Your Invited! Welding Safety Seminar (free, 1-day, in the ballroom, June 1st) – Partnership between WorkSafeBC, Acklands Grainger, and HSE. Open to the community. See http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/hse/__shared/assets/welderssafety25150.pdf to register.
Building a Campus is Like Building a Community
To responsibly steward the rapid growth and development of this community, UBC’s Okanagan Campus has placed sustainability at the core of all our planning processes and strategic directions. To date, the campus has grown by 54% in square meters since 2007 and will triple its size from 0.5 million square feet to 1.5 million square feet by the end of the campus build out.
While such rapid growth has increased absolute building carbon emissions by 24.7%, greater efficiencies have been achieved. With a 54% increase in square meters from 2007-2010, the total carbon emissions per square meter has been reduced by 19.1% as compared to 2007 values. Increased efficiency is largely due to the energy efficient design and operation of all new academic buildings and residences on campus, and reductions in natural gas consumption as a result of geothermal heating and cooling which commenced in 2006. The campus has also received a number of awards as a testament to its smart, integrated sustainable building design.
Convocation
More than 1,000 students from seven faculties and schools will graduate during five ceremonies on June 9 and 10 at the sixth Convocation of UBC’s Okanagan campus. 2011 marks the first class of Human Kinetics graduates. Ceremony schedules and further details can be found at http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/graduation/welcome.html.
Recent Public Art Collection Acquisitions
Inuit Prints, donated by Mr. Neil Lenard to complement the other fifteen prints in the Library, also donated by him.
Donation of six prints by artist Briar Craig, a former department Head, a current faculty member, and the continuing coordinator for the visual arts program. This set of prints will hang in the Field Reading Room in the Library.
Briar Craig’s Eclectic Company, donated by the FCCS Dean’s Office.
Painting by Nelson Yuen, donated by Critical Studies department technician Maureen Lisle.
Marli Luff paintings, donated by the Office of Gwen Zilm, former AVP of Learning Services.
Woon-Hing Manning, a BFA student who graduated in 2010, was diagnosed with the liver cancer that took her life in January 2011. It was Woon’s dying wish that these photographs be donated to the UBCO Public Art Collection.
