In This Issue

University News and Research
E-volution: Read Charles Darwin Letters Online
Celebrate Research Week
Stephen Toope: Canadian Universities Major Resource
in Meeting Global Challenges
Alumni & Students
Finding Love at UBC: Competition Winner
The Ubyssey: Student News and Views
Alumni Win Major Teaching Awards
Students Mobilize Sustainable Seafood at UBC
Help UBC Students Every Time You Fly
Volunteer Opportunities
Events and Services
TrekConnect: Meet Your Fellow Alumni
Climbing the Ladder: Career Services for UBC Alumni
Engage Your Brain: Public Lectures and Events

Darwin Day was celebrated on February 12 (his birth date) and UBC Library marked it a few days ahead of time with the launch of a digitized collection of rare Darwin letters.

Fans and scholars of Darwin can browse through 52 letters received or written by the famed biologist and now available online for the first time. Students are working to transcribe the letters, and these efforts will also be available to read online later in the year.

Browse the Darwin collection

"UBC Library has numerous rare and unique collections that have attracted scholars from around the world to our campus," says university archivist Chris Hives.

Many of these fascinating collections can be accessed online, including:

• Florence Nightingale Letters
• WWI Photograph Collection
• Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era
• UBC Student Yearbook Photograph Collection

March 3 to 9 is a week to celebrate the importance and impact of research, and this year's theme is research that touches lives and communities. There's something to pique the curiosity of everyone — including some events aimed at kids. Join the UBC community in exploring and discussing some fascinating topics, including:

• Global Fisheries: Are the gloom and doom justified?
• Youth, Culture & Identity: Challenging stereotypes & transforming education
  
• The Heart of Diabetes
• Topsy Turvy: Science, money & the human genome
• Living with Climate Surprises? Approaches to abrupt climate change & complex systems
• Democracy: Fashions, failures, and fantasies
  
• The State of the Media on Climate Change
• Africa: Canada responds, reflects, engages
• Science Journalism: Hype, spin, or the real thing?
• Healthy Lungs, Healthy Lives: The latest research and care in lung health
• Training the Mind: Science & spirituality

Browse the entire schedule

In December's Grad Gazette, we invited alumni to enter their UBC love stories into a competition. They stood to win lunch at Sage Bistro on campus, and tickets to UBC Theatre's production of Big Love. Judy Chapman heard about the competition through her son, Ryan Chapman, also a UBC grad (BASc'98, MSc'03). He thought his mother should enter the competition because the story of how his parents met has been told many times around the kitchen table…. And for those of you who have never sat at the Chapman's kitchen table, here it is again.

Judy Chapman (Pastro), BEd'71
and Ian Chapman, BASc'73

It was January 29, 1970. The rain was pouring down on a chilly Vancouver evening. My roommate and I were contemplating the free Friday night before us. We opened the Ubyssey to consult the Dances section. There was a dance at Totem Park — but, being in third year and having had our Totem time the two years prior, we were way too sophisticated for that.

The next ad caught our attention: The Engineers' Last Chance Mixer, Lion's Gate Hall, 4th Avenue. While "Last Chance" had a rather desperate feel to it (something about the last chance to find a date for the Engineers' ball) the thought of a great admission charge (free) and the prospect of lots of men and cheap beer (25 cents) were hard to pass up.

We put on our dancing shoes and headed off on the bus from our top floor suite at 4th and Alma to the Lion's Gate Hall....

Read more (including the other entries)

Lorraine Baron ( BSC'84, DEd'85, MA'92), Maryam Moayeri (MA'06) and Andrew Lum (BEds'81, DEd'04) are recipients of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence.

The award recognizes the efforts of outstanding elementary and secondary school teachers who instill in their students a love of learning and equip them with the skills they need to meet the challenges of a 21st century society and economy. It comes with a cash prize that the teachers can spend on their respective schools as they see fit.

Read the bios:

• Lorraine Baron
• Andrew Lum
• Maryam Moayeri

Lorraine is currently the numeracy teacher-coordinator for school district No. 23 and was a senior math teacher at Mt. Boucherie Secondary in the Okanagan at the time of the nomination. A ceremony to honour Lorraine was recorded by CHBC television. Watch the video clip.

Andrew is the teacher-librarian at North Delta Secondary School. The library program is technology-rich, student-centered and fully integrated into the school's curriculum. Its objective is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. Andy's philosophy is to work in collaboration with the classroom teacher to create and implement teaching and learning opportunities that focus on developing the skills students need to take responsibility for their own learning. He believes that this approach leads to students being inspired and strengthened by discovering their capabilities.

