By: Lasia Kretzel
March 15, 2018
News 1130 reported on the Chan Gunn Pavilion, a new sports and physiotherapy facility at UBC.
The two-storey 20,000 square-foot space includes a rehabilitation gym, research space, offices and clinic rooms. It will also be used by faculty and students from the School of Kinesiology, which is part of the Faculty of Education, to explore the body’s response to exercise.
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Congratulations to Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue, professor in the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy (EDCP), who has been selected to receive the 2018 International Edwin Ziegfeld Award. Presented by The United States Society for Education through Art, the International Edwin Ziegfeld Award honours a colleague from outside of the United States who has made contributions of international significance to art education.
This prestigious award will be presented to Dr. O’Donoghue at the National Art Education Association Convention in Seattle in March 2018.
UBC’s favourite departmental funding program is back! Applications are now being accepted for the Healthy Workplace Initiatives Program (HWIP).
In support of UBC departments and units that are interested in promoting wellbeing in the workplace, the HWIP provides start-up funds for health-related activities. The program has previously funded grassroots initiatives such as yoga classes, health challenges, mental health training and creative activities.
In 2017, the HWIP funded the following in Vancouver and the Okanagan:
Do you and your colleagues have a great idea for boosting the health and wellbeing of your team? Need a little financial assistance to supplement department resources? Consider applying today. Deadline for applications is April 18, 2018.
Full details, including regulations, funding toolkits and application forms can be found on the HWIP page.
Dr. Darren Warburton, KIN
Dr. Jan Hare, LLED
Congratulations to Dr. Jan Hare (LLED, Principal Applicant), Dr. Darren Warburton (KIN, Principal Applicant) and their team on receiving a $100,000 Development Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Indigenous Component of Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative.
Their team includes R. Miles (Principal Applicant) and Co-Applicants: Dr. Shannon Bredin (KIN), Dr. Moss Norman (KIN), Dr. Tanis Mihalynuk (HealthLinkBC), P. Oh (University of Toronto), and Dr. Ryan Rhodes (University of Victoria). The funds will be used to support their project, “Indigenous Health and Wellness through Empowerment and Self-Determination.”
The Development Grants are intended to support communities to come together with self-identified relevant organizations to establish needed expertise to support Indigenous-driven research and will provide support for workshop preparation activities, community personnel support, and travel support to attend the workshop.
By: Daniel Tencer
March 12, 2018
Huffington Post reported that UBC has several top-ranked programs in the world, according to higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds.
UBC has three programs that rank in the top 10: geography, library and information management, and sports-related subjects, which includes the School of Kinesiology.
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Studying is hard work. Make it easier and enter alumniUBC’s Cram for Exams Tuition Contest to win $2,500 towards tuition. Open to all currently registered UBC students!
The History Education Network (Dr. Penney Clark, Director) and the Historical Thinking Project (Dr. Peter Seixas, Director) were featured in a new report from the Conference Board of Canada, Making the Connection: Growing Collegiality and Collaboration Between K-12 and PSE Educators. The two networks together served as one of three case studies used to examine connections between the K-12 and post-secondary education sectors.
The World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS) International Conference 2018 will be held November 23-26, 2018 at Beijing Normal University, China’s leading higher institution for educational studies and teacher education.
The theme of the WALS 2018 is Lesson Study and Teacher Education: International Dialogue. It aims to provide a platform for an international and cross-cultural dialogue through which educators and researchers from different parts of the world can contribute to a broad vision for sharing their knowledge, understanding and experience of lesson study as a form of practice-based research.
The portal for paper and session submissions is now open. Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2018.
Please review the Call for Submissions PDF that contains important information about this year’s Annual Conference theme and submission requirements.
The 40th annual UBC Physics Olympics event was held at UBC’s Vancouver campus on Saturday, March 11, 2018. Co-hosted by the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science, the event was a great success, with a record number of teams and students attending from all over BC: 73 teams and 721 students. Congratulations to the winning team from Penticton Secondary School, whose teacher, Bruce Gowe, is a former UBC graduate.
In addition, Dr. Marina Bolotin-Milner facilitated a professional development event for teachers that featured presentations by two very successful BC teachers, Mrs. Giselle Lawrence and Mr. Pouyan Khalili.The event focused on new British Columbia science curriculum and on different ways of facilitating inquiry in a science classroom.
Infinity – The number of laughs and the level of excitement
1352 km – The distance from Terrace to Vancouver (the most remote school attending the event)
722 – Number of students attending the 40th UBC Physics Olympics
365 – Number of days we spent planning the event since the last year
108 – Number of medals awarded to top teams
82 – Number of team leaders (teachers and coaches) supporting the students
73 – Number of teams in attendance
71 – Number of volunteers supporting the event (faculty, graduate and undergraduate students)
40 – Number of UBC Physics Olympics we have organized so far
39 – The size of the largest team in attendance
35 – Number of physics teachers who participated in the Professional Development event
10 – Number of times Penticton Secondary School has won the overall event since 1977
6 – Number of heats (independent events during the day)
6 – Number of plaques awarded to the schools
2 – Number of pre-build events the students had prepared at home
2 – Number of large auditoriums we had to use to seat all the participants, coaches and volunteers for the final event.
1 – Number of Officers of the Order of Canada who facilitated our events (Dr. J. Matthews)
1 – The overall Physics Olympics Trophy
