UBC Reports | Vol. 47 | No. 15 | October 4, 2001

What we do matters more than ever: Piper

Faculty, staff and students who are searching for answers, building community, leading debate and finding solutions in communities locally, nationally and globally were the focus of UBC's fourth annual general meeting held last week.
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UBC scholars strive to create court to try world criminals

While the United States hunts for Osama bin Laden and other suspects in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, UBC's International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR) has been working on a legal antidote that could help bring international criminals to justice without the use of military action.
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Flour power puts fun in fundraiser

In Health Sciences, a United Way tradition has evolved into an ad hoc contest to determine which celebrity chef can create the best pancake in the shape of a vital organ.
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Web service aimed at rewarding honesty

UBC students who are tempted to plagiarize by copying text from Internet sources without citations may soon be required to change their ways.
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Student volunteers nurture science in growing minds

More B.C. youngsters are thinking and talking about science, thanks to the efforts of UBC graduate students like Beth Simpson.
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Peacekeeper, ecologist featured in popular series

Retired Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, leading thinker Freeman Dyson and UBC Prof. Judith Myers, one of Canada's foremost ecologists, are among the speakers in the 85th season of the Vancouver Institute's free public lecture series at UBC.
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Plants may cut cholesterol: researchers to investigate

Pharmaceutical sciences Assoc. Prof. Kishor Wasan and Haydn Pritchard, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences, have received a collaborative research grant of almost $946,000 over three years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and UBC spin-off Forbes Medi-Tech Inc.
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