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Sep. 20, 2002

• Bank of Canada Governor speaks at UBC
• UBC librarian accepted to prestigious program
• UBC honoured for international initiatives

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Bank of Canada Governor speaks at UBC

David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada, spoke at UBC's Robson Square campus on Sept. 18. In his remarks, Dodge predicted that the Canadian economy would continue to grow in the coming months.

"It remains the bank's view that as the Canadian economy continues to expand and to approach capacity, we're going to have to take further timely and measured actions to reduce the amount of monetary stimulus," he said.

UBC President Martha Piper noted that it was particularly fitting that Dodge made his speech from a university campus.

"His choice of venue, in my mind, reinforces the importance of government, business and academia working together - openly, transparently and for the public good," she said in her introduction.

This visit was not Dodge's first to UBC - he was a Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce in 1997/98.

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UBC librarian accepted to prestigious program

UBC Library's Tomoko Goto, a reference librarian for Japanese materials in the Asian Library, has been accepted to a prestigious Japanese training program.

This December she will attend the FY 2002 Training Program for Information Specialists of Japanese Studies, a joint program sponsored by the Japanese National Diet (federal government) Library and the Japan Foundation. Goto is one of only nine people worldwide to be accepted into the program this year. She will study current trends and tools to help her manage the UBC Library's extensive Japanese collection.

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UBC honoured for international initiatives

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has chosen UBC to receive one of four Scotiabank-AUCC Awards for Excellence in Internationalization.

These awards recognize universities' efforts to bring an international perspective to the teaching, research and service functions of their campuses. UBC received its award for the Global Resource Systems Program, under the category "Broadening the Student Experience."

The other three award-winners were Dalhousie University, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus. The awards will be celebrated at a national gala on October 23, 2002, in Ottawa.

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