STDs, sporting events and ski resorts
- What: STDs in ski resorts and around major sporting events
- Who: Jennifer Matthews, Project Director, Stigma and Resilience
Among Vulnerable Youth Consortium, UBC School of Nursing - Contact: Call UBC 2010 Media Centre 604.822.6397,
jenmatthews07@gmail.com
Are major sporting events like the 2010 Winter Games a “moral holiday” for athletes and spectators alike? UBC Nursing researcher Jennifer Matthews has studied the phenomenon of intoxicated sex at Whistler and sexually transmitted infections around major sporting events and can offer insights into the public health consequences of athletes’ “work hard, play hard” mentality. Read more at: www.whistlerguysstudy.com
Will social media help you find love during the Olympics?
- What: Constructing a “quality date” identity for online dating
- Who: Jacqueline Shoemaker Holmes, sessional lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry, Faculty of Education
- Contact: Call UBC 2010 Media Centre 604.822.6397, jschoema@interchange.ubc.ca
Jacqueline Shoemaker Holmes considers how people find love – or at least dates – as crowds descend upon Vancouver this February. What role does social media – including the proliferation of online dating sites – play in allowing individuals to connect during and after the Games?
Marriage and medals — an Olympian challenge
- What: Pressures of elite performance on the marriage of UBC alum, Canadian Olympian Jeff Pain (skeleton) to spouse Aly Pain
- Who: Aly Pain discusses challenges and victories of their 12-year marriage and new book The Business of Marriage and Medals
- Contact: Aly Pain, 403.836.8790, aly@marriageandmedals.com
Note: Jeff Pain is sequestered prior to his races and is unavailable for interviews until Feb. 20.
Vancouver celebrates Lunar New Year
One in five residents of Metro Vancouver is ethnically Chinese, making the Lunar New Year one of the major celebrations in the city this weekend.
- What: Asian migration to Canada, Head Tax, Chinese in British Columbia, multiculturalism, racism, sports and race, Chinatown
- Who: Assoc. Prof. Henry Yu, UBC Dept. of History
- Contact: henryyu@interchange.ubc.ca
And:
- What: UBC students from China give their perspective on celebrating New Year during the excitement of the Games
- Who: International students are available for interviews upon request
- Contact: UBC Public Affairs, 604.822.6397
Architect transforms forgotten Chinatown courtyard into gallery
UBC Architecture Prof. Inge Roeker has led the transformation of a forgotten courtyard in Vancouver’s Chinatown into an illuminated canopy of light and space.
Part of the Bright Light public art series, GO! Gallery also features special umbrellas with printed maps of the other Bright Light galleries, video projections, light installations and programmed social events.
- Where: Yue Shan Courtyard, 39 East Pender St. (between Columbia Street and Van Groceries)
- When: February 13 to 28, 6 to 10 p.m.
- Contact: Prof. Inge Roeker, 778.847.4994, roecker@interchange.ubc.ca
Visit UBC’s Online 2010 Media Centre — www.ubc.ca/2010media — to connect with UBC 2010 experts, story ideas and students from your country.
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