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UBC This Week 16-Aug-2012

  Recent UBC Media Releases Aug 15 Global ocean health gets passing grade: UBC researchers       Upcoming Event Highlights Aug 17 Love’s Lament: Italian Solo Cantatas circa 1700 […]

Aug 16, 2012

Times Higher Ed runs short video competition

Times Higher Education magazine is inviting students, student unions, university faculty and administrative staff to make a 10-second video that completes the sentence “My university is world-class because…” The short-video […]

Aug 16, 2012

UBC Curriculum and Pedagogy presented at IAACS conference

Four members of UBC’s Dept. of Curriculum and Pedagogy contributed to the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS) in Rio de Janeiro on July 2 to 5. […]

Aug 16, 2012

SALA prof and UBC alumnus win awards of excellence for affordable housing ideas

Ian Ross McDonald, adjunct faculty at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), and his former student Andrew Neumann won awards of excellence in two of the juried categories […]

Aug 16, 2012

UBC professor awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Arvind Gupta, chief executive officer and scientific director of Mitacs and professor at UBC Dept. of Computer Science, is the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Gupta […]

Aug 16, 2012

World ranking puts UBC at 39

The University of British Columbia ranks 39th in the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), prepared by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UBC ranked 37 last year, and has consistently […]

Aug 16, 2012

Tap and rope guide blind swimmer to victory

UBC alumnus Donovan Tildesley, Canada’s flagbearer in Beijing, will compete in his fourth Paralympics this month.

Aug 15, 2012

Award-winning ideas for affordable housing

Ian Ross McDonald, adjunct faculty at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), received an award of excellence for his affordable housing idea in the recent City of Vancouver  re:THINK HOUSING […]

Aug 15, 2012

Global ocean health gets passing grade: UBC researchers

The health of the world’s oceans received a score of 60 out of 100 from a team of international scientists, including fisheries researchers at the University of British Columbia.

Aug 15, 2012

Recap: Looking back at UBC and the 2012 Olympics

Bronze medals, swim-offs, meeting royalty: the 2012 Summer Olympics featured much excitement for past and current UBC students.

Aug 14, 2012

Historic day for Gleadle in London

Former UBC Thunderbird Liz Gleadle made Canadian track and field history today at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

Aug 9, 2012

UBC This Week 09-Aug-2012

  Recent UBC Media Releases Aug 8 UBC education experts for back-to-school stories       Upcoming Event Highlights Aug 10 Peril in the Ponds: Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a […]

Aug 9, 2012

History professor receives Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

UBC history professor and Saint John’s College Principal, Henry Yu, has  received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.  The Jack Gin Family Foundation awarded a limited number of medals […]

Aug 9, 2012

UBC education experts for back-to-school stories

UBC experts are available to comment on kindergarten to Grade 12 and post-secondary education issues.

Aug 8, 2012

Mason finishes eighth; Gleadle into Olympic final

Former UBC Thunderbird Mike Mason capped off a great comeback year by finishing eighth in the men’s high jump at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London today.

Aug 8, 2012

Hayden and Dickens finish 8th

Former UBC Thunderbird swimmers Brent Hayden and Scott Dickens led the Canadian men’s 4x100m medley relay team to an eighth place finish at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Aug 4, 2012

Sauder Prof helps 2012 Canadian Olympic team go carbon neutral

As the 2012 Olympics swing into action, the world’s attention turns to athletes striving for medals, but what many overlook is the event’s long term impact on the environment.

Aug 3, 2012

UBC This Week 02-Aug-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 […]

Aug 2, 2012

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 […]

Aug 2, 2012

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 […]

Aug 2, 2012