"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "2004-09-02"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118171/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\n[UBC\nVOLUME 50 I NUMBER 8 I SEPTEMBER 2,2004\nUBC REPORTS\n2 UBC in the News 3 Michael Smith Legacy 5 Medical Expansion 6 Campus Growth 9 Byers Comes Home\nAIDS in Africa: Up Close and Very Personal\nUBC student gets intense first-hand look at HIV/AIDS epidemic during summer seminar in Malawi. BY ERICA SMISHEK\nIf called upon to write that proverbial\nessay about how she spent her summer vacation, an uncommon one in\nMalawi, Africa, Madeleine Lyons\nwould undoubtedly tell of attending\nfive funerals in 10 days - each death\nattributed to AIDS.\n\"AIDS is beyond a crisis, it's beyond\na pandemic, it's beyond anything we\nhave words for,\" says Lyons. \"There is\ndeath everywhere.\"\nEntering her second year of Arts at\nUBC, the just-turned 19-year-old was\none of 20 undergraduates from across\nCanada who participated in the 57th\nWorld University Service of Canada\n(WUSC) Summer Seminar. The project\npaired students with their Malawian\ncounterparts to carry out research on\n\"I saw things I never thought I'd have to watch. By the end, I couldn't. It violated\nevery single one of my code of ethics. The whole time this was happening to her, as\nthe stones hit her, her face remained blank. She was embarrassed, you could see it\nin her eyes; ashamed of herself, ashamed that I was seeing this.\"\nHIV/AIDS or sustainable agriculture\nand learn about Malawi's strategy for\nmeeting the United Nations'\nMillennium Development Goals in\nthese areas.\nIt was Lyons' first time outside\nCanada, and it offered a profound firsthand look at poverty, racial and gender\ninequality, and the AIDS epidemic.\nShe calls it \"the most unbelievable\neye-opening experience of my life.\"\nLyons was taught to prepare nsima, a traditional Malawian dish made from maize\nflour and water.\nDuring her six-week stay, the\ndelightful and determined Lyons\ninterviewed project leaders from both\ngovernment and non-governmental\norganizations (NGOs) responsible for\nHIV/AIDS initiatives. She visited\nhospitals, clinics and maternal health\ncentres to examine gender and equality\nissues affecting HIV infection as well as\npost-infection health care. And she\nspent 10 days living with a Malawian\nfamily in Dezda, a rural village\ndecimated by the epidemic.\n\"Youth in these villages don't exist\nanymore - AIDS has wiped them out,\"\nsays Lyons, who stayed in a rusty\ntin-roofed hut with a married\n50 something couple, their adult\nmissionary son, and two 18-month-old\ngrandchildren orphaned when their\nAIDS-stricken mother died of a\nsecondary infection a week after their\ncaesarean birth. The couple had also\ntaken in three girls, aged 12, 14 (who\nis eight months pregnant) and 15, all\norphaned by AIDS, as servants.\nLocated in southeastern Africa,\nMalawi's population is estimated at\n11.6 million; the average life expectancy for the total population is 38 years.\nMalawi has one of the highest\nHIV/AIDS infection rates in the world,\nwith conservative estimates pointing to\n15 per cent of the adult population -\none in seven - infected.\n\"There is a lot of pressure to keep it\nquiet within the country,\" Lyons says.\n\"In the cities, you can actually say the\nword 'AIDS.' But in the villages, you\ncan't ask people if they have AIDS.\nYou use the word 'illness' but it\nbecomes pretty apparent what they\nhave when you see shingles, a common\nopportunistic infection, covering their\nfaces and their children dying.\n\"They have no testing in rural\nareas. And in urban areas, nobody\ngoes because nobody wants to know\nthe truth. Without anti-retrovirals, it's\na death sentence.\"\nThe UN Millennium Development\nGoal for HMAIDS is to stop and\nbegin to reverse the number of new\ninfections. The Malawian government\npromotes abstinence as the most\neffective method against the spread\nof HIV, while the church, a powerful\nlobby in the country, refuses to\nsupport the use of condoms.\nUpon her arrival, Lyons was given\nnine condoms to distribute.\n\"Many of our Malawian counterparts made a very obvious point of\nthrowing them away, saying they were\npracticing abstinence,\" she explains.\n\"Later on in the program, however,\nthey would be in bed with their\nboyfriends. It isn't having sex that is\nthe problem, but saying one thing\npublicly and doing another privately\njust exacerbates the disease.\"\nIn Malawi, the average age of a\nperson's first sexual experience is 15.\nOften this experience isn't a choice but\na reality of economic circumstances,\nespecially in rural areas, as young\norphaned girls use transactional sex as\na means of generating income to support themselves and any siblings left\nunder their charge, or cultural tradition. Fisi (\"hyena\" when translated),\nfor example, is a sexual education ritual in which a group of young girls\nwho have had their first menstrual\nperiod or are soon to be married are\n\"initiated\" with intercourse (often\nunprotected) by the same man, a disguised figure who strikes in the dark.\nNot surprisingly, six women for\nevery one man are infected.\nWhile the Malawian government\nrecently received $100 million from\nthe Global AIDS Fund to support an\nanti-retroviral drug program, these\ndrugs are distributed from only one\nhospital in the country and are\ncurrently given only to people in very\nadvanced stages of the disease. Lyons\nsays more money, more drugs and the\ninfrastructure to distribute them are\ndesperately needed.\n\"Anti-retrovirals are almost a\nmiracle drug. They're not a cure; but\nwhen mothers go on them, they can\nactually look after their kids; kids can\nactually go to school instead of\nworking. You stand a chance at\nbreaking the poverty cycle, breaking\nthe hold of this disease.\"\nIn recent news reports, a senior UN\nofficial warned that sub-Saharan Africa\nwill have 20 million HIV/AIDS\norphans by 2010.\n\"There would be groups of 20 or 30\nkids at the side of the road, playing\nwith footballs they had fashioned out\nof plastic bags that had been melted,\"\nshe says of the orphans. \"Or they\nwould be skipping with ropes made\nout of grass. There are so many of\nthem, there is nothing for them to do.\"\nAs in the case of the family with\nwhom Lyons stayed, many female\norphans are taken in as servants and\nwork from dawn to midnight, cooking,\ncleaning, washing, gathering firewood,\ntending to younger children and to\nchickens, goats and cows.\n\"These girls were so badly treated,\nnot by the grandparents, but by the\nother five grandchildren who came to\nvisit. I saw them kicking dust in the\nface of the young girl who was pregnant as she knelt. 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CANADA V6T 1Z1\nEMAIL: public.affairs@ubc.ca\nHighlights of UBC Media Coverage in August 2004. compiled by brian lin\nVirtual Ocean\nUBC researchers have developed a \"new locomotion interface for swimming and floating in\na virtual reality ocean,\" reports\nthe San Jose Mercury News.\nShowcased at a recent computer graphics conference in Los\nAngeles, the innovation involves\nsuspending a \"swimmer\" and\ntracking his movements. A computer-generated animation of the\nswimmer is then projected on a\nscreen.\nThe swimmer wears a virtual\nreality display over his head and\nsees a simulation of the ocean \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwith waves reacting to the movement and refracted sunlight. He\ncan even hear the sounds of water\nslashing and sea birds calling.\nUBC Second Most Cited\nUBC researchers are the second\nmost cited scholars in Canada,\naccording to a ranking of citations in scholarly scientific and\ntechnical journals.\nUBC came in behind the\nUniversity of Loronto with 17\ninvestigators identified as highly\ncited in leading journals such as\nNature and Science.\nUBC placed 19th among\nNorth American public universities in\nthe rankings.\n\"This is a remarkable achievement,\nand illustrates how UBC research is\ncontributing to discovery everywhere,\nsaid UBC VP research Indira\nSamarasekera told the Vancouver Sun\nBalancing Business and Family\nMore and more couples are opting for\nthe flexibility of getting into business\ntogether because of the financial and\nfamily benefits, according to David\nPeter Hudson, pilot of the Thunderbird\nProject, trained three years for the test.\nBentall, chairman of the Business\nFamilies Centre at UBC.\n\"The norm of someone working\nfor a company for their lifetime is\ndisappearing,\" Bentall told The Globe\nand Mail. \"From both the male and\nfemale side, there's a tremendous\ndrive to have more flexibility in their\ncareers.