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.

Sep. 7, 2005

• History Professor Wins Top Human Rights Fellowship
• Associate Dean Wins Scientific Achievement Award
• Associate Dean Wins Forestry Achievement Award
• Ken Lum Art Added to Vancouver Neighborhood
• Oct. 3 Lecture on Meanings of Global Citizenship
• UBC Invites Ideas for Memorial to Slain Women
• Quarter Century Club Annual Dinner
• Online Application Competition Seeks Innovative UBC Students

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History Professor Wins Top Human Rights Fellowship

Arthur Ray, a UBC history professor, has received the 2005 Bora Laskin Fellowship to examine Aboriginal land claims.

Granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the 12-month, $55,000 fellowship was established in 1985 to honour the late chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and is awarded annually to a leading Canadian researcher in the field of human rights.

Ray will compare different approaches to land claim settlements in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia over the past 50 years.

For more information, please visit: http://www.sshrc.ca/web/whatsnew/press_releases/2005/bora_laskin_e.asp.

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Associate Dean Wins Scientific Achievement Award

Cindy Prescott, associate dean of research and graduate students at the Faculty of Forestry, received the Canadian Forestry Scientific Achievement Awards this year.

Presented by the Canadian Institute of Forestry, the award recognizes unique and outstanding achievement in forestry research in Canada.

Dean Prescott is a world expert in forest litter decomposition processes, a topic she has studied for over 20 years. Her work and research in the Canadian Inter-Site Decomposition Experiment now underpins the decomposition component of the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector, and has a national impact through reporting procedures for the Kyoto Protocol.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cif-ifc.org/english/e-awards-cfsa-prescott2005.shtml.

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Associate Dean Wins Forestry Achievement Award

Peter Marshall, associate dean of undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Forestry, was recognized with the Canadian Forestry Achievement Award this year.

The award, presented by the Canadian Institute of Forestry, recognizes unique and outstanding achievement in forestry in Canada.

Dean Marshall has made significant contributions to the field of forest measurement, forest sampling and growth and yield. His research has been internationally recognized at numerous conferences.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cif-ifc.org/english/e-awards-cfaa-marshall2005.shtml.

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Ken Lum Art Added to Vancouver Neighbourhood

A new work of public art by Ken Lum, a professor in the department of art history and visual art, has been installed at the corner of Thornton and Malkin Streets in Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood..

Called A Tale of Two Children: A work for Strathcona , the project involves two large photographs of children facing contrasting parental pressures, and is the fourth in a series of public artworks for the City's National Works Yard, base of operations for city engineer crews.

Lum, who grew up in Strathcona, has represented Canada in numerous exhibitions around the world, and has created public art projects in Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Italy and Vancouver.

For more information, please visit: http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/PublicArt/projects.htm#KenLum.

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Oct. 3 Lecture on Meanings of Global Citizenship

Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, will present a lecture on the Meanings of Global Citizenship Oct. 3.

The presentation is part of UBC's Global Citizenship Speakers Series, launched April 2005, to profile the university's global citizenship activities, and provide a forum for discussion of the university's role, responsibilities and plans.

The talk will be held at noon in the Asian Centre Auditorium and is open to all members of the public.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ubcinternational.ubc.ca/global_citizen_forums.htm#Speakers.

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UBC Invites Ideas for Memorial to Slain Women

UBC is requesting ideas for a public memorial site on campus to acknowledge and commemorate the fourteen women murdered at L’Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal on December 6, 1989.

The organizing committee hopes the memorial will reflect on the historical significance of the event to Canadian women’s advancement in Engineering and Science.

Submissions are due on or before November 25, 2005. The target date for completion is set for December 2006.

For more information, please contact: david.grigg@ubc.ca.

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Quarter Century Club Annual Dinner

UBC will recognize 32 faculty members with 25 years or more of service at this year's Quarter Century Club dinner, Oct. 6.

The Quarter Century Club was established in 1996 by President David Strangway to recognize full-time faculty members and librarians with 25 years of service.

New members will receive a diamond pin and a membership card, which confers privileges such as free admission to the UBC Botanical Gardens and a discounted admission to the UBC Aquatic Centre.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ceremonies.ubc.ca/ceremonies/honours/quartercenturyclub/#dinner.

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Online Application Competition Seeks Innovative UBC Students

BCNET is looking to award students who have created unique and innovative online applications that have made a difference in society.

BCNET is a not-for-profit society formed to provide high-speed optical network capabilities to British Columbia's higher education and research institutions.

The winning student will receive a cash prize, and the opportunity to showcase the online application to business, government and academic professionals.

For more information, please visit: http://www.bc.net/news_events_publications/competitions.htm.

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