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Jun. 21, 2005
- UBC Business Prof. Ranked 5th Worldwide
- UBC Research Team Launches New Web Site
- UBC Medical Team Honoured for Expanded Medical Educational Program
- New and Notable Plants from Asia
- New Bike Riding Course on Sustainability
- High School Students Connect at UBC, July 24-27
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UBC Business Prof. Ranked 5th Worldwide
Izak Benbasat, the Chair of UBC’s Sauder School of Business Management Information Systems Division, has been ranked the 5th most productive information systems (IS) scholar worldwide.
The study, published by in the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) professional journal, focuses on publication productivity of IS researchers in twelve major IS journals from the years 1999-2003. UBC places in the top 30 schools worldwide in the survey, and is listed among the top five schools publishing in the two leading MIS journals, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research
Benbasat, the only Canadian scholar named to the top ten list, holds the Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Management and was recently elected to the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.
UBC Research Team Launches New Web Site
UBC’s Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement: Bridging Excellence in Respiratory Disease and Gender Studies (ICEBERGS) team has launched its new web site.
Funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian Lung Association, the team of interdisciplinary investigators focuses on advancing current understandings of sex and gender-sensitive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that causes damage to the lungs, leads to breathing difficulties and eventually severe disability.
For further information on ICEBERGS, please visit www.icebergs.ubc.ca.
UBC Medical Team Honoured for Expanded Medical Educational Program
A UBC medical team has won this year’s B.C. Innovation Award in Educational Technology for research in leadership.
The award recognizes post-secondary educators who test, implement, and use educational technologies to enhance teaching and learning, and provide greater service and support to students and staff.
Joanna Bates, Angela Towle, Oscar Casiro and David Snadden were responsible for implementing the expansion of UBC’s Distributed MD Undergraduate Program. They were awarded for bringing innovative change to the UBC Faculty of Medicine and for collaborating with UVIC and UNBC in the program.
For more information, visit: http://www.bccampus.ca/Page149.aspx.
New and Notable Plants from Asia
The Jade Garden, a guide to 150 ornamental trees, shrubs, and perennials from one of the largest and oldest collections of Asian plants, has been launched in conjunction with the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research.
Although the guide is based on detailed research and observation of “the green mantle” of Asia, authors Peter Wharton, Brent Hine and Douglas Justice include only those selections that have undergone thorough evaluation at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden for hardiness and garden appeal.
The guide includes introductory essays on Asian geography and floristics, and firsthand accounts of author encounters with the plants in their habitats.
For more information, visit: www.timberpress.com.
New Bike Riding Course on Sustainability
Bicycles will be required to earn credits in an innovative new course on sustainability at the new Great Northern Way Campus.
The Learning City course, “Action and Awareness: Focus on Urban Sustainability,” will investigate the Central Valley Greenway project — an alternative transportation trail that will eventually link bikes and rollerbladers traveling from Science World in Vancouver to New Westminster Quay.
Rob VanWynsberghe, assistant professor in UBC’s Institute of Health Promotion Research, will be one of four instructors co-teaching the course.
For more information, visit: www.learningcity.gnwc.ca.
High School Students Connect at UBC, July 24-27
Some 150 high school students from across Canada and the world will gather at UBC this summer to explore global issues and university-level learning.
UBC Connect, a residential camp, gives students the opportunity to participate in lectures by various professors and researchers, meet UBC student leaders, live in residence and develop team projects.
The program is open to students entering Grade 11, Grade 12, or their first-year at UBC.
For more information, visit: www.welcome.ubc.ca/connect.