\n\"Those two forces are causing\nmore and more people to say 'Hey\nlet's start something on our own.'\nThunderbird Grounded for Now\nAfter six years of planning, design\nand construction on its human-\npowered helicopter, a team of\nfaculty and students at UBC\ncouldn't get the machine off the\nground at a recent attempt to\nbreak the current world record.\n\"It was a no-go,\" UBC\nengineering department spokesperson Sherry Green told The Globe\nand Mail. \"They had technical\ndifficulties.\"\nMore than 160 students at UBC's\nmechanical engineering department\nhave worked on the Thunderbird\nProject since its inception in 1998,\nbut only six to 12 people, headed by\nteam leader Mike Georgallis, work\non it at any one time.\nRescue Bots Save the Day\nA robot armed with toilet-bowl\nbrushes recently won the UBC\nengineering department's annual\nrobotics contest.\nThe robots, designed as\n\"rescue-bots,\" had to rescue a\nstranded doll at the bottom of a\npretend cliff.\nThe contest is the students' final\nexam for the course.\n\"It counts for marks and\nbragging rights for several years,\"\nphysics professor Andre Marziali told\nThe Vancouver Sun.\nThe robots use sensors and special\nfilters to recognize parts of the course\nand computer programs written by the\nstudents to tell them what to do. No\nremote controls allowed.\nJeff Young, head of UBC's physics\nand astronomy department and one\nof the judges said he hopes the contest\nlets people know that physics can\nbe fun. \"It's not just drudgery and\nhard work.\" \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nPut Another Fiver on the Barbie ...\nUBC United Way Campaign kicks off Sept. 22\nLhe 2004 UBC United Way Campaign kicks off with a\ngreat BBQ later this month on Wednesday, Sept. 22. A\nburger and pop costs only $5 at SUB from 11:30 a.m. -\n1 p.m. and all proceeds go to the United Way of the\nLower Mainland, an umbrella organization that provides funding to a number of community organizations\nsupporting social services across the Lower Mainland.\n\"Come out and join us for the Kick-off BBQ,\" says\nStan Auerbach, a lecturer with the Faculty of Education,\nwho will chair the campaign this year. \"We have some\nsurprises up our sleeves and we guarantee you'll have a\ngood time.\"\nAs in previous years, volunteers were busy in August\nplanning the campaign activities.\nThanks to the generosity of the campus community,\nlast year's campaign exceeded the goal of $500,000 by\n$11,000. \"We want to continue to build on that outstanding success by increasing the awareness of United\nWay throughout the campus,\" says Auerbach.\n\" One way of doing this is increasing the number of\nvolunteers in the campaign. This is a great opportunity\nfor staff, faculty and students to build their leadership,\npublic speaking and event planning skills.\"\nFor more information on the campaign, the kick-off\nevent or how to get involved, contact Liz King, UBC\nUnited Way Campaign Coordinator, at 604-822-8929\n(UBC-UWAY), e-mail united.way@ubc.ca or check out\nthe Web site at www.unitedway.ubc.ca \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nUBC REPORTS\nEditor\nScott Macrae scott.macrae@ubc.ca\nDesign Director\nChris Dahl chris.dahl@ubc.ca\nDesigner\nSharmini Thiagarajah sharmini@exchange.ubc.ca\nContributors\nMichelle Cook michelle.cook@ubc.ca\nBrian Lin brian.lin@ubc.ca\nErica Smishek erica.smishek@ubc.ca\nHilary Thomson hilary.thomson@ubc.ca\nAdvertising\nKim Fisher public.affairs@ubc.ca\nNEXT ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2, 2OO4\nUBC Reports is published monthly by the UBC Public Affairs Office\n310 - 6251 Cecil Green Park Road\nVancouver BC Canada V6T IZI\nUBC Reports welcomes submissions.\nFor upcoming UBC Reports submission guidelines, please see\nwww.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/about. 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A UBC professor of biotechnology, Smith devised a way to re-program\nsegments of DNA, a process called\nsite-directed mutagenesis. The discovery\nearned him the 1993 Nobel Prize in\nChemistry. The colourful glazing - the\nfirst window of its kind in a North\nAmerican building - is a visual highlight\nof the Mchael Smith Laboratories\n(MSL) that will be officially opened\nSept. 24.\n\"Mchael Smith not only made an\nextraordinary contribution to science,\nhe also encouraged young scientists to\nlearn and discover,\" says UBC President\nMartha Piper. \" I can think of no more\nfitting legacy than to have this group of\nstellar scientists brought together in a\nstate-of-the-art facility.\"\nSmith's dream was to create a unique\ninterdisciplinary centre dedicated to\ngenomic research and located at the\nheart of campus. Now, almost two\ndecades later, his vision has been realized\nwith a $30-miHion lab that covers 7,500\nsq. metres adjacent to the UBC\nBookstore.\n\" I remember Mchael had a model\nof the building on his desk when I first\ncame here,\" says microbiologist Brett\nFinlay, UBC Peter Wall Distinguished\nProfessor whom Smith recruited in 1989.\nFinlay is one of 15 principal investigators and approximately 225 people who\nwill work in the three-storey building\nwhen it is at full capacity. Many of the\nresearchers have been associated with\nUBC's Biotechnology Lab which Smith\nfounded in 1987. Scientists in the lab\nhave been recognized with numerous\nnational and international research\nawards.\n\"This is a remarkable group of\nacademic investigators whose research\ndiscoveries have crossed scientific\ndisciplines in extraordinary ways and\nwho represent international leadership in\nbiotechnology,\" says Phil Hieter, MSL\ndirector. \"A distinguishing feature of\nMSL scientists has been consistent\ndevelopment of new technologies to\nanswer important biological questions.\nIt would be no surprise if UBC's next\nNobel Prize came from this lab.\"\nA replica of Smith's Nobel Prize\nmedal and his picture will be featured\nin a special alcove in the ground floor\npublic lobby.\nOther building features include a\nteaching lab directed by David Ng, who\nprovides outreach programs to approximately 2,000 Lower Mainland high\nschool students annually. There is also a\n100-seat lecture theatre that is electronically linked to other UBC teaching sites,\na multipurpose room, and an atrium\noffering common social space for scientists and research staff.\nThe building is the first on campus to\nuse Voice Over IP, a technology that\nallows voice and data to travel on the\nsame infrastructure so that researchers\ncan plug in computers anywhere in the\nbuilding, giving greater mobility between\ninterdisciplinary labs and lowering operating costs. In addition, the building will\nbe part of UBC's high-speed wireless network.\nResearchers have had significant\ninput into the design of their workspace.\nElectrical engineer Robin Turner, who\ndevelops new spectroscopic methods in\nbiotechnology, will be working in a laser\nlab built to his specification.\n\"These labs are highly programmed\nspace with features customized to the\nresearchers' work so that scientists can\nmove in and start work right away,\"\nsays Ron Turner, project manager, who\nwas a childhood friend of one of Smith's\nsons. In those days, he regarded the scientist as \"just some guy in\nBirkenstocks.\"\nMSL researchers, representing five faculties, explore organisms ranging from\nworms and mice to trees.\nThey include neurobiologist Terry\nSnutch whose work may lead to new\ntherapies for migraines, stroke and cardiovascular disorders, and chemical engineer Charles Haynes who looks at the\nbehaviour of biomoleeules and how synthetic surfaces can be tailored for medical\nand industrial application. MSL associate\ndirector Brian Ellis, an expert on genetically engineered food, studies how plants\nadapt to environmental stresses such as\nfungus, insects and temperature\nextremes. Hieter analyzes genes involved\nin cancer and other human diseases.\nThe lower floor of the MSL will\nhouse the UBC Bioinformatics Centre.\nDirected by Francis Ouellette, the\n450-sq. metre-facility will house five\nresearchers and approximately\n70 students, post-doctoral fellows, and\nlab workers when fully operational.\nBioinformatics integrates computers,\nsoftware tools, and databases to address\nbiological questions, particularly in the\nfields of genomics and proteomics.\nThe MSL represents the UBC component of the Centre for Integrated\nGenomics, a collaboration of UBC and\nthe BC Cancer Agency.\nFunding for the MSL has been\nprovided by Canada Foundation for\nInnovation, the B.C. Knowledge\nDevelopment Fund and private donors.\nFor more information on the Mchael\nSmith Laboratories, visit\nwww.biotech.ubc.ca. