ACA @ UBC 8th Annual International Seminar & Symposium

February 1, 2016

Public Talk: Patient Centered Care – Wrapping Personalized Medicine Around the Patient

January 25, 2016

A panel of patients and doctors come together for a discussion on personalized medicine from patients’ perspectives. What tests are available now? For what disorders? How do I talk to my doctor about personalized medicine? Explore a richer understanding of patients’ needs and wants to inform the implementation of personalized medicine for all British Columbians.

Join a conversation with people who have experiences with cancer, diabetes and a dangerous but preventable reaction to a drug, a student who is exploring the power of language to bridge the gap between patients and healthcare providers, a pharmacist who is bringing “pharmacogenomics” to rural and urban community pharmacies across British Columbia and an oncologist involved in “personalized oncogenomics” who can address the question: How do I talk to my oncologist about personalized treatment for my cancer?

This event took place on February 10, Wednesday 2016, 6-8pm.

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Jain, K. K., SpringerLink (Online service), & SpringerLINK ebooks – Biomedical and Life Sciences. (2015). Textbook of personalized medicine (2nd 2015.;2; ed.). DE: Springer New York. [Link]

Multiple Vendors, & EBSCOhost.Personalized medicine in oncology. Personalized Medicine in Oncology, [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Family Practice

Pharmacy / Pharmaceutical Sciences

LSI, Vancouver Public Library, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

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AABC: Outreach, Fundraising, and Donor Relationships

January 21, 2016

The AABC (Archives Association of British Columbia) is pleased to partner with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC to present our 4th webcast roundtable on “Outreach, Fundraising, and Donor Relationships”.

Building and maintaining donor relationships is a key aspect of daily archival work for many organizations. This can happen through simple outreach activities or grand fundraising events that shine attention on our archival treasures and our need for funding to preserve them.

Topics discussed include:

What building blocks need to be in place to foster strong relationships with donors?
How can we leverage our time and (sometimes limited) resources to manage a successful outreach program?
What are the steps to a solid fundraising strategy?
How to nurture a positive “Friends of the Archives” partnership

This event took place on February 26, Friday 2016.

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Archival studies. (2008). The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 89(2), 231-231. doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2008.00064.x [Link]

Cox, R. J., & Larsen, R. L. (2008). iSchools and archival studies. Archival Science, 8(4), 307-326. doi:10.1007/s10502-009-9092-3 [Link]

Finch, E. F. (1994). Advocating archives: An introduction to public relations for archivists. Metuchen, N.J: The Society of American Archivists and Scarecrow Press. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Library, Archival, and Information Science

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Articulations: ACAM Creative Showcase

January 20, 2016

Looking to escape the rain this January? The ACAM (Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies) program warmly invites you to its first Creative Showcase event featuring ACAM students and alumni. Join us for an afternoon of readings and performances, good company, and general all around good times!

Event details:

When: January 29, 2016, 12-1pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room (301)
Registration: RSVP now to save your seat, as there is limited capacity

Featuring:

Yulanda Lui
Yulanda is a queer Chinese Canadian settler born on Anishnabe territory, and dreams through her writing and her organizing. She is in her third year of the Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice program with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. A Virgo Libra cusp, Yulanda is a fierce believer in collectivity and possibility and can be found learning and playing in spaces of magic, community, and utopia.

MARY CHEN
Mary Chen (she/her/hers) is a 3rd year Creative Writing student who has grown up in the cradle of unceded Coast Salish land. She is part of the Editorial Board for The Talon, UBC’s alternative press, and The Garden Statuary, UBC’s undergraduate literary journal. She spends most of her time outside of class reading comic books and chasing after her rascal dog.

AMANDA WAN
Amanda Wan is a third year majoring in honours literature with a minor in ACAM. She likes to daydream through reading, writing, and taking pictures.

MICHAEL NGUYEN
Michael is in his last (4th) year of History and minor in ACAM. With these two he is currently working on pursuing oral history as a way of reinterpreting past histories, especially of the Vietnamese diaspora. Even though he lives between the two worlds of Vietnamese traditions and Canadian society, on the side he enjoys folk and country music and hopes to bring in some good tunes of the two in the showcase for all to enjoy!

JANE SHI (with photography by Eric Tsui)
Jane Shi is an editor at The Garden Statuary and The Talon UBC. She currently lives on Kingsway, a thoroughfare occupying an Indigenous trail of the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her family and ancestors are from Zhoushan and Pujiang; she was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province and came to live in Richmond, BC a year before she began writing. Poetry will always be both weapon and shelter for her, a matter of survival.

Eric Tsui is a photographer who majors in English Literature and minors in Asian Area studies. His photographs can be found at flickr.com/ricesuit.

CAROLYN NAKAGAWA
Carolyn is a 2015 ACAM grad currently working at the Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby. She is a poet and playwright, with poems published in the Alliterasian: 20 Years of Ricepaper magazine anthology, The Puritan, and forthcoming in Room magazine. A staged reading of her full-length play The Girl with No Face is being presented by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre on February 21.

*Accessibility info:

From East Mall, enter the Learning Centre through the main doors. Lillooet Room is on level 3 in The Chapman Learning Commons.

There are two good sized elevators on the lobby level (east mall entrance) that access all levels of the Learning Centre.

*Lunch (meat and vegetarian options) will be provided for those who RSVP. Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs.

If you have any questions, please email acam.events@ubc.ca

We hope to see you there!

This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.

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How is Gender Associated with “Good” Learning and Perceptions of “Good” Teaching

January 11, 2016

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UBC Centennial Lunar New Year Festival

January 7, 2016

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One Day @ UBC Centennial Lecture: Ready-to-Wear Electronics

January 1, 2016

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One Day @ UBC Centennial Lecture: Interactive Digital Media

January 1, 2016

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Imagine BC Community Innovation 2015-2016 Contest

December 18, 2015

Imagine BC is an annual opportunity for residents of British Columbia to pitch an excellent, innovative and possibly untraditional idea to our jury. Successful pitches receive funding of up to $7,000. Winning ideas are those that address identified community needs or interests, such as volunteerism, small business development, digital literacy, community engagement, cultural programming, social inclusion or local history.

Initially grounded in the library community, the inspiration of this project was to honour the incredible contributions made by so many individuals in our community, and across the knowledge sector at large. We want to explore the potential for incubation in the knowledge sector and to establish new, enabling, and innovative legacies.

For 2015-2016, submissions will be accepted until 30 December, 2015. The jury will select and contact successful submissions by mid-February, 2016. Click here for more information on how to submit.

Jury

The 2015-2016 jury and planning committee is comprised of representatives from library, co-op and knowledge sectors. Jury members are appointed annually in October by program partners. The jury’s first task is to establish priorities for the program year and prepare to receive pitches.