UBC This Week 13-Jun-2013

Next week on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, the RCMP are conducting a large-scale emergency exercise on our Vancouver campus from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Most of the campus will remain open, and the exercise will be limited to the following area on the south section of campus. Four buildings will be closed:

• Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall
• Landscape Architecture Annex, 2371 Main Mall
• H.R. MacMillan Building, 2357 Main Mall
• Totem Park Residence – q’ələχən house, 2525 West Mall

During this time drivers should expect road closures on Agronomy Road between West Mall and Health Sciences Mall. There will be pedestrian restrictions along Agronomy Road and on Main Mall near the H.R. MacMillan Building.

People near the buildings involved may expect to hear loud noises, including sirens from emergency vehicles. The exercise will include a number of volunteers who will be acting as bystanders and victims. For more information, contact communications@riskmanagement.ubc.ca.

For information and a map of the closures, click here.

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Deborah Money, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, received the 2013 Woman of Distinction Award in the Technology, Science and Research category from the YWCA Metro Vancouver. The award was presented at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Women of Distinction Awards on May 28 in Vancouver.

Money is internationally recognized for her ground-breaking work in reproductive infectious diseases. She led B.C.’s research to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission and through her leadership in patient care, transmission of HIV from the mother to newborn in B.C. has essentially been eradicated.

For more information, click here.

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Dr. Brian Cairns from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of three recipients of the 2012 Pfizer Canada Pain Research Awards. The awards provide funding grants to outstanding research that has the potential to improve the quality of life for people living with pain.

Cairns will research whether glutamate can activate the nerve fibers that are responsible for headache pain and whether natural elevation of glutamate levels is part of the mechanism that initiates headaches. To read more, click here.

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Computer Science professor David Poole has received the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes a lifetime of scientific excellence and outstanding contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. For more information, click here.

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Suzanne Idle, a second-year UBC Master of Health Administration (MHA) student, is one of six of Canada’s top emerging health care professionals who were awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Award at the National Health Leadership Conference. The award recognizes individual achievement and promising contributions in the field of health services management.

Idle’s current focus is her research work with the Vancouver Native Health Society Garden Project on an indigenous approach to program evaluation, which honours both her First Nations Gitxsan ancestry and the Vancouver urban indigenous population who access the Garden Project. For more information, click here.

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Mechanical engineering masters student Seth Gilchrist received the Dr. Margaret H. Hines Award for Best Poster Presentation at the 9th Annual Injury Biomechanics Symposium (IBS) held at Ohio State University in May. His poster “Characterizing the stiffness change of the proximal femur between quasi-static and dynamic loading in a fall configuration,” concentrates on the experimental results of a project that attempts to increase the understanding of how hip fractures occur.

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Learn more about how robots and humans can work together from mechanical engineering professor Elizabeth Croft.

Date: June 13
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: H.R. Macmillan Space Centre
Info: http://www.spacecentre.ca/women-in-science

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