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Study may help check suicide among native youth

A counselling psychology professor at the University of British Columbia is using his research findings to develop workshops he hopes will help prevent suicide among First Nations youth. Instead of […]

Dec 4, 1997

UBC Reports Calendar for 97-11-27

A listing of UBC-related or UBC-sponsored events occurring on campus and off campus within the Lower Mainland from November 30 through December 13, 1997. UBC Reports welcomes calendar submissions from […]

Nov 27, 1997

UBC Reports Digest for 97-11-27

The university detachment of the RCMP and campus security have seized a number of stolen parking permits from students as part of an ongoing investigation into permit thefts. Campus motorists […]

Nov 27, 1997

vol. 43, issue 20

News Digest . People . Letters to the Editor . Calendar Survey ranks UBC tops for reputation UBC claimed the top spot for best overall reputation among Canadian medical/doctoral universities, […]

Nov 27, 1997

Parking fees fly in face of commitment

Editor: I’ll admit it: I drove in to UBC today as I am heading off to Seattle this afternoon. Paying only $2 per day in the B-Lot certainly makes it […]

Nov 27, 1997

UBC Reports People for 97-11-27

Former UBC President David Strangway has become the only non-Korean to win the First Order of Civil Merit from the government of South Korea. The order is awarded to individuals […]

Nov 27, 1997

Australian Studies a first for Canada

by Gavin Wilson Staff writer A Centre for Australian Studies — the first of its kind in Canada — will be created at UBC in collaboration with post-secondary institutions in […]

Nov 27, 1997

New Science Chairs support marine, minerals and bio-chemistry research

Three professors in the Faculty of Science have been appointed to new chairs in minerals and the environment, biological chemistry, and the ocean environment. Earth and Ocean Sciences Prof. Paul […]

Nov 27, 1997

Breakthrough could lead to E. coli vaccine

by Stephen Forgacs Staff writer A new understanding of how E. coli bacteria bond to host cells may lead to the creation of a vaccine against strains of the bacteria […]

Nov 27, 1997

Student fellowship lasting APEC legacy

UBC has announced the creation of an APEC Graduate Fellowship established with $250,000 from the President’s Fund, an endowment which supports various campus initiatives. The new fellowship, which will provide […]

Nov 27, 1997

Campus’ modernist jewels on display in VAG show

The construction of the Wesbrook Building in 1947 was an important milestone in UBC’s architectural history. It was the first of many modernist buildings constructed on campus during the city’s […]

Nov 27, 1997

Pigskin T-Birds triumph in Vanier Cup victory

For the first time in a decade, the UBC Thunderbirds have brought home the holy grail of Canadian university football, the Vanier Cup. The T-Birds defeated the Ottawa Gee Gees […]

Nov 27, 1997

Campus fund boosts humanities research

UBC researchers in the social sciences and humanities are finding opportunities to undertake new research projects or projects outside their recognized fields of expertise with support from the Hampton Research […]

Nov 27, 1997

Survey ranks UBC tops for reputation

UBC claimed the top spot for best overall reputation among Canadian medical/doctoral universities, according to Maclean’s magazine’s annual ranking of Canadian universities. According to the rankings, UBC’s reputation for innovation […]

Nov 27, 1997

Business ethics not a cut and dried issue, says chair

by Sean Kelly Staff writer When an employee of a local firm was caught on video stealing a pickup truck full of goods from his company’s depot, he was fired […]

Nov 27, 1997

Book buyer pens journal to aid fellow cancer patients

by Hilary Thomson Staff writer As senior general book buyer for the UBC Bookstore, Jennifer Pike knows you can’t tell a book by its cover. Unless you wrote it yourself. […]

Nov 27, 1997

Student spends spare time fighting famine

by Hilary Thomson Staff writer Spending three months fending off starvation in a war-ravaged African country isn’t anyone’s idea of a summer holiday. Yet second-year medical student Simon Pulfrey didn’t […]

Nov 27, 1997

Agricultural Sciences? Think again, says dean

by Stephen Forgacs Staff writer Agricultural Sciences. What does that mean to you? Chances are, says the faculty’s new dean, Moura Quayle, the impression that many people have of the […]

Nov 27, 1997

Shootout unfit end for would-be soccer champs

by Sean Kelly Staff writer Sports quiz. In what sport can a team out-shoot an opponent 20-0 and still lose? The answer is soccer, and members of the UBC Thunderbirds […]

Nov 27, 1997

Economics study reaps million-dollar funding

by Sean Kelly Staff writer The distribution of material well-being in Canada and Canadians’ attitudes towards inequality and related public policies, are among the subjects of a UBC-led interdisciplinary research […]

Nov 27, 1997