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nDisaster Course a Hit with Students\nBY MICHELLE COOK\nThe combination of mass destruc\ntion and human drama that has\nmade so many Hollywood disaster\nmovies box office hits, has also\nproven to be a winning formula for\na UBC Science course.\nWith 1,200 students expected to\nenrol this year, the earth and ocean\nsciences first-year course on The\nCatastrophic Earth - Natural\nDisasters is one of UBC's most popular elective courses. You could call\nit an academic blockbuster.\nWhile many courses start off with\nlarge enrolments, then lose students\nafter classes start, enrolment in EOS\n114 usually increases by 100 students in the first few weeks. Talk\nabout rave reviews.\n\"Students like it because we make\ndisasters fun,\" says Prof. Roland\nStull, the course's creator and lead\ninstructor.\n\"We firmly believe that science\ndoesn't have to be boring. We\nbelieve we can teach the science of\ndisasters - the physics, the dynamics\nand those things - yet keep the\nwhole thing exciting.\"\nWith the aid of dramatic film\nfootage, photos, statistics and news\nclips, students are taken on a wild\ntrip through the science of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides,\nstorms, tsunamis, meteor impacts\nand mass extinctions.\nAlthough no longer part of the\ncoursework, in previous years, Stull\neven had students watch Hollywood\ndisaster movies to critique them for\nscientific accuracy. (Just in case you\nwere wondering, The Core gets a\nthumbs down, and The Perfect\nStorm a solid thumbs up.)\nSarah Chan and Samantha Tsang,\nboth 2nd-year Arts students, signed\nup for the summer 2004 session of\nEOS 114 on the recommendation of\na friend who had taken the course.\nThey say they liked it so much\nthey'll pass the recommendation on\nto others - but they're not ready to\njump ship from Arts to Science - yet.\n\"The course was well taught and\nit put a lot of things into perspec-\ncontinued on page 4\n4103 W. 10th Ave.\nVancouver, B.C.\n604-222-4104\ninfo@pointgreyguesthouse.com\nwww.pointgreyguesthouse.com\nGuest Accommodation\nnear UBC\nA Harbourview Retreat\nBed & Breakfast\nAsk about our UBC Discount!\n4675 W. 4th (at Blanca)\nVancouver, B.C.\n604.221.7273\nwwTV.aharbourviewretreat.com\nWest Coast Suites\nat The University of British Columbia\nHere is the perfect alternative for a stay in Vancouver. 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As an\nassociate professor of aboriginal\nforestry he will participate in\ndeveloping the faculty's\nAboriginal Forestry Program.\n\"This is an exciting academic\nfocus for the faculty,\" says dean\nJack Saddler.\nAnd a prudent one. Prior to\n1994, only three Aboriginal students were known to have graduated from the faculty. Since then,\n22 have completed their studies,\nincluding some at the master's\nand PhD level.\n\"There is an urgent need to\nincrease the role of Aboriginal\npeople in managing and caring for\nthe land,\" says Trosper. \"Recent\ncourt decisions are indicating that\nhuge changes are in store in\nAboriginal participation in\nforestry, yet there are still many\nbarriers to Aboriginal students\nwho wish to pursue post-secondary education.\"\nOne of Trosper's main goals\nwill be increasing university-level\nresearch with First Nations communities, without losing sight of\nproper research protocols that\nrespect traditional culture and\npractical needs.\n\"There is a long history of dispossession in how the industry\nand researchers have worked with\nAboriginal people,\" says Trosper.\n\" It's important to realize that First\nNations people don't reject\nadvances in technology and science - in fact, they embrace them\n- but there's a very different way\nin which they see the world.\n\"The forest is surrounded in a\nsocial context, and to Aboriginal\npeople, it's obvious that living in,\nmodifying and taking care of the\nforest are one and the same. You\ncan't manage the forest without\ngetting to know the people.\"\nTrosper has hit the ground running since he arrived in Vancouver\nin July. He and Saddler have\nalready travelled up to Haida\nGwaii off B.C.'s northwest coast\nto meet with community leaders,\ngovernment officials and industry\nrepresentatives.\nWhen asked what attracted him\nto UBC, he pointed to the strong\ngraduate program at the faculty.\nHe wants to see more Aboriginal\npeople pursue advanced degrees so\nthere is a \"permanent presence\"\nof Aboriginal people in academia.\n\"There is great potential for\nUBC to be a leader in Aboriginal\nforestry education,\" he says. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nI\nProf. Ron Trosper will help develop the Aboriginal Forestry Program at UBC.\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF ^M-5 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nFACULTY OF MEDICINE\nSchool of Rehabilitation Sciences, Director\nThe Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, invites applications and nominations for the\nposition of Director of the School of Rehabilitation Sciences.\nThe individual selected should have doctoral level qualifications or equivalent and a strong background\nin Occupational Therapy or Physical Therapy. He or she should also be familiar with the nature of practice\nin Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, teaching and administrative experience and an academic\nreputation commensurate with a leadership role in the School. The individual selected will be expected to\nhave a clear commitment to a framework for education and research that emphasizes the relationships\namong disciplines and between research and clinical practice.\nAs of 2004, the School offers two-year master's programs in Occupational Therapy and in Physical\ntherapy and advanced graduate programs in rehabilitation (MSc, PhD, and MRSc, an on-line master's\ndegree). The School has strong interprofessional links with other departments in the University and\nwith both practice communities.\nThis is a full-time tenured position which is subject to final budgetary approval. Academic rank and salary\nis commensurate with qualifications and experience. The anticipated start date is January 1, 2005.\nUBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified\npersons to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.\nLetters of application accompanied by a curriculum vitae, three recent publications and the names\nof three referees should be submitted by September 30, 2004, and directed to:\nDr. Gavin C.E. Stuart, MD\nDean, Faculty of Medicine\nRoom 317, Instructional Resources Centre\nUniversity of British Columbia\n2194 Health Sciences Mall\nVancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z3\nDisaster Course a Hit with Students\ncontinued from page 3\ntive,\" Chan says. \"In the media,\nyou're told the wrong things about\ndisasters. It's very stereotyped. In\nthis course, you learn the truth.\"\nChan and Tsang also say they'll\nnever watch Hollywood disaster\nmovies in quite the same way again.\n\"It's a lot of fantasy,\" Tsang says.\n\"But now we can be critical of it\non the basis of scientific information, \" Chan adds.\nBut didn't all that talk of mass\ndestruction leave them feeling a little paranoid?\n\"Yeah, living in Richmond, a little bit,\" Chan laughs. \"If there's an\nearthquake, we're going to be the\nfirst to go.\"\nLaunched four years ago, EOS\n114 is taught by a \"dream team\" of\nseven specialists in specific disasters\nwho've all had first-hand experience\nin the field. Stull, for example, is a\nweather expert who used to chase\nstorms in Oklahoma when he was a\nuniversity student.\nThe instructors are supported by\nan army of TAs who also staff an\nEarth Course Assistance Centre during the term to give students one-\non-one help.\nThe goal of the course is to teach\nstudents how and when natural disasters occur, how to recognize them,\nhow to identify hazards, the science\nbehind them, and what students can\ndo to ensure their own safety and\nplan their lives. Things \"like where\nthey might and might not want to\nbuy a house, like probably not\nalong the shoreline of Florida\nbecause a hurricane or storm surge\nwill wipe it out,\" Stull says.\nDespite his obvious enthusiasm\nfor the course, Stull says it's not\nmeant to make light of the often\ndevastating natural occurrences that\nhappen around the globe on a daily\nbasis.\n\" I tell the students every day that\nour business is to help save lives\nand reduce economic losses,\" Stull\nexplains. \"Even so, this is our field\nof study and we're excited about it,\nso we teach it with the same excitement, but I let people know we're\nnot insensitive.\n\" I think the students feel that.\nThey can tell that when there's a\nreally good storm or earthquake,\nwe get excited about it.