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Graduation of a different sort comes on April 8 for 10 University of British Columbia faculty members who are the first-ever class to complete the UBC Certificate Program on Teaching […]
Mar 31, 1999
Fifty-six University of British Columbia research projects have received more than $2 million in grants from the B.C. Health Research Foundation (BCHRF) in a recent funding competition. “This funding recognizes […]
Finance Minister Joy MacPhail will present the provincial budget on Tuesday, March 30. Faculty at the University of British Columbia have expertise in a number of key areas related to […]
Mar 29, 1999
UBC’s Faculty of Agricultural Sciences will support an Intensive Grazing Seasonal Production trial currently being proposed for the Oyster River Research Farm during the consolidation of the faculty’s dairy cattle […]
Mar 25, 1999
Vancouver’s Pacific International Auto and Light Truck Show is the first pit-stop for a team of 10 UBC Mechanical and Electrical Engineering students revving up for the Formula Society of […]
UBC Authors 1998 . News Digest . Bug busters . People . Forum . Letters to the Editor . Calendar Math scholar one of two to win Sloan prize Jingyi […]
Mar 18, 1999
by Eve Savory Eve Savory, a documentary science and environment journalist with CBC TV’s The National and a graduate of UBC’s Faculty of Arts, is the recent recipient of UBC’s […]
Editor: I am disturbed by the discordance between the headline “Medical researchers garner MRC millions” (UBC Reports, Feb. 18) and the substance of the article which is that only 15 […]
Michael Weiss has been appointed director of the English Language Institute (ELI) at UBC. A former principal of Columbia College, an independent academic college in Vancouver, Weiss has many years […]
The World My Mother Gave Me Prof. Mandakranta Bose, the director of the Intercultural Studies in Asia program in the Faculty of Graduate Studies has produced this volume of essays […]
Due West, Blues & Bells, Greater Love, In Flanders Fields, Rose-Cheek’d Laura (musical scores); Creatures of Earth and Sky (CD) Among the beautiful music created recently by Music Prof. Stephen […]
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory Anthropology Prof. Julie Cruikshank has written an illuminating and theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives. It is […]
Drs. Karen Gelmon, Ivo Olivotto, Urva Kuusk Breast Cancer: All you need to know to take an active part in your treatment This updated second edition of an easy-to-read self-help […]
How Much Do National Borders Matter? Economics Prof. John Helliwell challenges the popular perception that the world has become so globalized there is no economic importance left to national borders. […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Beyond: Light Treatment for SAD and Non-SAD Conditions Dr. Raymond Lam, director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at UBC Hospital, looks at the use of light […]
ACORN, SONIA and PENNY OFFER, eds. Living with brain injury: a guide for families and caregivers. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1998. AMUNDSON, NORMAN E. Active engagement: enhancing the career […]
Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland Assoc. Prof. Brian McIlroy, chair of UBC’s Film Program, critically examines the treatment of Northern Ireland’s “troubles” portrayed in films […]
FishBase 98 (CD-ROM, concepts, design and data sources) The fourth edition of the only computerized encyclopedia of fish has key data on the biology of every known species in the […]
A Bachelor of Business in Real Estate (BBRE), a new undergraduate degree designed to create a standard of education for the real estate industry, has been approved by the UBC […]
by Bruce Mason Staff writer Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil spill seized world attention. As the 10th anniversary of the Alaskan ecological disaster approaches, […]
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