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Mar. 5, 2004

• Researcher Awarded for Work in Occupational Medicine
• UBC’s Arts ISIT Team Slams the Competition
• Graduate Student in Line for Innovation Prize

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Researcher Awarded for Work in Occupational Medicine

Annalee Yassi, director of the Institute of Health Promotion Research, has been awarded the 2004 Knowledge Translation Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the University of Ottawa in collaboration with the Health Charities Council of Canada and the Council for Health Research in Canada.

Yassi, who is the Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Health Research, has more than 20 years' experience in occupational medicine and specializes in the health of health-care workers. She is the principal investigator of a CIHR study that comprises nine projects that examine issues such as how work organization affects health, how best to prevent injuries and chemical exposure, and developing analytical tools for evaluating and addressing health problems of B.C. health-care workers.

Yassi joined UBC in 2001. She will accept her award this month in Ottawa at the Canadian Celebration of Excellence in Health Research event that recognizes Canada's best and brightest health researchers.

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UBC’s Arts ISIT Team Slams the Competition

A six-person team from UBC's ARTS Instructional Support and Information Technology (ISIT) department has won Best Use of New Media award in Vancouver's New Media Slam. The new media arts festival competition, designed to give the local new media community an opportunity to collaborate, create, and publish themselves, was held February 13-15.

Teams were given 48 hours, from 4:00 pm Friday to 4:00 pm on Sunday, to collaborate, author, animate, film, design, code, edit and deliver an original New Media production. The UBC team's winning entry will be featured in this month's Reel to Real Festival.

For more info, visit www.newmediaslam.com.

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Graduate Student in Line for Innovation Prize

UBC graduate student Orcun Goksel has been chosen as one of 10 finalists by the Advanced Systems Institute of BC (ASI) for the 2004 ASI Exchange Innovation Awards. Three winners will be selected at the ASI Exchange 2004 on Tuesday, March 9, where the finalists will be exhibiting their innovations among 200 displays. The competition crossed the barriers of industry and academia and invited young companies and academic researchers to compete.

For more information, visit www.asiexchange.com.