\"\nOriginally conceived as a way to\nincrease enrolment in the department, the course is also designed to\nadvertise related courses in the\nfield, and encourage undeclared students to consider earth and ocean\nsciences as a major.\nThe approach has been so successful that it's even spawned a\nspin-off. Dinosaur's Earth (EOS\n116) was launched last year after\nstudents raved about the segment of\nEOS 114 on mass extinction.\nThe popularity of EOS 114\ndoesn't surprise Stull.\n\"Everyone is interested in disasters, \" he says. But, he adds, if students learn one thing from the\ncourse, it should be that science is\nfun - and they should choose where\nthey live very, very carefully. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 REPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2OO4 | 5\nUniversity of Victoria will be Home for\nWidely Travelled Student\nFew Canadian Teenagers were Witness to the Horrors of Rwanda's 1994 Bloody Civil War\nBY HILARY THOMSON\nVisiting Rwanda inspired Michelle Tousignant to pursue medicine.\nUBC medical student Michelle\nTousignant, 14 years old at the\ntime, was there visiting her father\nwho was part of the United\nNations Assistance Mission. She\nsays watching the Red Cross in\naction during the conflict strongly influenced her decision to\nbecome a doctor.\nThe 24-year old has just started her first year of UBC's medical\nundergraduate program, one of\n24 students admitted to the\nIsland Medical Program (IMP) -\npart of the Faculty of Medicine's\nexpanded medical education program (see sidebar).\n\"I have always had a strong\npull towards health and healing,\"\nsays the well-travelled\nTousignant, who says she grew\nup as a \"military brat.\"\n\" I was truly inspired by what\nI saw - it was a big driving force\nfor me,\" she says.\nAfter high-school graduation\nin Belgium, she traveled to\nHonduras to work in rural\nhealth clinics and hospitals and\n\"loved it.\"\nA kinesiology grad from\nUniversity of Victoria, Tousignant\nwas attracted to the IMP because\nshe felt she had roots - for the\nfirst time in her life - on\nVancouver Island and because she\nwould be learning with a small\ngroup of students, an experience\nshe had enjoyed as an undergrad.\nStudents in the IMP and the\nNorthern Medical Program are\nrated on a rural suitability index\nas part of the admissions process.\nTousignant's interest in rural\nareas has much to do with her\nlove of outdoor activities, especially skiing and snowboarding.\n\"I'm going into medicine with a\nreally open mind in terms of\nwhere I'll end up,\" she says. \"I'm\nlooking at smaller communities\nclose to ski hills, but who knows,\nI may change my mind more than\nonce in the course of my studies.\"\nAs an IMP student, she will\nspend the first four months of\nmedical school at UBC's\nVancouver campus before moving\nback to the Island as part of the\nIMP's first class. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nPeter Wall Institute\nfor Advanced Studies\nExploratory Workshop Grant\nThe Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop Program awards\n$15,000 to $25,000 to interdisciplinary teams of UBC\nresearchers to create new research initiatives by bringing\noutstanding international experts to the Universiry. Your\nproposal should be broadly interdisciplinary and involve\nbasic research. The application deadline for the Fall 2004\ncompetition is October 1, 2004.\nFor more information, please visit our website at nnvn>.pwias. ubc. ca\nor callus at (604) 822-4782.\nFaculty of Medicine\nExpansion: The Facts\nIn March 2002, the provincial\ngovernment announced its\nplan to ease B.C.'s doctor\nshortage by almost doubling\nthe number of medical school\nstudents to 224 in 2005.\nCurently B.C. has the lowest per capita ratio of places\nin medical school to population in any Canadian province\nor territory.\nThis year, UBC's Faculty of\nMedicine launches a system of\ndistributed medical education\nwith UBC students taught at\nthree new facilities: the\nUniversity of Northern British\nColumbia's (UNBC) Northern\nHealth Sciences Centre;\nUniversity of Victoria's (UVic)\nMedical Sciences Building and\nUBC's Life Sciences Centre\n(LSC). The facilities represent\na provincial government capital commitment totalling $134\nmillion, which includes $ 110\nmillion for the UBC portion.\nIn the 2004-05 academic\nyear, 200 students will be\nadmitted to the Faculty of\nMedicine, with 152 students\nadmitted to the Vancouver-\nFraser Medical Program on\nUBC campus; 24 students to\nthe Northern Medical\nProgram (NMP) at UNBC\nand 24 to the Island Medical\nProgram (IMP) at UVic.\nStudents in the NMP and\nthe IMP will spend the first\nfour months of the MD\nundergraduate program in\nVancouver and the remainder\nof the first two years in the\nnorth or on Vancouver Island.\nIn the third and fourth years\nof the program, students will\nhave a range of experiences in\nthe north and on Vancouver\nIsland and will also have\nopportunities through UBC's\nnetwork of 96 affiliated teaching hospitals and health facilities throughout B.C.\nAll three new facilities have\nIT infrastructure that is linked\nwith BCNet's high speed\nbroad band network to support the distributed e-learning\nmodel. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\n\u00C2\u00A3Z\u00E2\u0080\u0094r\n8F*\nWriting Centre\nOffering non-credit courses and services to the\nuniversity community and the general public\nAcademic Development Courses\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Preparation for University Writing and the LPI\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Advanced Composition\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Getting Ahead with Grammar\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Writing for Graduate Students\nProfessional Development Courses\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Report and Business Writing\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Freelance Article Writing\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Non-Fiction Book Writing\nPersonal and Creative Writing\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Journal Writing: A Voice of One's Own\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Short Fiction Workshop\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Editing and Rewriting Fiction\nContinuing Studies\n604-822-9564\nwww.writingcentre.ubc.ca\nWriting Centre\nOffering non-credit courses and services to the\nuniversity community and the general public\nReport and Business Writing\nSept 13-Dec 6\nTutoring Techniques\nSept 23-Oct 28\nScientific Writing\nOct 21-Dec 2\nWriting for Graduate Students\nOct 26-Nov 30\nUBC Students\nWork study positions are available at the UBC Writing\nCentre. For information, call 604-822-1986.\nApplication deadline: Sept 15.\nContinuing Studies\n604-822-9564\nwww.writingcentre.ubc.ca\nFRENCH\nSPANISH\nITALIAN\nGERMAN\nJAPANESE\nMANDARIN\nPORTUGUESE\nPUNJABI\nSWEDISH\nRUSSIAN\nLanguages\nCultures & Travel\nNon-credit day, evening or Saturday\nmorning conversational classes start\nSeptember 16\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Courses on Understanding Wine\nand Culinary Arts\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Travel immersion programs to\nFrance, Italy, Mexico and Cuba\n604-822-0800\nLanguages, Cultures & Travel\nUBC Continuing Studies\nwww.languages.ubc.ca\nWalk-In Clinic\n604-222-CARE (2273)\n\u00C2\u00A9\nUniversity Village Medical/Dental Clinic\nWalk-ins and Appointments n Extended Hours\nwww.universirvvilla2eclinic.con1\nConveniently located in the UBC Village above Staples\n#228-2155 Allison Road. Vancouver, BC V6T 1T5 6\nREPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2 O O 4\nConstruction is booming at UBC with more than $600\nmillion in institutional and housing projects underway.\nProjects range from student housing to galleries and\nresearch centres as well as town homes and condominiums\nin four of the eight campus neighbourhoods that comprise\nUBC's residentially oriented University Town.\nApproximately 80 per cent of construction is for\nacademic purposes with major funding from the Canada\nFoundation for Innovation, B.C. Knowledge Development\nFund and the provincial government's Double the\nOpportunity Fund that supports a plan to double the\nnumber of students graduating each year in computing\nscience and engineering.\nHere is a sampling of some current construction and\ndesign projects:\n1. The UBC Life Sciences Centre is a fast tracked\nconstruction program that will provide more than 40,000\nsq. metres of interdisciplinary research and education\nfacilities and help UBC's Faculty of Medicine reach its\ngoal of almost doubling the number of graduating\nmedical students by 2010.\nScheduled completion: August 2004-May 2005\nCapital budget: $109 million\n\u00C2\u00A3,. