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UBC News Digest

The UBC News Digest is a weekly summary of news stories about UBC people, research, learning, community, and internationalization initiatives. News Digest past issues are also available on-line. Jul. 30, […]

UBC Dermatologist Offers New Tool to Help Treat Disfiguring Skin Disorder

Superstar Michael Jackson and more than 40 million others who suffer from a de-pigmenting skin disease now have a better way to predict the effectiveness of treatment, thanks to a […]

UBC News Digest

The UBC News Digest is a weekly summary of news stories about UBC people, research, learning, community, and internationalization initiatives. News Digest past issues are also available on-line. Jul. 16, […]

UBC Okanagan Campus Expansion Plans Approved to Accommodate 900 New Students

The UBC Board of Governors has approved a $18.4 million (including special equipment) construction plan to accommodate 900 new student spaces when UBC Okanagan opens in September 2005. With construction […]

UBC Faculty Honoured by Royal Society

A leader in HIV prevention, a specialist in business cycles and economic growth and a history educator are among the five University of British Columbia faculty recently elected to the […]

Move over Gallup: UBC researchers design new polling tool

Are traditional public opinion polls becoming obsolete? Given the gap between pollsters’ predictions and Canada’s recent election results, researchers at the University of British Columbia think the time is right […]

New drug may reduce obsessive eating in children with genetic disorder

What if your child’s overeating was so uncontrollable that it led to eating out of the garbage, ransacking the kitchen and getting arrested for stealing food? These scenarios are a […]

UBC Gets Green Light for $13.5 million in Provincial Research Funding

University of British Columbia research positions valued at $13.5 million have received approval-in-principle from the provincial government’s Leading Edge Endowment Fund (LEEF), designed to support and promote innovation in B.C. […]

Books and Mortar — and a Whole Lot More

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 The $60 million Irving K. Barber Learning Centre takes shape By Erica Smishek Her title reads University Librarian, […]

What the Librarians are Reading

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 Books the bookish boost By Michelle Cook Mysteries, racy romances, tell-all biographies. Every summer, the same old book […]

Mustica Breaks Ground in Interactive Music Preservation

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 By Brian Lin Roll over, Beethoven! Step aside, Mozart! A new generation of composers is revolutionizing the classical […]

MAking the Fantastic Matter-of-Fact

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 Anosh Irani takes readers and playgoers on magic-realist journeys By Erica Smishek Anosh Irani has always loved to […]

Amber Lannon, Modern Librarian

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 Books play small role in information expert’s work By Michelle Cook How hard is it for a modern-day […]

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Chronicle of Events

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 2002 October Announcement of The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre November First live webcast from The Irving K. […]

Imperial Gift

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 Japan’s Princess Takamado visited UBC in June to present a collection of books on Japanese society and culture […]

The Social Impact of Computers

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 Mountains of Spam e-mails, viruses, worms, Internet predators luring children away. . . After 20 years of surveying […]

UBC Press Hot List for Cool Reads

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 By Hilary Thomson (with files from UBC Press) UBC Press, established in 1971, is one of the largest […]

Library a Gem in Aboriginal Scholarship

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 By Brian Lin Nestled between a driftwood waterfall and the First Nations Long House’s Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall is […]

Bookstore of the Year

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 UBC Bookstore has been named Campus Bookstore of the Year for 2004 by the Canadian Booksellers Association at […]

Books that have Booksellers Sold

UBC Reports | Vol. 50 | No. 7 | Jul. 8, 2004 Here is a look at UBC Bookstore’s five top-selling books by UBC authors from September 2003 to May […]