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UBC This Week 20-Jun-2013

  Upcoming Event Highlights Jun 20 UBC Medical Alumni Association Alumni & Friends Golf Tournament Jun 20 VISI Emerging Artist Series Jun 21 Songfire Festival: For Poulenc Jun 22 Ethics […]

AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre has moved

The Alma Mater Society (AMS) Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) at UBC’s Vancouver campus has relocated to a new space within the Student Union Building. The SASC can now be […]

Pop Rocks garners further media coverage

Pop Rocks, the art installation by Amber Frid-Jimenez and School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture professors Matthew Soules and Joseph Dahmen, was featured in Canadian Architect magazine. The oversized beanbags […]

Students bike from Vancouver to Inuvik to engage youth in environmental protection

Saskia Vaisey, an incoming UBC student this fall, is one four Canadian university students biking from Vancouver to Inuvik this summer to raise awareness about climate change. The group, named […]

Team UBC and the Ride to Conquer Cancer 2013

On June 15, 19 riders and two crew volunteers set off on a two-day, 240-kilometre bike journey to Seattle in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, benefitting the B.C. Cancer Foundation. This […]

UBC Aboriginal math camps expand reach in rural BC

About 100 Aboriginal children in rural B.C. will be able to attend math summer camps hosted by UBC thanks to a $30,000 gift from Royal Bank’s RBC Foundation. The camps, […]

Pharmaceutical Sciences building wins 2013 AZ award

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences building has won Azure magazine’s 2013 AZ Award in the category of best commercial architecture over 1,000 square metres. This is the eighth award that the building […]

UBC Okanagan students awarded medals

Ten students are recognized with gold medals for being at the top of their graduating class at UBC’s Okanagan campus convocation. The individual awards can be viewed here.

RBC helps expand reach of UBC Aboriginal math camps

RBC helps expand reach of UBC Aboriginal math camps

More Aboriginal children will be able to attend math summer camps thanks to new support.

Graduate student wins poster award

Phoebe Yingjie Li, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Engineering, won the third place award in the student poster competition at the Forest Innovation by Research and Education […]

Thunderbots competing in RoboCup World Championship

The UBC Thunderbots are leaving to compete in the RoboCup World Championship in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from June 24 to July 1. Thunderbots FC have redesigned major components of their […]

Engineers sail to victory with a perfect score

The UBC Sailbots successfully defended their championship, winning the 2013 International Robotic Sailing Regatta held June 9-13 in Gloucester, MA. The UBC Sailbot team – Kristoffer Vik Hansen (captain), David […]

2013 NSERC Discovery Grant Accelerator Supplements Award recipients

Civil engineering professors Nemy Banthia, Ken Elwood and Bernard Laval have received 2013 Discovery Grant Accelerator Supplement Awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Only […]

UBC profs honoured by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Five civil engineering professors and one graduate student were honoured by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) during its annual conference in Montreal from May 29-June 1. • Prof. Dharma […]

Computer science prof named in Top 10 Women in Technology by BC Tech

Computer science professor and co-founder and CSO of Tasktop Technologies Gail Murphy was named one of Top 10 Women in Technology by BC Tech magazine. As a leading researcher on […]

Clyde Hertzman honoured with Champion of Human Services Award

UBC Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) founding director, the late Clyde Hertzman was honoured with a Champion of Human Services Award by the Board of Directors of the Ontario Municipal […]

B.C. initiative to combat HIV/AIDS receives international funding

UBC professor Dr. Julio Montaner has been awarded a $2.5 million research award over five years from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support his continued research […]

UBC Reports – June 20, 2013

UBC Reports | June 20, 2013

Aboriginal (Un)History Month at UBC Library

Aboriginal (Un)History Month at UBC Library Sat, June 1 – Sun, June 30 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall [map] Asian Library, 1871 West Mall [map] Throughout the […]

Quality use of medicines

Quality use of medicines

Assistant Prof. Barbara Mintzes talks about appropriate prescribing of medicines.