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will retain the\nheritage core of the Main Library, add approximately\n18,000 sq. metres of new building and more than 4,000\nsq. metres of renovated floor space. The centre - fully\nequipped to support wireless technology - will offer a\nstate-of-the-art storage and retrieval system.\nScheduled completion: May 2005 (Phase 1)\nNovember 2006 (Phase 2)\nCapital budget: $68 million\nO. The Michael Smith Laboratories and UBC\nBioinformatics Centre is a 7,675-sq.- metre, four-storey\nleading edge laboratory that will help UBC continue its\nnational leadership in the field of genomics. The building\nname honours the memory of the late Michael Smith, UBC\nprofessor, 1993 Nobel laureate and founder of UBC's\nBiotechnology Lab.\nScheduled completion: September 2004\nCapital budget: $30 million\n4. The Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory is a\n5,752-sq.-metre four-storey facility that will bring three\nexisting research units under one roof: the UBC Fisheries\nCentre, The Institute for Resources, Environment and\nSustainability and the B.C. Fisheries Research Unit.\nScheduled completion: June 2005\nCapital budget: $15 million\nD. The Multi-user Facility for Functional Proteomics will\nbe attached to the existing Biomedical Research Centre.\nThis new facility will provide space for a cluster of three\nmulti-user facilities including the UBC Fluorescence\nActivated Cell Sorting Facility and a mass spectrometer.\nScheduled completion: December 2004\nCapital budget: $7 million\n0. The Institute for Computing, Information and\nCognitive Systems/Computer Science is a fast tracked proj\nect designed to strengthen and create new interdisciplinary\nresearch links among computer science, electrical, computer and mechanical engineering, medicine and health care,\neducational technology, psychology, commerce, process\nindustries and utility systems. The facilities will be directiy\nconnected to the existing Centre for Integrated Computer\nSystems Research building.\nScheduled completion: December 2004\nCapital budget: $40 million\nCranes Flying for Academic / Re\n/. The Fred Kaiser Building, formerly the Electrical and\nComputer Engineering Building, is an 8,900-sq.-metre\nfacility that will house the Faculty of Applied Science's\nElectrical and Computer Engineering departments. The\nsite, between Main Mall and an inner courtyard framed by\nthe existing MacLeod and Civil Engineering/Mechanical\nEngineering buildings, will link Main Mall and the Cheez\nFactory through an interior atrium, which will also serve\nas the new main entry for the Engineering precinct.\nScheduled completion: February 2005\nCapital budget: $26 million\nThe Chemical and Biological Engineering Building\nsupports the provincial government initiative to double\nthe number of graduates in Engineering and Science. The\n11, 500-sq.-metre building provides a replacement facility\nfor the Chemistry and Biological Engineering Department\nand a new facility for the Clean Energy Research Centre.\nScheduled completion: September 2005\nCapital budget: $38 million\nTIMEPIECE 1 925\na. r;| |> [E ,: k,s} -,- i;|i7\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - ~r^- . -ri--,Tn FT\". \t\ntl\"\ni i: ii! - ffl ,;\nin .;\n.i^iatij^-:^\"'\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 ^m^mm^^^^ i?: ^S ^^^w^m-^m^Z\nSemi-permanent buildings (left to right, Agriculture, Arts, Auditorium, Administration) under construction.\nDogged by financial constraints in 1925, nine buildings, all of wood-frame and stucco construction were classed as\n\"semi-permanent\" and designed to last 25 to 40 years \"if necessary.\" (As of 1996, most were still in use). \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\n- REPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2OO4 | 7\n>sidential Growth Spurt\nBY HILARY THOMSON\nC/. The new five-storey $17 million Dentistry Building\nwill serve as a gateway to the University Boulevard\nNeighbourhood, part of University Town. The approximately 11,000-sq.metre building includes above- and\nbelow-ground parking, ground floor retail space, a new\nstate-of-the-art dentistry clinic on the second floor and\nadditional university office space.\nScheduled completion: September 2005\n1 U. Almost 2,000 units of student housing will be available with the construction of Marine Residences, a six-\nbuilding complex. The UBC Properties Trust development\nincludes retail space and a one-storey Commons Block\nbuilding with a reception area, ballroom, fireside lounge,\nexercise room and other amenities. Phase 1 is currently\nunderway and includes 600 beds.\nCapital budget: $138 million\nScheduled completion date: Phase 1- August 2005\n1 1. Residential housing includes a variety of condominiums and town homes located in the Hawthorn Place\nneighbourhood in the mid-campus area. Promontory,\ndeveloped by Polygon, is an 18-storey tower that will be\nthe most westerly high-rise in Vancouver. Reflections and\nJourney, two developments by Adera, comprise almost 160\ncondominium units in the same neighbourhood.\nIn addition, developer Ledingham McAllister is creating\nWestchester and Somerset, a group of 40 town homes in\nthe heart of Hawthorn Place.\n1 \u00C2\u00A3,. At Chancellor Place, Intracorp is developing more\nthan 170 apartments, condominiums and town homes,\nincluding Chancellor House and Argyll House.\nUBC Properties Trust, together with Polygon Homes\nInc., initiated the relocation of fraternities from their existing leased land sites onto the UBC Campus at 2280\nWesbrook. The relocation provides seven new fraternity\nhouses with accommodation for approximately 240 students.\nUBC Properties Trust plans and oversees the construction of large institutional buildings on campus. For more\ninformation on these facilities, visit\nwww.ubcproperties.com. Information on housing sites\ncan be obtained through the commercial development\ncompanies responsible for construction. Information on\nUniversity Town can be found at\nwww.universitytown.ubc.ca. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\n(with files from UBC Properties Trust)\nThe Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems.\nCo-Development Helps Campus\nCommunity Build a Sustainable Future\nThe brainchild of UBC Properties\nTrust, the innovative approach\nstems from UBC housing policy,\nwhich makes leased university land\navailable to qualified employees\nwhen they come together in groups\nof at least ten owners. Faculty and\nstaff co-developers can realize savings, depending on market conditions, as high as 30 per cent through\nthe elimination of typical project\nmanagement and marketing costs.\nLogan Lane homes, scheduled for\ncompletion in June 2005, start at\n$356,200 for a 2-bedroom\ngarden home.\nCo-development housing initia\ntives are a key sustainability strategy\nin UBC's University Town plan,\nwhose goal is for 50 per cent of new\nresidential market and non-market\nhousing to serve faculty, staff and\nstudents.\nFor Judith Hall, professor of\npediatrics and medical genetics, the\nchance to live within walking\ndistance of work and diverse cultural, social and recreational venues -\nin UBC's extraordinary natural setting - was too good to pass up. She\nis one of 10 faculty and staff who\ndeveloped Hawthorne Green, the\nfirst co-development housing project\nof 10 homes, which were completed\nlast month.\n\"For me working on campus has\nbeen a lifelong pursuit. This\nco-development gave me the chance\nto be part of what I consider to be\na great experiment in building\ncommunity,\" said Hall.\nFaculty and staff interested in\nhearing more about joining or\nstarting a co-development group\nare invited to contact UBC\nProperties Trust.\nPlease e-mail: jhindle@ubcproper-\nties.com or call 604-731-3103.\nFor more information on\nUniversity Town please visit\nwww.universitytown.ubc.ca \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nThe UBC Life Sciences Centre.\nkudos\nThe winning hand that feeds UBC. UBC Food Services achieved the\nculinary equivalent of a hat trick during the summer, winning three food\nindustry awards.\nDuring its annual conference, the Canadian College and University Food\nService Association (CCUFSA) presented UBC with the association's Shine\nAward for excellence in teamwork, food service, and hospitality.\nThe conference also marked the first time UBC Food Services entered a\nteam in the annual CCUFSA Culinary Challenge - and took first place. In the\ngruelling two-day competition against three other schools (SFU, Northwest\nCommunity College and Brigham Young University), the UBC team of Steven\nGolob (residence chef at Vanier s), Rob Van Raes (Sage Bistro), and Chris\nSingleton (Sage Bistro) produced an internationally themed three-course meal\nand provided nutritional information for their menu.