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UBC Reports | Vol. 48 | No. 6 | April 4, 2002

First Nations Foresters Foster New Awareness

For generations, Canada's First Nations people have had little or no say in the future of their ancestral forests. But if UBC's Gordon Prest has his way that will never happen again.
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Desperately Seeking Daycare?

Demand for limited daycare spaces is always high, but especially when those spaces are among the best in the country.
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Finding the Green to Go Green

Freda Pagani is proving every day that you have to burn energy to save energy. As Canada's only director of campus sustainability Pagani is working hard to discover more ways to save UBC millions of dollars in energy costs.
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Uplifting Vision Helps Blind Athlete Excel

As a child, Nancy Carpenter watched in awe as Olympian Vasily Alexyev competed on weightlifting's world stage, and she dreamed of doing the same. At the age of 39, with her sight fading fast, Carpenter refused to let go of that vision.
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A Real Find

There is only one UBC staff member whose job ranges from building latrines and sharpening chainsaws to tracking down ancient cedar baskets.
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Refugee Women Learn to Defend Themselves

Teaching self-defence in a sun-scorched refugee camp is not your typical vacation plan, but that's how UBC technical writer Kirsty Barclay spent her holidays.
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Plant Doctor on Call

A late March snowstorm has blanketed the budding crocuses outside her window in white and sent some Vancouver-area green thumbs into a panic but Judy Newton is quick to provide insight on the unseasonable weather.
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When Everything Old Becomes New Again

As libraries everywhere race to modernize by adopting web-based holdings and wireless Internet portals, what is so important about the UBC library's recent acquisition of a handwritten Anglican Church service book circa 1873?
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The Beat Goes On in Latest UBC Special Collection

He died in 1971, but the loves, life and music of 20th century icon Igor Stravinsky will live on in the UBC library's special collection stacks, thanks to a generous gift.
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UBC's 25 Year Club Welcomes 57 New Members for 2002

Club members - staff who have worked on campus for a quarter-century - will join UBC President Martha Piper at a celebratory dinner on May 14 at the Totem Park Ballroom.
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Athlete of the Year

UBC pitcher Jeff Francis was named the Sport BC University Athlete of the Year at the 36th annual awards gala in Vancouver on March 14.
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Bank Gift Targets Students and Eastside Residents

It had all the usual trappings of a society event. Chamber music played, glasses clinked and shutters clicked as UBC accepted a $1.4 million dollar donation from HSBC Bank Canada at UBC's Robson Square campus.
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Contenders Among the Classics

Three UBC Music professors are nominees in two of Canada's premier music awards.
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