UBC This Week 02-Aug-2012

Aug 2, 2012

 

Recent UBC Media Releases
Aug 2 UBC project examines the LGBT experience with breast and gynecological cancers
Aug 1 UBC students race robots in stacking blocks “faster than a pre-schooler”
Aug 1 Students trading sex for drugs or alcohol happens also in rural B.C. – UBC research
Jul 31 New home for UBC Rugby
Jul 31 Being paranoid about office politics can make you a target: UBC research
Jul 30 ‘Only you can prevent forest fires’ … with your smartphone
Jul 26 Olympics research and story ideas from UBC
   
 

Upcoming Event Highlights
Aug 3 Refworks: the Basics – UBC Library Workshop
Aug 3 BioChem: Cell Cycle Control of Centrosome Duplication and Chromosome Segregation
Aug 4 UBC Slam Workshop
Aug 5 Way Cool Biodiversity Series: Kelps are way cool because…
Aug 5 The Early Moderns: Extravagant and inventive music of the 17th century
Aug 7 Toastmasters Club Open House at UBC Point Grey Campus
Aug 8 Sweelinck and Gesualdo: Masters of the Madrigal from North and South
Aug 9 Word Press Basics 1
   
  Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/calendar.aspx.

 

UBC People

UBC People

UBC scholar tops international field at Tokyo conference presentation

UBC student Ryan Trenholm of the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences took home the Top Oral Presenter award at the global Undergraduate Research Conference at Universitas 21 held in Tokyo in early July. 

Trenholm dazzled judges at the international showcase of almost 60 undergraduate students from 23 of the world’s leading universities with his talk “Reducing Water Usage in Civic Parks Using Adaptive Irrigation.”  He was one of three presenters from UBC and the only Canadian to win an award.

Trenholm follows in the footsteps of another Barber School student, Andrew Hughes, who won the Best Presentation award at the U21 Research Conference in Melbourne in 2010.

For more information, visit: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2012/07/31/top-prize-awarded-to-ubc-undergraduate-researcher/.

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Four new appointments to Faculty of Medicine’s leadership

The Faculty of Medicine has announced the following appointments:

• Dr. Frederick Mikelberg as Vice-Dean, Academic Affairs;
• Dr. David Maberley as Head, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences;
• Dr. Aslam Anis as Director, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences;
• Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger as Assistant Dean, Faculty Development

For more information, visit: http://med.ubc.ca/four-new-appointments-to-facultys-leadership/

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2012 Rio Tinto Alcan Research Fellowship

PhD candidate Amir Mehdi Dehkhoda has won the 2012 Rio Tinto Alcan fellowship, awarded to a graduate student in a field of pure or applied science related to Rio Tinto Alcan’s activities.

Dehkhoda’s proposed research project was categorized under the “Environment” research area of Rio Tinto Alcan as a potential purification method in aluminum production waste minimization.

For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/NbtemV.

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