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Even before the United Way’s campus campaign kick-off Oct. 7, first-year Forestry students had raised $800 by selling apples. Campaign Chair Peter Nault of Plant Operations says he has no […]
Oct 16, 1997
Thunderbird Home Events 1997 For times and locations, call the 24-hour T-Bird hotline at 822-BIRD. Oct. 17* Football vs. Alberta Oct. 18-19* Women’s Field Hockey Tournament Oct. 21* Men’s Basketball […]
A listing of UBC-related or UBC-sponsored events occurring on campus and off campus within the Lower Mainland from October 19 through November 1, 1997. UBC Reports welcomes calendar submissions from […]
Nearly 200 UBC students may get a ringside seat on history as volunteers for APEC ’97. They are among the 1,250 people who have applied to be volunteers for APEC, […]
UBC scientists have received $5.5 million in grants from the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC)–the fourth largest MRC funding award in Canada and the largest in Western Canada this […]
“She shoots, she scores,” Laura Bennion used to shout as she tumbled on the carpet of her family home, clutching a goalie’s hockey stick. Years later she realized that, although […]
by Jon Kesselman Jon Kesselman is a professor of economics and director of the UBC Centre for Research on Economic and Social Policy. An earlier version of this article appeared […]
Athletics . Forum . News Digest . Canada’s Year of Asia Pacific . People . APEC ’97 Update . Calendar Public Information Meeting on APEC ’97 Campaign promotes value of […]
Prof. Herbert Rosengarten has been appointed Executive Director in UBC’s President’s Office. Rosengarten served as head of the English Dept. from 1987 to 1997, was president of the Faculty Association, […]
by Stephen Forgacs Staff writer UBC Thunderbird Mark Nohra recently broke the UBC football record for rushing and receiving yardage in a single game, covering a total of 297 yards […]
Botany Prof. Anthony Griffiths received the Genetics Society of Canada Award of Excellence. In addition to his research on Neurospora plasmids, Griffiths is seriously concerned with teaching at the undergraduate […]
by Hilary Thomson Staff writer Baby talk. Is it idle infant banter or part of an innate process of language development? That’s what UBC psychologists Prof. Janet Werker and graduate […]
The Pacific Baroque Orchestra, a professional Vancouver group recently named UBC’s first ensemble in residence, will play a series of concerts on campus beginning Oct. 19. The group performs 17th- […]
The Canadian Genetic Diseases Network (CGDN), a national Centre of Excellence based at UBC, has been awarded $18 million in research funding by the federal government. The award allows the […]
Prof. Keith Brimacombe, director of UBC’s Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering, has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The foundation was created in […]
UBC President Martha Piper conferred her first “honorary degrees” on eight diapered infants last week at the launch of the UBC Research Awareness Campaign. The one- to two-year-olds received honorary […]
UBC’s Nobel prize winner Michael Smith has been named director of the first research centre in Canada devoted to decoding human genes. The $25-million Genome Sequence Centre, a project of […]
A panel of experts led by Forestry Prof. Gordon Baskerville gave Canada’s National Forest Strategy Coalition a passing grade after its first five years of operation. Baskerville, head of the […]
by Sean Kelly Staff writer A little more than a century ago the area extending from Vancouver to the town of Hope was a forest of giant trees with extensive […]
by Stephen Forgacs Staff writer UBC researchers are about to make diamond exploration history with the publication of evidence supporting claims that the Slave region in Canada’s Northwest Territories may […]
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