UBC Reports | Vol. 46 | No. 18 | Nov. 16, 2000

UBC secures silver spot in Maclean's rankings

UBC has secured second position in overall rankings of Canada's medical/doctoral universities, according to the annual survey recently published in Maclean's magazine.
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Cellist tunes in to high technology

Ron Rabin has spent the better part of his life playing and studying music, but nowadays the 36-year-old is more in tune with computers than his cello. Rabin will become the first graduate of the Alternate Routes to Computing (ARC) program at UBC this month.
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Fellowships created to honour Michael Smith

The memory of the late Michael Smith will be honoured at UBC with 10 graduate fellowships that will bear his name.
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Trekker, former judge earn awards

A participant in the Great Trek and a former chief justice of B.C.'s Supreme Court have been named recipients of the 2000 Great Trekker Award.
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Everybody into the carpool

HOV envy -- the condition affecting lone drivers as they watch carpoolers zoom along in the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane -- may be a thing of the past for UBC students, faculty and staff thanks to a new UBC TREK program.
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Heppner begins legacy

When the applause dies down at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts tomorrow, it will signal a new beginning as well as the end of a concert by one of the world's finest operatic voices, UBC alumnus Ben Heppner.
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Collection spotlights life of pioneer B.C. missionaries

"Invaluable" is how prominent B.C. historian and Education Prof. Jean Barman describes a collection recently donated to UBC by Vancouver's Hager family.
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Engineering program broadens know-how, builds design skills

What if rather than learning everything there is to know about mechanical or electrical engineering, students could learn something about all areas?
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