UBC Reports

UBC
August

News Digest . In Memoriam--Peter Larkin . Calendar

Provincial cuts threaten UBC infrastructure

A deep cut in provincial funds earmarked for upgrading and maintaining UBC's buildings will have a major and lasting impact on the campus infrastructure, said UBC President David Strangway.


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Students to benefit from high-tech deal UBC and BC TELECOM have entered into an innovative 10-year relationship that will increase and improve services for post-secondary students and other learners throughout B.C. and beyond.


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Long-awaited journalism program comes to UBC

The University of British Columbia and the Sing Tao Foundation announced the establishment of a new graduate school of journalism at UBC during a ground-breaking ceremony July 24.


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Physics camp keeps kids enthralled

The young physicists run into the classroom and make a bee-line for a canister of liquid nitrogen.


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UBC adopts proposal to close food outlet

After considerable deliberation, including consultation through a broadly based sponsor committee and the review of an extensive business plan, UBC has endorsed proposals to close one of its campus food operations and convert another in 1997.


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Community plan draft gains GVRD, Board approval

A proposed Official Community Plan (OCP) has been approved by the University of British Columbia's Board of Governors and given first and second readings by the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Board of Directors.


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Fiscal year features low debt, balanced budget

UBC's Board of Governors has approved a balanced core operating budget of $341.6 million for 1996-97 as the university enters the new fiscal year with an accumulated operating debt reduced from $651,000 to $122,000 since the start of 1995-96.


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Salcudean named to fluid dynamics chair

The Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation has donated $500,000 to the Faculty of Applied Science for the creation of the Weyerhaeuser Industrial Research Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics.


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