\nDishes they prepared included vanilla and black pepper marinated prawns\nand scallops paired with quinoa salad, pea sprouts, fresh roti and mango salsa;\nahi and wild salmon served with grilled purple yam tiles with a sake\nwatermelon butter reduction; and blackberry honey-glazed barbequed peach\nwith brandy mascarpone cheese and maple syrup liquor sauce.\nAdding to Food Services' list of summer successes, executive chef Piyush\nSahay brought home a silver medal from a North America-wide culinary\ncompetition, held at the University of Massachusetts. The competition focused\non Spanish, Thai and Indian cuisine. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 I UBC REPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2OO4\nXNIH1 O0D\nMtVft\n>INIH10\nMNIHlEXOTfC \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 >INIH1\nNNIH1\nNtW\nIDNE5S\nat\nUBC FOOD SERVICES\nNOW OPEN\ninside Pacific Spirit Place at the S*U*B*\nAdditional Dining Selections\nat Pacific Spirit Place\nRetii- A Culinary Experience from India,\nSimply Pasta - Made-to-Order Pasta, Koya Japan - Japanese Stir Fry,\nManchuWok - Good 6* Fast Chinese Food, Subway - Always Fresh Sandwiches\n& Piua Pixza - Hot & Fresh Personal Pizza\nAward Winning Residence Dining\n% UBCFOODSERVICES\nEvening Dining oh Campus.*.\nvisitors, facuCty & staff weMcome!\nCome & Experience Award Winning Dining\n. Fresh Stirfry at Ginger Pot. Made-to-order Panini at Stackables .\nJuicy Steak Burger at the Red Cedar Grill\n. Gourmet Pizza at Fusions &\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n. Traditional Homestyle Entrees at Stone Hearth\n7 days a week\nTotem cV Vanier Dining Rooms\nHOURS OF OPERATION:\n7:15am-7:30pm M-Th\n7:15am - 7:00pm F\n8:00am - 7:00pm wkd/holiday\nFind out more about Campus Dining @ www+foodserv+ubcxa\nUBC CATERING\nl Orctic,triiiHug Eoter\nAllow us to help plan your day to the finest details.\nPrestigious, affordable and effortless.\nlertng 604-822-301 a 2071 West Mall, Vnncouvet BC wmvut>cc\u00C2\u00ABti?rtng.i.r . C REPORTS\nSEPTEMBER 2, 2OO4 | 9\nThe Return ofthe Native\nAfter more than a decade abroad, international law expert\nMichael Byers has come home to western Canada. But will\nthe new academic director of the Liu Institute for Global\nIssues see the world differently now that he's far from the\ncentres of political power? BY MICHELLE COOK\nMichael Byers knows that any story\nwritten about him is likely to start off\nlike this: he left Canada more than a\ndecade ago to pursue an academic\ncareer in international law and global\npolitics, first in England at Cambridge\nand then Oxford, followed by a five-\nyear stint at Duke University in\nDurham, North Carolina where he\nheaded up the university's highly regarded Center for Canadian Studies. During\nthat time, he gained an international\nreputation for his contributions to public and foreign policy debates and issues\nsuch as human rights and arms control.\n\"Anna Maria Tremonti at the\nCBC called me a poster boy for the\nCanadian brain drain,\" Byers laughs.\n\"But Canada has always been home.\nI've been living out of the country for\nthe last 12 years but I felt a strong\npull back.\"\nThat pull, in large part, was the\npromise of a new era for Canada on\nthe world stage.\n\"Canada is uniquely placed as a role\nmodel for the rest of the world as to\nwhat is possible in terms of a multicultural, multi-ethnic social welfare state\nthat can co-operate with other countries\nin a constructive, multilateral way,\"\nsays Byers.\nObserving the post-9/11 world and\nCanada's role in it from south of the\nborder has been professionally exciting\nbut personally difficult for Byers. Part of\nhis reason for moving to Vancouver is\nthe feeling that he can best help Canada\nrespond to emerging global issues from\nhome.\nJudging from his first few weeks at\nUBC, Byers, 38, hasn't been content to\nslip quietly back across the 49th parallel.\nSince arriving in Vancouver earlier\nthis summer with his wife, two young\nsons and a new Canada Research Chair\nin global politics and international law,\nhe has written for the Globe and Mail,\nappeared on CTV's Canada AM and\ngiven numerous interviews. In his low-\nkey but highly persuasive style, he's been\nraising issues such as the effects climate\nchange could have on Canada's bilateral\nwater treaty with the U.S. and on shipping activity in the Northwest Passage.\nWatching him at work in his shady\noffice at the Liu Centre, dressed casually\nin dark khakis and comfortably worn\ngolf shirt, Byers looks and sounds very\nmuch like Mr. West Coast. He's already\ndone the Grouse Grind, he'd love to\nspend more time on the beach with his\nlaptop writing, and he and his wife\nrecentiy bought a Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid car that they \"hope will send\na tiny signal to car manufacturers that\ntimes have changed.\" He has just\nreturned from a five-week writing\nretreat and is keen to talk about his\nmove to Vancouver.\nBefore he can do that, Byers excuses\nhimself to take a call from a national\nnewspaper reporter in Toronto. He slips\neasily and eloquently into a conversation on missile defence. He laughs often\nand even playfully scolds his caller for\nfailing to read an article he'd penned on\nthe issue a few weeks earlier for the\nreporter's paper.\nByers knows the media game. You\nMichael Byers, new Canada Research Chair in global politics and international law.\ngive interviews - even two-minute ones\nat 5 a.m. in the morning - you make\ngood contacts, you write editorial pieces\nwith a fresh and informed perspective\nthat hasn't been heard before, and you\nuse your expertise to tell stories journalists can't.\nByers does it because he wants media\nto know he's here at UBC and available\nto talk. He sees it as an integral part of\nhis role as a public intellectual who contributes \"in a meaningful way to long-\nterm thinking\" by identifying the issues\nthat are going to be big a few years\ndown the road and providing possible\nanswers.\nThe public outreach work also complements Byers' goal of shaping the Liu\nInstitute into a powerful intellectual\nthink tank like the Brookings Institution\n[the renowned, oft-cited think tank in\nSouth Campus\n[Dbc)\n40&1\nSouth Campus Draft Neighbourhood Plan\n& University Town Consultation\nThe South Campus Neighbourhood is located south of 16th Avenue bounded by Pacific Spirit\nRegional Park and SW Marine Drive.\nUBC, in consultation with the South Campus Plan Working Group and a Consultant Team, has\nprepared a draft neighbourhood plan for a portion ofthe South Campus area.The South Campus\nPlan Working Group engaged UBC stakeholders and adjacent community groups directly in the\nSouth Campus Neighbourhood plan making process.\nPLEASE JOIN US\nAttend the following Open Houses and Campus and Community Public Meeting and give us your\nfeedback.\nPUBLIC MEETING\nMonday, September 13 @ 7:00 pm in the Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall.\nParking is available in the adjacent Fraser Parkade.\nSPECIAL MEETINGS\nYour group can request a special meeting between August 16 and September 17 by contacting\nthe University Town Inquiry Line at 604.822.6400 or by e-mailing info.universitytown@ubc.ca.\nOPEN HOUSES\nTuesday August 24\nTuesday August 24 4 pm to 7 pm Asian Centre complete\nTuesday September 7 10 am to 4 pm SUB Plaza*\nWednesday September 8 10 am to 8 pm SUB Plaza *\nThursday September 9 10 am to 4 pm SUB Plaza*\nMonday September 13 4 pm to 7 pm Asian Centre\n* From September 7-9 visit our TENT beside the Goddess of Democracy. In addition to the\nSouth Campus Draft Plan, there will also be information about University Town.\nDIRECTIONS\nAsian Centre -1871 West Mall; Student Union Building (SUB) - 6138 Student Union Boulevard\nSee www.maps.ubc.ca or call 604.822.6400 for more information.\nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:\nLinda Moore, Associate Director\nExternal Affairs, University Town\nTel: 604.822.6400 Fax: 604.822.8102\nEmail: info.universitvtown@ubc.ca\nUNIVERSITY TOWN\nwww.universitytown.ubc.ca\nWashington, D.C] and, in the process,\nput UBC on the world map as a hugely\ninfluential public policy university.\n\"That's how I see the Liu Institute. I\nwould want it to be at the forefront of\nall the major foreign policy debates in\nCanada in the future as well as some of\nthe truly global debates regardless of\nwhether they involve Canada in any\nsubstantial way.\"\nByers grew up in Ottawa speaking\nEnglish and German (his mother was a\nfirst-generation immigrant) but his passion for international law and global\npolitics was nurtured in the unlikely\nlocale of rural Saskatchewan. As he\nexplains it, the summers he spent on\nhis grandparents' farm as a boy were\na valuable prerequisite for his future\nstudies.