the first time, are on loan from the Louvre and the Ecole des
Beaux-arts in Paris. Gericault is best known as a leader of the
Romantic movement and for bringing political commentary and contemporary
reality to his work. The exhibition, entitled The Alien Body: Tradition
in Chaos, opens at the gallery Aug. 15 and runs to Oct. 19.

• Contact: Naomi Sawada, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
  604.822.2759

Improving management crucial to fisheries’ health

UBC zoologist Tony Pitcher sees frightening patterns emerging in
the West Coast fishery. He and other scientists at the Pacific Fisheries
Think Tank are working hard to avoid scenarios similar to those
found in other parts of the world where fisheries have been decimated.
Pitcher and colleagues recently participated in a study of the area
around Hong Kong aimed at helping to bring back species endangered
by poor resource management. Changes to fisheries management, says
Pitcher, could lead to enormous benefits, both to local economies
and to threatened species.

• Contact: Prof. Tony Pitcher, Co-Director, Pacific Fisheries
  Think Tank, 604.822.2731

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