UBC This Week

The Office of the Vice-President Research and International has announced the recipients of the annual UBC Faculty Research Awards and will honour them at the Celebrate Research Week Awards gala on March 11 at the Museum of Anthropology.

The award nominations are made by students, colleagues and alumni and adjudicated by the Faculty Awards Committee which includes members from the Arts and Humanities, Medicine, Science and Applied Science disciplines.

To view profiles of this year’s winners, visit http://www.celebrateresearch.ubc.ca/award-winners-2009/

Killam Faculty Research Fellowship Junior Category
Jeffrey Richards, Zoology
Rafeef AbuGarbieh, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kiran Soma, Psychology
James Feng, Mathematics, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Patricia Shulte, Zoology
Z. Jane Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Killam Faculty Research Fellowship Senior Category
Reinhard Jetter, Botany and Chemistry
Susan Grayston, Forest Sciences
Stephanie Chang, School of Community and Regional Planning
Susan Herrington, Architecture and Landscape Architecture

UBC Killam Research Prize Business, Arts and Humanities Category
Joseph Henrich, Psychology
John X. Cooper, English
Tan Wang, Finance

UBC Killam Research Prize Science, Applied Science, Medicine Category
Andrea Damascelli, Physics and Astronomy
Stan Floresco, Psychology
Vijay Bhargava, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tim Murphy, Psychiatry
Helen Burt, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jacob Biely Research Prize
Michael Hayden, Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics

Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research
Lutz Lampe, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dorothy Somerset Award
Robert Gardiner, Theatre and Film

Sam Black Award
Geraldine Pratt, Geography

President’s Award for Public Education through Media
Patricia Janssen, School of Population and Public Health

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Nassif Ghoussoub, a professor in the UBC Dept. of Mathematics and scientific director of the Banff International Research Station, has received the 2010 Canadian Mathematical Society Borwein Career Award.  The award recognizes individuals who have made exceptional, broad and continued contributions to Canadian mathematics.

For more information, visit http://www.math.ca/Prizes/info/db.html

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UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering Asst. Prof. Eric Lagally has been awarded a 2010 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Mentorship Award, for excellence in mentoring undergraduate students in research at UBC. Lagally was nominated by UBC’s 2009 iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machines) team for his leadership and support of students in their efforts to compete in the iGEM Competition hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For more information, visit http://www.engineering.ubc.ca/news/2010/feb25.html

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UBC’s Asian Library, home to the largest Asian volume collection in Canada, will commemorate its 50th anniversary with a celebration.  Speakers will include Ingrid Parent, University Librarian, Eleanor Yuen, Asian Library Head Librarian, Robban A.J. Toleno,  Asian Studies PhD student, Assoc. Prof. Henry Yu, Dept. of History, Wes Pue, Vice Provost and AVP Academic Resources, and a representative of the Ron Bick Lee family.

Date: March 5
Time 2:30 p.m.
Place: Auditorium of the Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall
Info: RSVP to library.development@ubc.ca or 604-827-4112
www.library.ubc.ca/asian/celebrating50

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Ingrid Parent, UBC’s University Librarian, is inviting members of the UBC community to an event entitled Get up close with cIRcle: Revealing your research to the world.  cIRcle is UBC’s openly accessible digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. Three UBC scholars will talk about using cIRcle to disseminate research.

Date: March 10
Time: 2 – 3 p.m.
Place: Lillooet Room, level three of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Info: Free admission, light refreshments served. To register, e-mail
circle-events@interchange.ubc.ca by March 4.

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