Outlets covering the event and the Chung Collection included 24 Hours, the Sing Tao, Ming Pao and Epoch Times publications, and Ming Pao’s Saturday Magazine.
The Vancouver Sun featured a story on the Chung Collection on its April 16, 2008 front page:
Ryan Arnold was born in North Vancouver in 1978. He is the author of The Coward Files (Conundrum Press, 2006) which was shortlisted for the 2007 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. He has been a columnist for The Globe & Mail and his work has appeared in Matrix Magazine and Career Suicide: Contemporary Literary Humour. He currently works in the entertainment marketing industry as an employee of Nettwerk Music Group. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Originally from Coquitlam British Columbia, Jordan Scott completed his MA in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and now lives and works in Toronto Canada. Jordan’s first book of poetry, Silt (New Star Books 2005) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Sections of his forthcoming collection blert (Coach House Books, 2008) have appeared in Filling Station, drunken boat and nypoesii. In 2006, he was writer in residence at the International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre in Rhodes, Greece.
The President and Vice-Chancellor and the Chair, Board of Governors of The University of British Columbia cordially invite you to view a live webcast of The Official Opening of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Friday, April 11, 2008 from 10:30 am – 11:30am (PST)
For more information, including systems requirements, CLICK HERE.
Join Dr. Carl Wieman, Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative and Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy as he gives an overview of research on learning that has come from cognitive psychology, brain research, and education.
Dr. Wieman’s talk was webcast from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Wednesday, March 19, 12noon – 1pm (PST). Visit our webcast page for an archived version and system requirements.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Rawi Hage is the author of the novel Deniro’s Game which was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor’s General Award in 2006. He was born inBeirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He immigrated to Canada in 1992. He is a writer, a visual artist and a curator. His writings have appeared in Fuse Magazine, Minza, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai and Al-Jadid. His visual works have been shown in gallaries and museums around the world. He is also a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec. He resides in Montreal.
Co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Wayson Choy’s first novel, The Jade Peony (Random House, 1996) spent twenty-six weeks on the The Globe and Mail’s bestseller list and placed number six on its 1996 Year-End National Bookseller List for fiction. It shared the Trillium Award that year with Margaret Atwood and the Vancouver Book Award. Begun as a short story in 1977, The Jade Peony went on to be anthologized more than twenty-five times. Wayson Choy lives in Toronto where he is at work on a new manuscript.
This event took place at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Musqueam Room.
In September 2006 the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre announced the BC History Digitization Program. The focus of the program is to promote increased access to British Columbia’s historical resources, including providing matching funds to undertake digitization projects that will result in free online access to our unique provincial historical material. The Learning Centre is pleased to announce the successful applicants for 2007.
For more information about the program please contact:
The Physiotherapy Outreach Program has been awarded the 2007 Partnership Award by the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. The award recognizes an organization (or group) that has significantly contributed to and advanced the image, ideals and goals of the physiotherapy profession through effective leadership and active partnerships. More information about the Partnership Award is available here.
The Physiotherapy Outreach Program is a partnership between the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC and the Physiotherapy Association of BC. Eugene Barsky, Physiotherapy Outreach Librarian, has developed a number of innovative programs and services in support of professional physiotherapists across BC.
