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Recent UBC Media Releases Dec. 2: B.C.’s new Rhodes Scholar a global health advocate Dec. 1: UBC gains $20M in 29 Canada Research Chairs Nov. 30: UBC and HSBC Bank […]
Dec 2, 2010
“Where does inspiration come from? How will your work change the world?” UBC students, staff, faculty, and alumni can now answer these questions and more in the UBC 2009-2010 Annual […]
The School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) celebrated the grand opening of its new building at 2206 East Mall last Friday. The move from the James Mather building to […]
Fourteen research projects on population health intervention research received $2.8 million in funding. The Vice-President of Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Dr. Pierre Chartrand announced these initiatives […]
Prof. Akram Alfantazi of the Dept. of Materials Engineering has been selected as the UBC recipient of the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (mid-career category) for 2010. The award […]
The recipient of the 2010 Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art is UBC’s Scott Watson, director and curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and […]
UBC researchers Art Cherkasov and Paul Rennie of the Vancouver Prostate Centre are tackling the deadliest forms of prostate cancer, using a brand new field of genomics called computational chemogenomics […]
The Canadian Music Centre has announced that Stephen Chatman, a professor and head of composition at UBC School of Music, has been given the Society of Composers, Authors and Music […]
Gail Murphy, acting head and professor of Dept. of Computer Science, was named Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist. The honour recognizes ACM members with at least 15 years […]
The Faculty of Medicine’s distributed medical education program has won two national awards for innovation in medical education — the Ted Freedman Award and the COACH Best Innovation in Technology […]
Michael Hayden, professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Genetics, is the latest addition to the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR). Widely known and highly regarded in […]
UBC mechanical engineering professor Yusuf Altintas was inducted Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) in Ottawa on Nov. 27, 2010. Election to the RSC is the highest honour […]
UBC Dean of Arts and Haitian scholar Gage Averill has been nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for his project, Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings For The Library of Congress, […]
The Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systemic expansion of industrialized fisheries.
A University of British Columbia student with a passion to improve healthcare for those who can least afford it is this year’s recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship for British Columbia.
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