UBC News Digest

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Feb. 20, 2004

• NorskeCanada Funds UBC's Pulp and Paper Centre Research
• First Annual Green College Conference Addresses Urban Sustainability
• Computer Science Prof. Featured at 13th Annual High Tech Exchange

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NorskeCanada Funds UBC's Pulp and Paper Centre Research

The Faculty of Applied Science's Pulp and Paper Centre is the beneficiary of a new grant program funded by NorskeCanada, B.C.'s largest producer of paper products. The NorskeCanada Grants Program will support research for the advancement and development of pulp and paper engineering. Each $60,000 grant will fund a multi-year project advancing papermaking and engineering technologies specific to processing B.C. coastal fibre into high-value paper products.

Each year, in coordination with NorskeCanada, a committee in the Pulp and Paper Centre will select a research project to receive the three-year grant. NorskeCanada will also provide matching in-kind support. The recipient of the 2003 grant was Professor Peter Englezos, a chemical engineer whose research focuses on papermaking chemistry and technology. He intends to use the funds to support a research initiative involving the optimization of additives for high-value paper products.

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First Annual Green College Conference Addresses Urban Sustainability

The first annual Green College Conference, entitled Metropolis to Exurbia: Sustainability and the Future of our Urban Landscapes, will take place March 19-22. Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Jeb Brugman, president of Globallegacies International, and other national and international speakers, the conference will focus on positive developments and working solutions in Canada, the United Kingdom and United States from civic, academic, and public perspectives. Participants will explore leading edge issues and urban sustainability practices and their application to Vancouver and other Canadian cities through forums on social, economic, environmental, and governance issues.

To learn more, visit http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/tgcconference.

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Computer Science Prof. Featured at 13th Annual High Tech Exchange

UBC associate professor of computer science, Michiel van de Panne, will speak on Character Animation using Physics and the Imagination at the 13th annual ASI Exchange Tuesday, March 9. Organized by the Advanced Systems Institute of BC at the Vancouver Plaza of Nations, the event brings together BC's high tech community to foster collaboration between academic research and industry.

For more information about the ASI Exchange 2004, please visit www.asiexchange.com.