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Apr. 30, 2004
- Conference For Young Women Facing Breast Cancer
at UBC - UBC Students’ Plan Flies With Boeing
- Faculty Of Education Profs Honoured By Local School
District - PhD Student Receives Scholarship For Promoting
Engineering To Women
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Conference For Young Women Facing Breast Cancer
at UBC
On which date of a budding romance do you inform your companion
that you have no breasts? How do you keep your bearings when you
are catapulted from new motherhood to menopause? How can you relate
to your friend’s wedding anxieties about when you are worried
about planning your own funeral? To support young women facing these
questions, a group of young breast cancer patients, several of whom
work at UBC and call themselves “The Young and the Breastless,”
are organizing the first conference of its kind May 14 and 15.
Topics will include fertility, sexuality, emotional realities,
support, and complementary therapies. Presenters include Dr. Karen
Gelmon, head of the BC Cancer Agency’s breast tumour group;
Kathryn Nicholson, a counsellor at the BC Cancer Agency; Dr. Elaine
Drysdale, BC Cancer Agency psychiatrist; and author Marlene A. Schiwy.
Registration and general information about the event is available
online at www.theyoungandthebreastless.ca,
or call 778-883-5418.
UBC Students’ Plan Flies With Boeing
Six UBC students recently drafted a winning proposal for the redevelopment
of a 47-acre site Boeing Co. owns in Tukwila, Washington.
The students, from the Sauder School of Business and the School
of Community and Regional Planning, submitted the winning plan in
the first annual Northwest Real Estate Challenge, a competition
hosted by the Vancouver, Washington and Oregon chapters of the National
Association of Industrial and Office Properties and sponsored by
Boeing Realty Corp.
Real estate majors Steve Bruckall, Evan Campbell, Chris Kay and
Cam MacGregor worked with planning students Darren Enns and Peter
Russell to suggest the 47-acre site host an air cargo and corporate
aircraft servicing centre.
Faculty Of Education Profs Honoured By Local School
District
Shelley Hymel and Kim Schonert-Reichl, UBC professors of education
and counselling psychology, were among ten recipients to receive
the 2003 Vancouver School Board (VSB) Recognition Award. The award
recognizes VSB staff, community members and education partners for
outstanding contributions that have made a true difference to the
District.
Professors Hymel and Schonert-Reichl were nominated on the basis
of their support of the VSB and district initiatives regarding social
responsibility and social / emotional learning, originating from
the ongoing partnership between Faculty of Education and the Vancouver
School Board. They will receive their award at a special recognition
event on May 20th at the VSB.
PhD Student Receives Scholarship For Promoting
Engineering To Women
Chemical and biological engineering PhD student Monica Danon-Schaffer
is the recipient of the 2004 Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Award from
the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF).
The $15,000 scholarship is awarded to a woman enrolled full-time
in a graduate engineering program at the doctoral level. It encourages
women to pursue careers in engineering and to recognize the valuable
contribution that they bring to society through research, teaching
and community involvement. The award is based on demonstrated leadership,
community involvement and extracurricular activities with special
emphasis on those that help attract women to or encourage them to
remain in engineering.
