UBC Health Information Series and the Life Sciences Institute Presents "Tuberculosis – a silent local killer and global threat"

March 14, 2015

Tuberculosis (TB) has plagued humanity since antiquity. Today it still infects one third of the human population and new drugs are urgently needed to prevent the spread of drug-resistant strains. UBC LSI Public Talks, in collaboration with TBVets Charitable Foundation, presents an interactive panel of internationally acclaimed speakers on the local and global state of TB as well as cutting-edge approaches to combatting the disease.

Speakers:
Dr. Jeremy Hirota, Moderator – Assistant Professor, UBC, Department of Medicine

Dr. Bill Jacobs – Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology and Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. Kevin Elwood – Clinical Professor Emeritus, UBC, Dept. of Medicine, BC Centre for Disease Control

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Gold, M. J., Hughes, M. R., Antignano, F., Hirota, J. A., Zaph, C., & McNagny, K. M. (2015). Lineage-specific regulation of allergic airway inflammation by the lipid phosphatase src homology 2 domain–containing inositol 5-phosphatase (SHIP-1). Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.01.019. [Link]

Hernandez-Garduno, E., & Elwood, K. (2012). Nontuberculous mycobacteria in tap water. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 18(2), 353-353. doi:10.3201/eid1802.110455. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Medicine

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Steven Galloway – The Confabulist

March 6, 2015

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Creative Writing Department. Presented by the Chan Centre as part of the Beyond Words series. Multi-award winning novelist and UBC professor Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, explores magic in his newest book The Confabulist. This beautiful, suspense-filled novel uses the life and sudden death of turn-of-the-century magician and stunt performer Harry Houdini to weave a critically acclaimed tale of intrigue, love and illusion. Join Galloway for this magical (pun very much intended) evening of readings and sleight-of-hand as he is joined in performance by master magician David Gifford to examine reality and illusion, and the ways that imagination can alter what we perceive and believe. Post-show artist talk moderated by acclaimed Canadian author Miriam Toews.

Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library

Manning, J. (2003). Galloway, Steven. ascension. Library Journal, 128(14), 206. [Link]

Farrell, B. (2010). Galloway, Steven. the cellist of Sarajevo. Library Journal, 135(9), 50. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

English

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Your Next Step: Becoming a Leader

March 6, 2015

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. Your resume lists the best schools (naturally) and your experience and skills meet the requirements of the job There’s no single path to becoming a successful leader. Although hard work and foresight are important traits, it sometimes comes down to being the right person at the right time. But there are concrete steps you can take to ensure that when opportunity knocks, you’re ready to answer. Join us for Your Next Step: Becoming a Leader where business and community leaders will offer insight on how they got where they are. They’ll share key pieces of advice from their own journeys as well as tips on how to get your foot in the door, find a mentor, and develop your leadership skills. If you’re looking for inspiration and guidance on how to join the leadership ranks and advance your career, this is your opportunity to learn from some of Canada’s most successful leaders.

Moderator
Dan Burritt, BA’04 – Reporter, CBC News Vancouver

Panelists
Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia, BA’86 – Chief Executive Officer, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa and Absolute Spa Group. Named one of Canada’s most powerful women.

Cybele Negris, BA’91 – CEO and Co-Founder, Webnames.ca Inc. Named one of BC’s Most Influential Women in Business.

David Ostrow, Honorary Medical Alumni Award recipient – Interim President and CEO, Fraser Health; Professor of Medicine, UBC. Foremost leader in the medical industry.

Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library

Cuervo, Á., Ribeiro, D., Roig, S., & ebrary eBooks. (2010). Entrepreneurship: Concepts, theory and perspective. New York: Springer. [Link]

Welsch, H. P., & NetLibrary, I. E. C. (2004). Entrepreneurship: The way ahead. New York: Routledge. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Business Career Research

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Essences: an exhibition by Evelyn Nodwell

February 25, 2015

“High key” is a traditional style of photography that uses soft lighting for reduced contrast with white backgrounds. In this exhibit, I have played loosely with a high key type of approach in order to create a mood or atmosphere. By exposing only the key elements of an image, leaving the rest to be guessed or imagined, the photographs express a sense of mystery or have a dream-like quality. I have called this series, “Essences” because the eye is drawn to elements of the photograph that might be overlooked in a more conventionally exposed image.

These photographs are created almost entirely in the camera by selecting a certain exposure at the time of taking the photo. Post-processing work is limited to “developing” the image digitally. That means working with the image in Lightroom to produce the best possible print, without substantially changing the image.

