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UBC This Week

UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event highlights. UBC This Week past issues are also available on-line.

Oct 8, 2009

Flex your brainpower with Intellectual Muscle

As Canada prepares to host the world’s best, Vancouver 2010 and The Globe and Mail are partnering on a unique project inviting the public to flex their intellect via podcasts by some of the country’s best minds on topics related to the 2010 Winter Games.

Oct 8, 2009

UBC doctoral candidate wins international economics award

UBC doctoral candidate Laura Turner was awarded a Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Award at the 24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) in Barcelona. The award is […]

Oct 8, 2009

A Celebration of Life for Abraham Jedidiah Rogatnick

A memorial celebration will be held for Abraham Jedidiah Rogatnick, former UBC professor of architecture. In 1959 he initiated a Study Abroad Program that provides students with learning experiences in […]

Oct 8, 2009

UBC film alumni and faculty screen at 2009 VIFF

The 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) features 11 ?lms by UBC film students, alumni and faculty. UBC alumnus David Hauka wrote and directed his thesis documentary Certainty while completing […]

Oct 8, 2009

UBC profs and BC Cancer Agency team decode entire genome of metastatic breast cancer

Prof. Sam Aparicio of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology, and Prof. of Medical Genetics Marco Marra, create landmark genome that illuminates cancer development and offers new hope for fighting the disease.

Oct 8, 2009

Tropical regions to be hardest hit by fisheries shifts caused by climate change: UBC research

Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at UBC.

Oct 8, 2009