Point Grey cliff erosion subject of open house

Oct 28, 1999

The public is invited to two open house sessions on the development
of a plan to manage the erosion of the Point Grey cliffs. The effort
is being co-ordinated by a joint UBC, GVRD Parks and Musqueam committee.

  • Date: Sunday, Oct. 31, 1999
  • Time: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Place: Dunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar St., Vancouver
  • Date: Monday, Nov. 1, 1999
  • Time: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Place: Room 214-216, Student Union Building, 6138 Student
    Union Blvd., UBC
  • Contact: David Grigg, associate director, Campus and
    Community Planning, 604.822.0472

UBC remembers war veterans

Thirteen campus and community groups will lay wreaths in the War
Memorial Gym foyer as part of UBC’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony
Nov. 11 from 10:45 a.m. to noon. UBC President Martha Piper, Ryan
Marshall, president of the student Alma Mater Society, and Rev.
John Mellis of the Vancouver School of Theology will participate
in the ceremony which is expected to draw about 400 people.

  • Contact: Eilis Courtney, manager, Ceremonies and Events
    Office, 604.822.6192

Coveted $500,000 grants awarded

Two interdisciplinary teams of UBC researchers and external scholars
have each received $500,000 as winners of coveted thematic grants
from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) this
year. The recipients of the institute’s 1999 Major Thematic Grant
are a research team led by French Prof. Valerie Raoul studying narratives
on illness, disability and trauma, and a team headed by Medical
Genetics Prof. Ann Rose working on the mechanisms of infectious
diseases.

  • Contact: Prof. Ken MacCrimmon, director, Peter Wall Institute
    for Advanced Studies, 604.822.4237

Students asked to write about freedom

Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students from UBC and affiliated
theological colleges are eligible to enter a $1,000 prize essay
contest on The Creative and Responsible Use of Freedom. Deadline
for entries is Friday, May 26, 2000 with the prize to be awarded
Friday, Sept. 29, 2000. Applications may be picked up at St. Mark’s
College, 5935 Iona Drive, UBC.

  • Contact: St. Mark’s College, 604.822.4463

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