\n\"Anyone who spent a lot of time on\na farm in southern Saskatchewan during the 1970s and early '80s knew that\nthere was a world out there, partly\nbecause Canadian farmers are acutely\nsensitive to the importance of international trade,\" Byers explains.\n\"And I also have childhood memories of watching B-52 bombers fly overhead from U.S. bases on the circuit up\nto the Arctic in case war broke out. If\nyou think about it, Canada was right\nsmack in the middle of the Cold War,\nwith the U.S. on one side and the Soviet\nUnion on the other, and Stoughton,\nSaskatchewan was in the centre of\nthat.\"\nAfter finishing high school, Byers\nreceived his BA from the University of\nSaskatchewan in 1988, both his LLB\nand BCL from McGill University in\n1992, and his PhD from Cambridge\nUniversity (Queens' College) in 1996.\nFor the next three years, he was a\nresearch fellow at Jesus College, Oxford\n(where he met wife Katharine) as well\nas a visiting fellow at the Max Planck\nInstitute for Comparative Public Law\nand International Law in Germany.\nIn 1999, he joined the faculty of\nDuke's law school. While he was there,\nByers invited Lloyd Axworthy, then\nCEO ofthe Liu Institute, to lecture.\nTTiey quickly realized they had common\nacademic interests and Axworthy invited Byers to Vancouver. With the link to\nUBC established, Byers spent a month\non campus in April 2003 and arrived\npermanently in July.\nLike many who return home after a\nlong absence, Byers has great expectations for his native land.\nHe thinks Canadians have the potential to significantly influence future global debates because we're well respected\nworldwide, we're multilingual, we're\nvery close to U.S. but we're not the U.S.\nand we've maintained a degree of independence in international affairs. Above\nall, he adds, we're incredibly wealthy -\nnot in raw dollars but in terms of our\nnatural and intellectual resources.\nBut will working on the West Coast\naffect his access to the key decision makers, power brokers, academics and journalists he worked with in Washington,\nLondon and Ottawa?\n\"For the first time in decades, B.C.\nhas become politically significant in federal politics - every student and staff\nmember here at UBC is now politically\nsignificant. Ottawa is paying attention to\nus and that's a huge opportunity to exercise influence, not just in voting but also\nin terms of demanding action on issues,\"\nByers says, adding that he will still have\na few geographic adjustments to make.\n\"I have to keep East Coast hours to\nbe here when journalists in Washington,\nNew York, Toronto and Ottawa start\nworking on their stories. I have to be\nhere and they have to know I'm here.\nAnd I have to be here before people in\nEurope go home at night.\n\"But the other exciting dimension is\nI'm now in the Asia Pacific, a part of the\nworld that I don't know very well -\nyet.\"\nRight now, in the waning days of\nsummer before students return to campus and classes start, writing is what\nByers is thinking about most. You can\nsee he's passionate about it. The topic\nhas come up several times in the conversation. He's a regular contributor to the\nLondon Review of Books and newspaper op/ed pages, and he thinks\nVancouver is the perfect place to do\nwhat he loves best.\n\"To be honest, I'm looking forward\nto spending a lot of time writing with\nthe rain falling outside. There are a lot of\nthings I want to write and a lot of things\nI want to say,\" Byers says. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nAIDS in Africa\ncontinued from page 1\nhave to watch. By the end, I couldn't.\nIt violated every single one of my code\nof ethics. The whole time this was\nhappening to her, as the stones hit her,\nher face remained blank. She was\nembarrassed, you could see it in her\neyes; ashamed of herself, ashamed\nthat I was seeing this.\"\nLyons, whose volunteer activities\nhave included work with the\nCanadian Red Cross, War Child\nCanada and Save the Children, hopes\nsharing her insight of the HIV/AIDS\nepidemic will inspire youth in her own\ncommunity to get more involved.\n\"I always had a passion for the\nissue, but how can you really get that\nacross based on things in a textbook\nor statistics? Now that I've seen these\nthings, I can show people the pictures. I can explain what it feels like\nto walk down the street, to see the\norphaned children, to not see any\nadults, to see five funerals in 10 days.\n\"AIDS has become such a catastrophe that each and every person in\nthe world, HIV-positive or not,\nCanadian or Malawian, needs to do\ntheir part, somehow needs to take\naction.\" \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 io\nIC REPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2 O O 4\nUBC Public Affairs has opened both a radio and TV studio on campus\n..\u00E2\u0080\u0094...\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB-\u00C2\u00AB . 1 ___..~ where you can do live interviews with local, national and international\nNEWS TV I RADIO media Lets.\nTo learn more about being a UBC expert, call us at 604.822.2064 and\nvisit our web site at www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/experts/signup\nMargaret Visser on\nThe Meaning of Saints\nOctober 20-21,2004\nWednesday, October 20, 8:00 pm\nTotem Park Residence Commonsblock, UBC\nThursday, October 21,12:00 pm\nTotem Park Residence Commonsblock, UBC\nThursday, October 21, 8:00 pm\nThe Chan Centre, UBC*\nlickets are free but must be obtained in advance\nat the Regent College reception, 5800 University\nBoulevard, Vancouver, Phone: 604.224.3245\nwww.regent-college.edu/laing\nrn Regent\nCB College\nAlumni\nBY BRIAN LIN\nUBC physics grad Jeremy Hilton is convinced he's part of an elite team\ndestined for something great - something that will revolutionize the\nway we live.\nFour years into his first full-time job, Hilton is now Director of\nIntellectual Property at D-Wave Systems, a Vancouver-based company\nspecializing in quantum computing technology.\nHilton has helped D-Wave file almost 100 patents related to\nquantum computing, more than the number of patents filed by industry giants IBM, NEC and the U.S. Department of Defense combined.\nCo-founded in 1999 by UBC physics PhD Geordie Rose with the\nhelp of his UBC mentor, venture capitalist Haig Farris, D-Wave has\nearned a reputation in the field as a serious contender in the race to\nbuild the first quantum computer in the world, an achievement that\nhas been likened to electricity in the 1830s.\nD-Wave was the first quantum computing start-up to receive venture capital backing, having impressed local and national investment\nfunds. D-Wave recently became the first quantum computing\ncompany to receive financing from a top-tier US venture capital\nfund. At US$8 million, the financing led by Silicon Valley venture\nfund Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and including investment from the\n$60 billion British Columbia Investment Corporation, solidified the\ncompany's leadership role in the field..\nHilton and Rose have no doubt of the feasibility of the device that\npromises to blow all traditional computers right out of the water.\nUsing quantum mechanics, the rules that govern all matter and\nenergy, to accelerate computation, quantum computers are theorized\nto outperform any conceivable conventional supercomputer.\n\"We know it's going to work,\" says Hilton. \"It's just a matter\nof time.\"\nBoth avid athletes - Hilton was on the UBC Varsity swim team\nand Rose has won numerous national wrestling titles - they learned\nmore than just physics at UBC.\n\"I learned to think outside the box,\" says Hilton. \"The ability\nto be creative in solving problems is invaluable.\"\nRose's eureka moment happened in Farris's entrepreneurship class\nat the business school. \"We got to meet and speak to people who were\nsuccessful Vancouver-based entrepreneurs, such as Norm Francis of\nPivotal and Paul Lee of Electronic Arts,\" says Rose. \"And my reaction\nwas T can do that!'\"\nAlready armed with a strong contingent of UBC alums - nine out\nof 22 full-time staff are UBC grads - Rose says he won't hesitate to\nhire some more. \"UBC folks always live up to our expectations.\nThey're extremely well trained compared to grads from other\nuniversity and colleges.\" \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nA NEW POINT OF VIEW.