UBC This Week 20-Feb-2014

Feb 20, 2014

 

Recent UBC Media Releases
Feb 20 Scientists create powerful artificial muscle with fishing line
Feb 20 University to tackle gender-based violence, Aboriginal stereotypes
Feb 20 The race to save endangered languages
Feb 19 Study finds nothing so sweet as a voice like your own
Feb 19 Why Canada needs healthy prisons
Feb 14 Researchers discover how ALS spreads
Feb 14 South African healthcare workers face greater risk for TB, HIV

Upcoming Event Highlights
Feb 20-21 Health Beyond Bars: Towards Healthy Prisons in Canada
Feb 21 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World film screening
Feb 22 Walking Tour: False Creek – 45 Years of Planning Innovation
Feb 22 UBCRC All You Can Eat Taiwanese Nightmarket
Feb 23 FestEVOLVE 2014
Feb 24-28 Freedom to Read Week at UBC Library
Feb 24 Positive Space workshop
Feb 24 UBC Sustainability Fair
Feb 24 Is There a Microscopic Physical Reality?
Feb 25 Ice Skate with Jump Start
Feb 25 Intercultural Language Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Feb 26 Turning Science into Policy
Feb 26 SCARP lecture presents Anne McMullin: Real estate development
Feb 27 Videomatica film screening: Videodrome
Feb 27 Testing the effectiveness of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative on neonatal wards for increasing exclusive breastfeeding and reducing preterm infant mortality morbidity in Brazil
Mar 1 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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.