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Recent UBC Media Releases
- Nov. 1: New $9-million UBC centre launched to find energy alternatives
- Oct. 30: New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
Upcoming Event Highlights
- Nov. 4: String Festival with UBC Chamber Strings
- Nov. 4: Robert Silverman: Why I Play Mozart on a Real Piano
- Nov. 4: UBC vs. U. Calgary: Men’s and Women’s Basketball
- Nov. 6: Talk of the Town: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
- Nov. 8: Lecture: Anxiety and Fear, The Range from Adaptive to Disabling
Find out what else is happening at UBC
this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site
at www.gothunderbirds.ca/schedule.asp.
UBC People
- UBC Graduate Student Awarded Soroptimist Grant
- UBC Library’s W. Kay Lamb Lecturer: Dr. Lilly Koltun, Director General of the Portrait Gallery of Canada
- Permit Board to Consider Two New Campus Projects
- Annual UBC Remembrance Day Ceremony
- Creative Writing Prof. and Alumni Nominated for Governor General’s Literary Awards
UBC People
UBC Graduate Student Awarded Soroptimist Grant
UBC Masters of Science Genetic Counselling student Christine Kobelka is one of four recipients of a $7,500 grant from the Soroptimist Foundation of Canada. The grants go to female graduate students in Canada pursuing careers that will improve the quality of women’s lives.
In the second year of her master’s degree program, Kobelka will survey women who screened positive on the maternal serum screen, indicating an increased chance of having a baby with Down Syndrome. She aims to understand why many do not choose to have follow-up diagnostic testing.
Kobelka also plans to study the effectiveness of video-conferencing genetic appointments with prenatal patients in remote areas of B.C. to help remove physical boundaries.
UBC Library’s W. Kay Lamb Lecturer: Dr. Lilly Koltun, Director General of the Portrait Gallery of Canada
Dr. Lilly Koltun will present this year’s W. Kaye Lamb Lecture, Small World, Large Universe: the image as microcosm for ideas of order and disorder. The invite-only event will be held on Thursday, November 9 at 7 p.m. at UBC’s Cecil Green Park House, and will be available via archived recording on the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre website (www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca).
The W. Kaye Lamb annual lecture series was established in 2000 to commemorate W. Kaye Lamb and his life’s work as a national archivist, librarian and historian.
Lamb, who passed away in August 1999, began his career in B.C. as the Provincial Archivist and Librarian. He was the UBC Library’s second University Librarian before becoming the Dominion Archivist of Canada. Lamb was also instrumental in establishing the National Library of Canada and served as the first National Librarian.
Permit Board to Consider Two New Campus Projects
The UBC Development Permit Board will consider two projects at its November 8 meeting:
1. DP 06023: South Campus Lot 1 Highrise (The Wesbrook)
ASPAC Developments Ltd proposes to build an 18-storey, 62-unit residential tower with 7 townhouses on Lot 1 of Wesbrook Place (South Campus Neighbourhood).
2. DP 06025: St. Marks Duplexes
This proposal is for 4 duplex buildings, for a total of 8 units on Lots 29 to 36 of Chancellor Place (Theological Neighbourhood).
The Development Permit Board Meeting will be held in the Cedar Room, Ponderosa Centre, 2071 West Mall from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
For further information on these projects visit: www.planning.ubc.ca/corebus/devapps.html.
Annual UBC Remembrance Day Ceremony
This year’s UBC Remembrance Day service will be held on Saturday, November 11 in the War Memorial Gym at 10:50 a.m. It will help to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the First United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
The ceremony, which often draws more than 1,000 people, will include music provided by the UBC School of Music, short readings and remarks. The guest speaker will be Captain Richard J. Van Slyke, MMM DC, a UBC alumnus and Director of Music for the Band of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. Van Slyke, a qualified parachutist and artilleryman, has served in Canada and with NATO forces in Europe.
UBC Vice President, Research John Hepburn and AMS Vice President, Academic Jeff Friedrich, will also be among this year’s speakers.
The event is open to all, and doors open at 10 a.m. Parking is free in the vicinity of the War Memorial Gym, up to 1 p.m.
For directions, go to www.maps.ubc.ca.
For more information, visit: www.ceremonies.ubc.ca/ceremonies/memorial/remembrance.html.
Creative Writing Prof. and Alumni Nominated for Governor General’s Literary Awards
UBC Creative Writing Adjunct Prof. Glen Huser has earned a nomination for the Governor General’s Literary Awards for his children’s book Skinnybones and Wrinkle Queen (Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, distributed by HarperCollins Canada).
Elizabeth Bachinsky, MFA 2004, is nominated for Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood Editions; distributed by Harbour Publishing), and Bill Gaston, MFA 1978, is nominated for Gargoyles (House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)
The winners will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. at simultaneous news conferences in Toronto and Montreal.
For more information: www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2006/jo128049818717963491.htm.