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094^\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nINTRACO RP\nARGYLL HOUSE EAST\nAT CHANCELLOR PLACE\nINTRODUCING ARGYLL HOUSE EAST - a limited collection of\ncityhomes and apartments that back onto a green belt next to the historic Iona\nBuilding at UBC. You're close to the Chan Centre, the UBC Botanical Gardens\nand the Nitobe Garden where you can take in Japanese tea while enjoying the\nbeautiful surroundings. Homes at Argyll House East can be as large as 2600\nsquare feet. And, when you compare the cityhome prices to the cost of other\nhomes of comparable size in West Point Grey, you get a lot of value which\nmeans that you really can relax and enjoy the views of your new backyard... and\nyour new living room.\nBut, with only 11 cityhomes and 31 smartly designed single level apartment\n.homes and penthouses to choose from, your opportunities to own a home at\nArgyll House East are limited.\n,\nNOW OPEN\nOne Bedroom & One + Den Apartments priced from $264,900.\nTwo Bedroom Corner Apartments priced from $479,900.\nCityhomes priced from $574,900.\nPenthouses priced from $599,900.\nARt;VLI IIOUSI [A*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-. j-.- BEACH\nStop by our Discovery Centre\nat 1715 Theology Mall\nfacing Chancellor Boulevard.\nOpen noon til 5pm daily\n(except Fridays)\nFor more information call us at 604.228.8100\nor visit our website at www.argyllhouse.ca\n.......... \u00C2\u00AB*.. J^M PACIHC II UBC REPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2OO4 |\nRetiring Within 5 Years?\nA Texan on Campus\nFirst American recipient of International Leader of Tomorrow Award. BY MICHELLE COOK\nAs an American tourist visiting\nCanada, just one day in Vancouver\nwas enough to convince Jason Wood\nthat it might be a nice place to live.\nThe teen from Texas liked the look of\nthe city.\nBack in his hometown of San\nAngelo, a west Texas community of\n90,000 people deep in the heart of oil\nand ranch country, Wood started\ndoing some research and liked what he\nfound out.\nVancouver's film industry appealed\nto the avid movie buff and UBC had\nan award program for international\nstudents that could help him study in\nthe city he had found so picturesque.\nFour years later, Wood, 18, is back\nin Vancouver as the first American\nrecipient of an International Leader of\nTomorrow (PLOT) Award.\nWood is one of 12 students worldwide to receive an ILOT award to\nstudy at UBC this year. The awards -\neach worth about $23,000 annually\nand renewable for up to three years -\nhelp outstanding international students\nwho couldn't otherwise afford post-\nsecondary education. The awards program is the largest of its kind at a\nCanadian university. It is funded by\nUBC's International Student Initiative\n(ISI) which was launched in 1996 to\nincrease the number of international\nstudents on campus from a range of\ncountries.\nUBC has been offering ILOT\nawards since 2001 to help attract some\nof the world's brightest young minds\nto campus. Since then, 39 students\nfrom 29 countries have benefited from\nthe program. This year, more than 145\napplications were considered.\nWood, who will study commerce at\nthe Sauder School of Business, doesn't\nseem fazed by the fact that he's the first\nU.S. student to receive the award. After\nall, he's worked hard to get here.\nKaren McKellin is the associate\ndirector of ISI and a member of the\nILOT awards committee who chose\nWood. She says he was selected\nbecause of his high academic grades,\nhis extracurricular activities which\nincluded working as the editor of his\nhigh school newspaper and co-editor\nof his school's yearbook, and his clear\nbut unusual professional goals.\n\"Jason is completely interested in a\ncareer in the movie business and has\nmade consistent choices to support\nthat,\" McKellin says. \"The feeling of\nthe committee was that this was a very\ndeserving young man from an economically disadvantaged background\nwho worked after school at his local\nmovie theatre.\n\"He's combined his love of film\nwith a profound interest in learning the\nbusiness of films - how to promote\nthem, how they get to be blockbusters\n- and he'd done his research to see that\nwe had a movie industry here in\nHollywood North.\"\nWood, whose own movie preferences range from indie films to \"popcorn\" blockbusters, says he considered\ngoing to NYU or UCLA - schools in\nthe world's top two movie production\ncentres. In the end, he opted for\nVancouver.\nHe hopes to complement his commerce courses with electives in film\nstudies and Chinese (when he was in\nhigh school, Wood spent a month in\nChina with his grandmother who was\nteaching English there). While in\nVancouver, he's also looking forward\nto experiencing different cultures,\nchecking out places like Chinatown,\nand learning to kayak.\nWood is one of only a few of his\nclassmates to leave Texas for post-\nsecondary education, and the only person out of his graduating class of 770\nto choose to study in Canada.\n\"Most people from San Angelo stay\nin Texas and most go to Texas\nschools,\" he explains. \"My grandparents wanted me to stay in Texas, but\nmy mom and stepdad have been supportive. San Angelo is not a place with\nlots of opportunities for younger people, so they're all excited for me. For\nmy birthday, my grandmother even\nordered stuff online from the UBC\nbookstore.\"\nWood says he's never been away\nfrom his family for any great length of\ntime and he'll miss them and his friends\n- but one thing he won't miss is the\nhot, dry Texas weather.\n\"In Vancouver, I'm looking forward\nto starting something new, the scenery\nand the weather,\" Wood says.\nHopefully, he packed an umbrella. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nNew Name More Game\nUBC REC Bigger and Better\nBy merging two departments, UBC\nREC is now bigger and better to serve\nthe UBC community. The dynamic\nsport and recreation program gives\nstudents, faculty and staff the chance\nto get active and get involved through\nintramurals and league sports, events,\ntournaments, personal fitness, informal/drop-in activities, instructional\nprograms and outdoor recreation.\nWith a record number of 22,429 participants last year, program\nmanager Kavie Toor says UBC REC has the biggest intramurals\nprogram in the country. More than 30 per cent of all first year\nstudents participate. Toor says statistics show first-year participants\nhave a higher grade point average (70.74 per cent) than non-participants (68.51 per cent) - more proof that exercise is good for you! \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nNow What Do You Do?\n* SET clear achievable goals\n* BUILD a strategy that will sell your qualifications\n* PREPARE a winning interview presentation\nWE CAN HELP. Our Career Starter Program covers everything you need to\nknow now and in the future - tools, strategies, tactics - delivered by people\nwho have made hiring decisions in the real world. 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Because the co-developers are\nultimately the owners, depending on market conditions, savings\nas high as 30 per cent can be realized through the elimination\nof typical project management and marketing costs.\nOn behalf ofthe co-developers, UBC Properties Trust, UBC's\nproperty management arm, arranges for the purchase of land\nfrom the university, plan and design the project, apply for the\nnecessary approvals, arrange construction financing, and hire all\nof the necessary project consultants to complete the final\nconstruction ofthe project.\nHawthorn Green is UBC's first co-development plan and the\nfirst of its kind in North America. Construction is underway on\nthe second co-development, Logan Lane Townhouses, a 61-unit\nproject in the Hawthorn Place mid-campus neighbourhood.\nDr. Judith Hall is one of ten new University Town residents.\nShe and nine fellow UBC faculty and staff just finished\nbuilding and moving into their new townhouse complex,\nHawthorn Green. Located in UBC's mid-campus\nneighbourhood, each townhouse has its own self-contained\nrental suite providing new opportunities for both owners\nand students to live and work on campus. This landmark\ninitiative is unique in North America and symbolizes what\nUniversity Town is all about: community, culture and\nacademic pursuit.\nFaculty and staff interested in hearing more about joining\nor starting a co-development group, are invited to contact\nUBC Properties Trust.\nPlease e-mail:\njcraig@ubcproperties.com or call 604-731-3103.\nFor more information on University Town please visit\nwww. university to wn. ubc. ca\nUNIVERSITY TOWN\nUBC\nA SUSTAINABLE FUTURE\nUNIVERSITY TOWN\n6328 MEMORIAL ROAD, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z2\nWWW.UNIVERSITYTOWN.UBC.CA"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B8K U2"@en . "LE3_B8K_U2_2004_09_02"@en . "10.14288/1.0118171"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . 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