The photographs in this exhibit were taken in Vancouver, B.C.; Paris, France; and China.

Artist Bio

Evelyn Nodwell, an Anthropologist and Ph.D. graduate of UBC, attended the Alberta College of Art for two years before moving to Vancouver. She has taken photography workshops with masters such as Sharron Milstein, Nevada Weir and Sam Abell, as well as taken classes in Langara College’s Photography Program.

Evelyn had a one-month solo exhibit at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, Vancouver; exhibited in the Art Museum of Guiyang in China as a member of an artists’ exchange group; and had an image in DarkroomGallery.com. She began 2015 with an exhibit in The Gallery at Highcroft throughout January; through The Ferry Building Gallery, has contracted a solo exhibit at the West Vancouver City Hall in May; and in April will be exhibiting at the Burnaby Art Gallery and Deer Lake Gallery along with British Columbian and visiting Chinese artists.

Evelyn has had prints in the Burnaby Art Gallery Sales and Rental division; and has had photos published in Canadian Geographic Magazine, The Province newspaper and Vancouver Coast and Mountains Tourism publications. She has given photography workshops and presentations, and judges for camera clubs. Her images regularly score in the top 2-10% in local competitions.

As an anthropologist and independent filmmaker, Evelyn Nodwell has worked in British Columbia and India. Based on her research in India, she produced two television documentaries in collaboration with Knowledge Network.

This exhibition runs from March 2 to April 15, 2015 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 2nd floor foyer exhibition gallery space.

To see photos of this exhibition, please click here.

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Looking Back at the Umbrella Revolution

February 23, 2015

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Speakers

Zoe Lam – Zoe Lam is PhD student at UBC Linguistics. Her research focuses on the phonology of tone, tone perception, and the interface of phonetics and phonology. Lam has done work/ been working on Cantonese tone perception, the intonation and discourse particles in East Asian languages, and the morphotonology of Nata (an Eastern Bantu language). Recently, she has started learning Medumba, a grassfield Bantu language. As a speaker-linguist of Cantonese, Lam is also intrigued by the pragmatics and syntax of Cantonese discourse particles.

Eleanor Yuen – Eleanor Yuen is an expert in library management and the former Head of UBC’s Asian Library. She has research expertise in Chinese-Canadian and Hong Kong issues. She has also developed a website entitled Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia. She has been involved in community volunteer work in a variety of ways, including serving as founding director and past president of the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society and on the advisory board of Strathcona employment assistance services.

Hedy Law – Hedy Law graduated from the University of Chicago in 2007 with a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory. In 2005 she received the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship of the American Musicological Society. In the same year she won the best student paper of the Midwest chapter of the American Musicology Society. She was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, she was Assistant Professor in Music History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she won a university-wide teaching award. Her articles have appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal and Musique et Geste en France, and are forthcoming in Oxford Handbook in Music Censorship; Noise, Audition, and Aurality; and the special issue on music and architecture in the journal CENTER: Architecture and Design in America. She is currently working on a book on music and pantomime in eighteenth-century France.

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Personalized Medicine: Your Life, Your Genes, Your Health and Happiness

February 20, 2015

This talk is an informal and open forum that aims to bring the latest and greatest ideas in the area of the Life Sciences to the public. Each event is free to attend and will include a talk, networking opportunities and reception. This series focuses on Personalized Medicine and how the Life Sciences Institute faculty, staff and students are working to change clinical practice, improve health outcomes, and reduce health costs. In partnership with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Health Information Series, an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community, this talk will also be recorded for webcast viewing at a later date.

Moderator

Martin Dawes, MD, PhD
Head, UBC Department of Family Practice

What is personalized medicine?

Pieter Cullis, PhD
Director, UBC Life Sciences Institute; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

How can we harness knowledge of our molecules?

Bruce McManus, MD, PhD
Professor, UBC Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Co-Director, Institute for Heart + Lung Health; CEO, Centre of Excellence for Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre)

What does my own genome tell me?

Ida Goodreau
Adjunct Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business; Director of Strategy, UBC Centre for Healthcare Management

Is brain failure inevitable?

Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT
Associate Professor, UBC Department of Physical Therapy; Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Mobility, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Can we move from sick-care to health-care?

