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• Teck Cominco creates Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at UBC

  - 2006-10-01

  British Columbia's only mining engineering program received a $7.5 million gift that will significantly increase its capacity for education and research. A major donation from Teck Cominco, plus contributions from the company's partners, will create the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia UBC.The...

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• Recent dissertations.

  - 2005-01-01

  Abeita, Lynn Ann. "American Indian Compliance with Health Screening Behaviors." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2004. Aguilera, Dorothy E. "Who Defines Success: An Analysis of Competing Models of Education for American Indian and Alaskan Native Students." PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2003. ...

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• NSERC's Synergy Award for Innovation.(Industry)(Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Pulp and Paper Network for Innovation in Education and Research, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  NSERC's Synergy Award for Innovation has been awarded to the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Paprican, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Network for Innovation in Education and Research PAPIER, the University of British Columbia, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, and McGill University. The award was...

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• Doc in training inspired in junior high P.E. (Careers & Training).(Nicholas Half, physical education)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-01-01

  It's exam time at the University of British Columbia, but second-year medical student Nicholas Half takes 45 minutes out of his busy schedule to go for a run around the Endowment Land. "I'd like to run three or four times a week, but right ...

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• UBC selects new dean of Education.

  - 2000-01-12

  M2 PRESSWIRE-12 January 2000-UBC: UBC selects new dean of Education C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11012000 Robert Tierney, an internationally renowned and innovative educator, has been named dean of Education at the University of British Columbia. His selection follows an...

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• UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: Hire education -- UBC's new Arts Co-op is working.

  - 1999-10-06

  M2 PRESSWIRE-6 October 1999-UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: Hire education -- UBC's new Arts Co-op is working C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:051099 A Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia isn't what it used to be. A...

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