UBC This Week | Apr. 5, 2007

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Recent UBC Media Releases

• Apr. 2: UBC Law Faculty receives $1 million gift from Borden Ladner Gervais and Ladner family
• Apr. 3: Two UBC Faculty Receive Canada’s Top Teaching Award

Upcoming Event Highlights

• Apr. 6: The Guthrie Family Legacy Tour
• Apr. 6-8: UBCLE Taiwanese Film Festival
• Apr. 7: Men's rubgy at Wolfson Field
• Apr. 10: 22nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education

Find out what else is happening at UBC this week. For sports events, visit the UBC Athletics site at www.gothunderbirds.ca/schedule.asp.

UBC People

• UBC Professor wins 3M national teaching award
• UBC students take grand prize
• Students take on designing for disaster

UBC People

UBC Professor wins 3M national teaching award

Faculty of Dentistry's Clinical Prof. Leandra Best is this year's recipient of the 3M ESPE-ACFD National Dentistry Teaching award. The Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry and the Dentistry Canada Fund give this award to a faculty member who has displayed the qualities of an outstanding teacher and shown interest in and enthusiasm for the learning needs of students.

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UBC students take grand prize

Sauder School of Business students Dave Rusli, Sherry Chen, John Young and Yulichia Ong share the $20,000 grand prize of the first Royal Bank of Canada’s Next Great Innovator Challenge. University and college students across Canada were asked to answer the question: “How will today’s teens influence the financial services industry of tomorrow?” Submitted ideas included suggestions around personalizing the banking experience, rewards programs, education, branding and the use of technology.

For more information, visit www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2007/04/c9917.html.

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Students take on designing for disaster

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Forintek, the wood products research institute housed at UBC, present Designing for Disaster – An Expo of Innovative Relief Housing on April 16. Students from Emily Carr and UBC will showcase 400-square foot prefabricated living shelters able to be assembled or disassembled with basic tools. Presentations will be heard from participating students and representatives from Habitat for Humanity Vancouver, Emily Carr and Forintek.

Limited space is still available for participation. For more information, contact Steph Troughton at 604.222.5663 or stephanie@van.forintek.ca.

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