Larry Lynd, PhD
Professor, UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences; Director, UBC Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Dawes, M. (2006). Flu pandemic. Family Practice, 23(3), 265-266. doi:10.1093/fampra/cml021. [Link]

Cullis, P. (2015). Personalized medicine revolution : How diagnosing and treating disease are about to change forever. Vancouver: Greystone Books

Luo, H., & McManus, B. M. (2012). Is autophagy an avenue to modulate coxsackievirus replication and pathogenesis? Future Microbiology, 7(8), 921. doi:10.2217/fmb.12.67. [Link]

Goodreau, I. (2007). What gets measured, gets done. Healthcare Quarterly, 10(1), 98-98. [Link]

Liu-Ambrose, T. Y. (2011). Invited commentary. Physical Therapy, 91(8), 1208. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Medicine

Family Practice

Physical Therapy

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Chinese Lunar New Year Event – Paper Cutting Activity at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

February 19, 2015

Paper Cutting Activity at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
You are invited to celebrate the Lunar New Year by trying your hand at making traditional Lunar New Year paper cutting decorations. Booth will be located on Level 2 near the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.

Date: February 26
Time: 11:30am – 1:30pm
Location: Irving K. Barber Library – Level 2. Use the East Mall or Main Mall entrance
Cost: FREE

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"Taming the Beast with Metadata" Roundtable by Archives Association of BC

February 6, 2015

Join us in person or online for an engaging discussion “Taming the Beast with Metadata” hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). Livestream sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

“Taming the Beast with Metadata”
Setting aside infrastructure, policies, management, and money, what information needs to be recorded in order to ensure that the longevity of a digital record? Let’s talk about Rules for Archival Description and PREMIS.

February 20, 2015 at the Irving K. Barber Centre (Lillooet Room)

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Alumni Book Club

February 5, 2015

With awards season just around the corner, the alumni UBC Book Club is rolling out its red carpet and offering two evocative books turned into movies: Tracks by Robyn Davidson and The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

To learn more, we invite you to attend the Meet and Greet where you’ll meet your facilitator, fellow alumni, and learn about your book before you read it. Three weeks later, come to the Book Discussion and share your thoughts in a lively small group setting.

Meet and Greet:
Monday, March 16, 2015
7:00 – 8:00 pm

Book Discussion:
Monday, April 13, 2015
7:00 – 9:00 pm

Please click through to the book of your choice below for more details. Cecil Green Park House, at the University of British Columbia (6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C) – map

Spring 2015 Books

Tracks

Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Book Club Spring 2015

Facilitated by Maureen Phillips, BA’ 84, MA. I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company.

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The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Book Club Spring 2015

Facilitated by Dr. Brian McIlroy, BA, MA, PhD. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as “for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.”

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UBC Library Resources

Davidson, Robyn. Tracks. London: Cape, 1989. [Available at Koerner Library]

Tracks, Movie Adaptation, 2014. [Available at Koerner Library]

Greene, Grahame. End of the Affair. London: Heineman, 1955. [Available at Koerner Library]

End of the Affair, Movie Adaptation, 1999. [Available at Koerner Library – Videomatica Collection]

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Sally Mennill – Reducing Risk: Caesarean Section at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital, 1950-1970

February 3, 2015

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Consortium and the BC History of Nursing Society. In the immediate post-WWII Years, the treatment of caesarean sections solidified and became entrenched in medical and social discourses. Canadian mothers and medical professionals embarked on a quarter-of-a-century consideration of how reduction of risk in c-sections could contribute to positive outcomes. This case study looks at the operation as it occurred at St. Paul’s Hospital, exploring social, technological, and professional changes in the operation through the lens of a large, urban, tertiary care facility to expose a shift to increased comfort with the operation. By examining medical records and prevailing medical and social discourses of the era, Sally Mennill traces this shift beyond the early-twentieth-century era of extreme caution with regard to surgical birth. Specifically, caesarean deliveries continued to take place in cases when the fetus had to be removed to prevent imminent death, but it was also relied upon increasingly in scenarios where the threat of death was not the primary determining factor. By the end of the 1960s, caesarean section had become an option even when existing records suggest that danger was not clear cut.

About the speaker:
Sally received her BA in History and Canadian Studies from Simon Fraser University in 2000, and her MA in Canadian Studies from Trent University in 2005. Her PhD, exploring caesarean sections in post-WWII British Columbia, is from UBC’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (2012). Sally has been teaching at Douglas College since 2007, first as contract faculty and now as probationary regular faculty.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Mennill, S. (2014). Ideal births and ideal babies: English-canadian advice literature in the 1950s and 1960s. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 31(2), 25. [Link]

Mennill, S., & Strong-Boag, V. (2008). Identifying victims: Child abuse and death in canadian families. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien d’Histoire De La Médecine, 25(2), 311. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Medicine

History of Science and Medicine

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