UBC News Digest

The UBC News Digest is a weekly summary of news stories about UBC people, research, learning, community, and internationalization initiatives. News Digest past issues are also available on-line.

Apr. 30, 2004

• Conference For Young Women Facing Breast Cancer at UBC
• UBC Students’ Plan Flies With Boeing
• Faculty Of Education Profs Honoured By Local School District
• PhD Student Receives Scholarship For Promoting Engineering To Women

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Conference For Young Women Facing Breast Cancer at UBC

On which date of a budding romance do you inform your companion that you have no breasts? How do you keep your bearings when you are catapulted from new motherhood to menopause? How can you relate to your friend’s wedding anxieties about when you are worried about planning your own funeral? To support young women facing these questions, a group of young breast cancer patients, several of whom work at UBC and call themselves “The Young and the Breastless,” are organizing the first conference of its kind May 14 and 15.

Topics will include fertility, sexuality, emotional realities, support, and complementary therapies. Presenters include Dr. Karen Gelmon, head of the BC Cancer Agency’s breast tumour group; Kathryn Nicholson, a counsellor at the BC Cancer Agency; Dr. Elaine Drysdale, BC Cancer Agency psychiatrist; and author Marlene A. Schiwy.

Registration and general information about the event is available online at www.theyoungandthebreastless.ca, or call 778-883-5418.

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UBC Students’ Plan Flies With Boeing

Six UBC students recently drafted a winning proposal for the redevelopment of a 47-acre site Boeing Co. owns in Tukwila, Washington.

The students, from the Sauder School of Business and the School of Community and Regional Planning, submitted the winning plan in the first annual Northwest Real Estate Challenge, a competition hosted by the Vancouver, Washington and Oregon chapters of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and sponsored by Boeing Realty Corp.

Real estate majors Steve Bruckall, Evan Campbell, Chris Kay and Cam MacGregor worked with planning students Darren Enns and Peter Russell to suggest the 47-acre site host an air cargo and corporate aircraft servicing centre.

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Faculty Of Education Profs Honoured By Local School District

Shelley Hymel and Kim Schonert-Reichl, UBC professors of education and counselling psychology, were among ten recipients to receive the 2003 Vancouver School Board (VSB) Recognition Award. The award recognizes VSB staff, community members and education partners for outstanding contributions that have made a true difference to the District.

Professors Hymel and Schonert-Reichl were nominated on the basis of their support of the VSB and district initiatives regarding social responsibility and social / emotional learning, originating from the ongoing partnership between Faculty of Education and the Vancouver School Board. They will receive their award at a special recognition event on May 20th at the VSB.

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PhD Student Receives Scholarship For Promoting Engineering To Women

Chemical and biological engineering PhD student Monica Danon-Schaffer is the recipient of the 2004 Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Award from the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF).

The $15,000 scholarship is awarded to a woman enrolled full-time in a graduate engineering program at the doctoral level. It encourages women to pursue careers in engineering and to recognize the valuable contribution that they bring to society through research, teaching and community involvement. The award is based on demonstrated leadership, community involvement and extracurricular activities with special emphasis on those that help attract women to or encourage them to remain in engineering.

More information on the awards is available at www.cemf.ca.