Paul Thiele, founder and former director of the
Crane Resource Centre and his late wife Judith, co-founder and
reference librarian until her death in 1993, have received the Abdu’l Ala al
Ma’arri Award presented by the National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
NLS director Frank Curt Cylke congratulated Thiele on “more than three decades
of high quality, dedicated effort devoted to the educational needs of blind
individuals.”
The award recognizes outstanding library and information services to the blind
and visually impaired community. The Thieles are the second recipients of the
award.
Debbie Harvie has been named director, Parking
and Transportation and Campus Security.
Harvie will focus on parking issues with overall responsibility for security
functions. Tom McNeice assumes the role of director of Campus Security and will
report to Harvie.
Building customer service and making parking more available to the campus
community are goals of the new position, Harvie says.
Harvie will combine the new position with her role as director of UBC
Bookstore, a position she has held since 1990.
Glen Peterson, an assistant professor of History,
has won the K.D. Srivastava Prize for Scholarly Publications.
Peterson was honoured for his work, The Power of Words: Literacy and
Revolution in South China, 1949-1995.
The award aims to support and encourage the work of junior faculty members by
contributing $50,000 toward publication of their first book. The works are
published by UBC Press.
Zoology Asst. Prof. Eric Taylor has received the
Murray A. Newman Award for Excellence in Aquatic Research from the
Vancouver Aquarium.
Taylor was recognized for his research focusing on fish evolutionary biology
and molecular ecology. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities in the
field.
