By tessa on November 16, 2009
Host Bob McDonald and 10 experts will answer the 10 best questions sent in by you.
Do you have a burning question that’s never found an answer?
Have you ever wondered how sparrows survive the cold prairie winters, or why we get dark circles under our eyes, or why storms on other planets (like Jupiter) last for hundreds of years while storms on Earth last only weeks?
Here’s your chance to ask the question and have it answered by an expert on the Quirks & Quarks Question Show – recorded live on UBC campus, 8 March 2010.
Submit your burning question here.
Posted in Updates | Tagged ask a science question, Celebrate Research Week, Community Learning, Quirks & Quarks question challenge, research discovery, science questions, UBC Quirks and Quarks
By tessa on March 13, 2009
Last night’s Celebrate Research Week gala at the Chan Centre offered up not only fabulous hor’s d’oeuvres, tasty wine and excellent entertainment from the University Singers, Sara D Buechner and UBC opera students, but it also celebrated the amazing achievements of it’s academic community.
- David Sweet – UBC’s Faculty of Dentistry – Recipient of the Order of Canada for enhancing Canada’s reputation as a leader in Forensic Odontology.
- Max Cynader - Recipient of the Order of Canada for his contributions to the field of biomedical research and for increasing the accessibility of public treatments on the market.
- Ann Marie Craig - elected Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada for her pioneering contributions to the field of molecular and cellular neurobiology.
- Sarah Desmarais – is a recipient of this year’s Alice Wilson Award for her outstanding research on intimate partner violence.
- Clarence De Silva - was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his contributions to knowledge generation, dissemination, advanced education and the practice of engineering in Canada and overseas.
- Martha C. Piper - was named Specially Elected Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada for her extraordinary contributions to the advancement of knowledge through her ability to envision and create powerful new research frameworks.
- Tina Loo - recipient of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for her book States of Nature: Protecting Canadian Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
Posted in Event Listing | Tagged Ann Marie Craig, Celebrate Research Week gala, Clarence De Silva, David Sweet, Martha C. Piper, Max Cynader, Sarah Desmarais, Tina Loo
By tessa on April 8, 2009
Farha Khan of CITR’s Prof Talk recently interviewed Cathleen With who is a graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing program. I met Cathleen a few years ago when I worked at the same press that published her collection of short stories called Skids. As a young woman Cathleen spent some time in the Downtown east side battling addiction. Even though her work is fiction, many of the stories that she writes in this hard hitting collection, are about some of her friends and the community she built while she was there. Believe me this isn’t an easy read but in many ways her writing is beautiful, compelling and unsentimental. She doesn’t provide answers but she definitely makes you think.
Cathleen’s debut novel is called Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison published in February this year with Penguin Canada.
You can listen to Cathleen talking about her latest book on Prof Talk. You can also check out this National Post review.
Posted in Updates | Tagged Cathleen With, CITR Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison, Skids
