UBC Reports | Vol. 46 | No. 16 | Oct. 19, 2000

'Students the best part,' say veteran faculty members

This fall, 46 new members gain entry into the Quarter Century Club, which honours faculty members for 25 or more years of service at UBC. And amid all the changes on campus over the years, the best part of the day for many of the inductees remains the time spent with their students.
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Physicist, forester earn science prize

Two faculty members and a former graduate student are among the six winners of this year's Science Council of British Columbia's Science and Technology Awards.
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Campaign benefits stay close to home

As you pause to decide whether or not to support UBC's United Way campaign, organizers ask you to consider that locally 600,000 individuals benefit from donations.
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Discovery holds promise for sufferers of arthritis

A collaborative research team that includes a recent UBC graduate and members of the Faculty of Medicine has discovered a gene that predicts the severity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
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Changes in environment may prevent asthma: study

Breast-feeding, controlling dust mites and eliminating second-hand smoke are some of the interventions that may prevent asthma in infants, according to Prof. Moira Chan-Yeung. Yeung is principal investigator in a study recently published with UBC researchers Helen Ward and Alexander Ferguson and two University of Manitoba professors.
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Pedal-powered helicopter readies for maiden flight

Mike Georgallis' passion is helicopters -- human-powered helicopters to be precise. Since 1998, the 37-year-old UBC Mechanical Engineering graduate research assistant has devoted much of his free time to designing and building a helicopter that can achieve flight through humanpower alone.
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