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UBC This Week

Recent UBC Media Releases Oct. 9: UBC engineering students unveil moon dust-shoveling robot before NASA competition Oct. 8: Flex your brainpower with Intellectual Muscle Upcoming Event Highlights Oct. 17: Saturday […]

Oct 15, 2009

Engineers Without Borders hosts Fair Trade pancake breakfast

UBC Engineers Without Borders will be serving choco-banana pancakes at their Fair Trade Breakfast next week. Date: Oct. 21 Time: 8 – 11 a.m. Place: Kaiser Atrium, 2332 Main Mall […]

Oct 15, 2009

Green College presents Visiting Professor

Sander Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University, will visit the UBC campus October 20-24 as Green College’s Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor. […]

Oct 15, 2009

19th annual Apple Festival

At the 19th annual UBC Apple Festival, more than 50 varieties of apples (many of them heritage) will be available to taste and purchase. Attractions will include a cider press […]

Oct 15, 2009

First International Open Access Week at UBC

UBC is one of more than 120 institutions worldwide that will participate in the First International Open Access Week. UBC members will give workshops and panel discussions on their involvement […]

Oct 15, 2009

Green College launches new website

Green College has launched their new website which highlights their calendar of free interdisciplinary lectures and featured guest speakers, weekday dinners at the College, and booking venue spaces and guest […]

Oct 15, 2009

UBC engineering student only Canadian to win Live EDGE Scholarship

Shaun Lee, third-year engineering physics (Electrical Option) student, was awarded the Live EDGE Scholarship valued at $2,500 by element14. Lee was the sole Canadian recipient among 12 award winners. element14 […]

Oct 15, 2009

UBC professor of emergency medicine receives quality and safety leadership award

Dr. Julian Marsden, clinical professor and acting co-head of the UBC Dept. of Emergency Medicine, has received the 2009 Leadership in Quality and Safety Award from the BC Patient Safety […]

Oct 15, 2009

Two UBC research teams awarded grants on psychosocial aspects of breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research Alliance and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to examine psychosocial aspects of breast cancer. Asst. Prof. Chris Richardson, Faculty of School of Population and Public Health, and […]

Oct 15, 2009

UBC engineering students head to NASA competition

The UBC TREAD robot team will compete in the NASA Regolith Excavator Centennial Challenge at Ames Research Air Force Base in Mountain View, California on Oct. 17. The robot will […]

Oct 15, 2009

New UBC Centre Leader for the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program

Liisa Holsti, assistant professor at the UBC Dept. of Occupational Science and Occupational, and clinician scientist with the Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI), has assumed a new role as […]

Oct 15, 2009

UBC appoints Vice Provosts in Health and Information Technology

Dr. Gavin Stuart has been appointed to the new role of Vice Provost Health and Ted Dodds to the new position of Vice Provost Information Technology. Stuart was recently re-appointed […]

Oct 15, 2009

UBC investigators receive CIHR funding for H1N1 research

Three UBC health researchers are part of five new national research projects designed to help further and address the H1N1 flu virus that were announced Oct. 14 by the Canadian […]

Oct 15, 2009