Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Teaching Excellence and Innovation awards

Three professors in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBC’s Okanagan campus were honoured with Teaching Excellence and Innovation awards. Naomi McPherson, associate professor of anthropology, […]

May 10, 2012

SPPH faculty and staff recognized

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) Asst. Prof. Jason Sutherland has been named the Canadian Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. Sutherland will be working with leading […]

May 10, 2012

Wine Research Centre honoured by the Canada Science and Technology museums

Prof. Hennie van Vuuren, Director of the Wine Research Centre at UBC, has been honoured by the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation in Ottawa for major scientific breakthroughs that […]

May 10, 2012

Teva appoints Michael Hayden president of global research and development and chief scientific officer

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has announced that Dr. Michael R. Hayden will join the company as the president of global research and development and chief scientific officer. In this new […]

May 10, 2012

start an evolution with UBC

This past year, UBC launched the most ambitious fundraising and alumni engagement campaign in Canadian history. The start an evolution campaign aims to raise $1.5 billion for students, research and […]

May 10, 2012

Want to learn Chinese characters? UBC has an app for that

The UBC Asian Studies App is the first university Asian language mobile application and boasts 10,000 digitally animated Chinese characters.

May 10, 2012 - by Basil Waugh

H1N1 discovery paves way for universal flu vaccine: UBC research

University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential way to develop universal flu vaccines and eliminate the need for seasonal flu vaccinations.

May 8, 2012

Hedge funds more like guardian angels than vultures: UBC research

New University of British Columbia research shows that – contrary to popular opinion – hedge funds have a positive influence when investing in U.S. companies filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

May 7, 2012

UBC to double enrolment in midwifery education program

The University of British Columbia’s Midwifery Program – bolstered by increased funding from the Province of British Columbia – will double in size over the next five years, a move intended to augment the number of pregnancy and childbirth specialists in B.C.

May 4, 2012

UBC This Week 3-May-2012

  Recent UBC Media Releases May 2 UBC digitization program brings B.C. history to the world May 2 Canadians don’t mean what we say about government spending: UBC researcher     […]

May 3, 2012

Asia Pacific Memo update – Japan’s Culture Industries: Cool or Cruel?

Short text memos or video interviews on current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are published twice-weekly in the Asia Pacific Memo series at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ • Japan’s Culture Industries: Cool […]

May 3, 2012

Live for the Moment: research-based images of life, death and young men

Live for the Moment is an exhibition featuring photos taken by research participants to answer questions about grief, loss and dealing with it as a man. The study was conducted […]

May 3, 2012

Great Reads at UBC Library

Last fall, UBC Library launched the Great Reads program at Koerner Library to provide campus residents, community members, faculty, staff and students easy access to leisure-reading materials ranging from Canadiana […]

May 3, 2012

Robson Reading Series: C.E. Gatchalian

C.E. Gatchalian will read from his new book Falling in Time – a play that stunned Vancouver theatre audiences when it premiered last November. He will also read from his […]

May 3, 2012

Engineering students awarded

Wilson Fung, an electrical and computer engineering PhD student working under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Tor Aamodt, has become the first Canadian student to win the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. […]

May 3, 2012

Slater Vecchio LLP establishes new entrance award

UBC Faculty of Law has announced a commitment of $45,000 from Slater Vecchio LLP to establish the Slater Vecchio LLP Trial Advocacy Entrance Award, the first full-tuition award supported by […]

May 3, 2012

Pharmacy student wins Merck Canada Fellowship

Shirin Rizzardo, a graduate student from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC, is the recipient of 2012 Merck Canada Inc. Postgraduate Pharmacy Fellowship Award. To read more, visit http://www.pharmacy.ubc.ca/aboutus/faculty-news/2012-05-03

May 3, 2012

UBC MFA student wins RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

UBC student Jen Neale has received the $5,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for her short story “Elk-Headed Man.” The prize recognizes writers under the age of 35 […]

May 3, 2012

LFS grad student receives Vancity Venture Challenge award

Land and Food Sytems grad student Ilana Labow received the first prize of $50,000 for Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society through the Vancity Venture Challenge. The competition was launched to […]

May 3, 2012

SALA faculty awarded Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund

Wendy Davidson and Kris Fox from UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture received a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Award for 2012/13 to continue to develop their Building Material […]

May 3, 2012