UBC This Week 25-Jul-2013

 

Recent UBC Media Releases

Jul 25 Women in rural areas have less access to abortion than urban counterparts
Jul 25 Captured: Mysterious oyster killers
Jul 22 Beaty Museum upgrades Phylo card game to teach biodiversity

Upcoming Event Highlights

Jul 24-Sep 29 Paradise Lost? Contemporary Works from the Pacific
Jul 26 Comedy on Campus: Summer School Edition
Jul 27 Fraser Valley Slow Food Cycle Tour
Jul 27 UBC Farm Saturday Market
Jul 27 Great Cities of the Pre-Modern World: London, Delhi and Beijing
Jul 28 Point Grey Triathlon
Jul 28 Vancouver Early Music Festival: My Heart’s in the Highlands
Jul 29 American Prophet: The Legacy and Challenge of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jul 29 Teens Only – Warriors of Japan: The Samurai in Myth and Reality
Jul 30-Aug 1 Fabricating Fashion? A three-day workshop with Rosanna Raymond and Katrina Talei Igglesden
Jul 30 Community Engagement Working Group
Jul 31 Giving teaching back to education: Responding to the disappearance of the teacher
Jul 31 Tears of Hope and Change: The Need for Lament in a Multicultural World
Aug 1 Copyright Clinic Drop-in
Aug 1 Advanced Medline Searching workshop
Aug 1 Vancouver Early Music Festival: LuteFest 2
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

HELP researchers among team to receive Brain Canada Grant

Human Early Learning Partnership’s (HELP) Michael Kobor, W. Thomas Boyce and the late Clyde Hertzman are among a team of researchers who have received $1.5 million in inaugural funding from the Brain Canada and W. Garfield Weston Foundation Multi-Investigator Research Initiative. The research team, which also includes researchers at McGill University and the University of Ottawa, will use the grant for epigenetics research focused on identifying the early-life origins of mental health and disease. Specifically, the team will be investigating how environmental factors can “get under the skin” to alter the function of genes throughout the life course. For more information, click here.

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CREST.BD Network receives CIHR grant

The CREST.BD network has secured a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Knowledge to Action (KTA) grant for $200,000. Titled “Like a ship that’s always righting itself: Self-management of bipolar disorder, from evidence to action,” the two-year project will test a variety of ways of sharing knowledge on bipolar disorder self-management with two user groups – people living with bipolar disorder and their healthcare providers.

The KTA research team is led by Dr. Erin Michalak, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry. This study will support a new UBC collaboration between CREST.BD and the UBC eHealth Strategy Office, led by Dr. Kendall Ho, Director, eHealth Strategy Office, Faculty of Medicine. For more information, click here.

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SALA Master of Urban Design degree to start in 2014

The B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education has approved the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture’s (SALA) proposed Master of Urban Design program. This master’s program will be unique in British Columbia and the only Canadian program west of Toronto.

The first cohort of students with previous professional degrees in architecture, landscape architecture or planning will be admitted for the 2014-15 academic year. Applications begin early fall 2013. For more information, click here.

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Applied Science and CMC Microsystems open new Adaptive Microsystems Lab

UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science and CMC Microsystems have opened an innovative new microsystems research lab called the Adaptive Microsystems Laboratory, or “AdaMist”. The facility is now part of the nation-wide Embedded Systems Canada (emSYSCAN) initiative. For more information, click here.

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John Friedmann Award creation honours UBC planning prof

School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) honorary professor John Friedmann has been honoured by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) with the creation of the John Friedmann Award. The award will recognize exemplary scholarship in the area of planning sustainability, defined to include subject areas such as environment, urban design, health, transportation, disaster preparedness, urban or regional governance, or other areas critical to the sustainability of urban or regional places. For more information, click here.

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UBC engineer appointed Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Chemical and Biological Engineering professor James Feng has been appointed a Distinguished Scholar in Residence by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies for 2014-15. Feng holds a Canada Research Chair in Complex Fluids and Interfaces and a joint appointment with UBC’s Department of Mathematics. His interdisciplinary work seeks to exploit mixtures of complex fluids for novel engineering and biomedical applications, such as improved processes for controlled drug release and investigations into the dynamics of pathological cells—damaged red blood cells found in malaria and cancer. For more information, click here.

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Engineering prof publishes new handbook on seismic risk analysis

In a new publication, Handbook of seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems, engineering professor Solomon Tesfamariam has co-edited a series of articles that look at the assessment of seismic risks to buildings, bridges, water supply systems and other aspects of civil infrastructure. For more information, click here.

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Nurse practitioner featured in Ha-Shilth-Sa

Tania Dick, adjunct professor and graduate of the Master of Nursing Nurse Practitioner program, is featured in a new article in Ha-shilth-Sa, a newspaper published by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council. Her experience providing primary care in Aboriginal communities, as well as her encouragement of B.C. Aboriginal youth in pursuing nursing careers is the focus of the article. For more information, click here.

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Mitacs Globalink student studying train communications

The Mitacs Globalink program brings in top undergraduate students from around the world to UBC and Canada. One of the Globalink students, Madhuri Suthar, is working in Electrical and Computer Engineering Prof. Dave Michelson’s lab looking into the next generation in wireless communications for railways. She is researching why wireless signals are sometimes blocked or lost. Suthar believes that high-speed trains will become more and more popular due to the rising price of flying, and because they are faster and have no traffic issues. For more information, click here.

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Best Paper Award at ICWE 2013

Electrical and Computer Engineering Prof. Ali Mesbah and Zahra Behfarshad received the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) for their paper titled “Hidden-Web Induced by Client-Side Scripting: An Empirical Study.” The conference took place July 8-12, 2013.

For more information, click here.

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Hungry Nomad Food Truck brings street food to campus

UBC Food Services introduces their new Hungry Nomad food truck offering hot sandwiches and comfort food classics. On the menu are specials and features made with local sustainable ingredients: Fishwich Ocean Wise tempura cod, BBQ pulled pork and B.C. brisket sandwiches, salads, sides and beverages.

Date: Monday to Friday
Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Place: usually at East Mall and University Boulevard
Twitter: @HungryNomadUBC
www.food.ubc.ca

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