Maryam was based at West Vancouver Secondary School when nominated, teaching English, Social Studies, and French. She now teaches in the Education department at UBC during the spring and conducts research there as well. She has started a PhD in the Language and Literacy department and is a full-time student. Watch out for an appearance by Maryam in an upcoming CBC program Test the Nation.

Faculty of Education Celebrates 50 Years

The recognition of these talented and dedicated alumni coincides with the Faculty of Education's 50th anniversary. For half a century, the faculty has provided outstanding leadership in teaching, scholarship, research, and service. To honour this landmark academic year, the faculty will be hosting a wide range of events, including a gala weekend (March 30 - April 1 2007). Maryam Moayeri will be speaking at an Alumni and Emeriti Reunion and Donor Recognition event on Saturday, March 30, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, in the Scarfe Foyer, 2125 Main Mall.

Everyone is welcome to attend the following events:

• Opening Ceremony
  Friday, March 30, 4:00-7:30 pm, Scarfe foyer and 100, 2125 Main Mall
• Public Forum: The World We Have, The World We Want: Education for an Enduring Future Saturday, March 31, 2:00-4:00 pm, Scarfe 100, 2125 Main Mall
• 10k/5k Run and 2k Walk for Education
  Sunday, April 1, 9:00-noon, Scarfe and Pacific Spirit Park

For further event and registration details, please click on the banner below:

Currently, global seafood consumption is increasing during a time when the majority of wild fish stocks are over-exploited. It is predicted that by the mid-21st century nearly all fish stocks will be on the verge of collapse. Direct human actions threatening wild fish stocks include overfishing, bycatch, habitat destruction by various fishing techniques, coastal development, and poorly managed aquaculture. Recent initiatives attempting to reverse this trend include consumer-targeted campaigns promoting ecologically-sound seafood consumption to ensure the continued existence of fish stocks and health of marine ecosystems.

Recently, students at UBC have played key roles in the development of sustainable seafood programs on campus and nationally in conjunction with major environmental non-profits. At UBC, the Sustainable Seafood Project is a collaborative venture among many groups. The UBC Sustainability Office SEEDS has facilitated a program that includes UBC food service providers, faculty from Project Seahorse (Fisheries Centre) and Land and Food Systems, and student researchers and analysts.

The UBC Sustainable Seafood Project got off the ground in January 2006. Directed studies student Anna Magera analysed seafood purchases at UBC and produced the first wave of recommendations. The three major food service providers at UBC — UBC Food Services, AMS Food and Beverage and Green College — embraced these ideas eagerly and removed five threatened seafood species from university menus and catering options: monkfish, snapper (rockfish), long-line caught tuna, sevruga caviar and swordfish.

The seafood program expanded in September 2006 to include project coordinator Jade Barnaby and two directed studies students, Laura Winter and Sarah Ballard. Their recommendations on the sustainability of shellfish, steelhead trout/ rainbow trout, and shrimp have been discussed encouragingly by the UBC Sustainable Seafood Project.

UBC is now a national leader in sourcing seafood sustainably, thanks to enthusiastic engagement by all participants, generous input from the seafood suppliers, and pilot funding by the Fisher Scientific Fund. Partners in the project hope that it will be used as a model by other institutions such as SFU and McGill, which have both have expressed interest in sourcing their seafood sustainably.

Nationally, issues of sustainable seafood are being addressed by a program called SeaChoice, which was coordinated by visiting UBC doctoral student Siân Morgan on behalf of five nongovernmental organizations across Canada (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Ecology Action Centre, Living Oceans Society and the Sierra Club of Canada). The program works at a variety of scales, producing scientific assessments of Canadian seafood based on national data, partnering with members of the supply line to mobilize changes in seafood procurement, and asking the government for changes in fishing policy that support sustainable extraction.

Seachoice offers two main products to help Canadians to choose their seafood responsibly: a seafood wallet card and a seafood database that explains why a particular product has been assigned its ranking of "Best Choice", "Some Concerns" or "Avoid". Email to request a wallet card, or for more information.

Save the Date!

UBC Alumni Affairs has set dates for its two biggest events of the year.

Alumni Weekend 2007: Friday, September 14 – Sunday, September 16, 2007
Alumni Achievement Dinner: Thursday, November 15, 2007

Keep an eye on these events calendars for up-to-date details:

Alumni Events Calendar
Live@UBC Calendar

Canada

Calgary

• Focus UBC
  April 3
  Save the date to meet UBC's new president, Professor Stephen Toope. Watch for details on our website.

Okanagan

Details on UBC Okanagan events can be found here. Alumni are welcome to attend events marked "public". Campus Map

• Okanagan Lakers: Provincial Volleyball Championships
  February 22 to 24 I UCB O Campus
  UBC Okanagan will welcome BC's top six men's and women's college volleyball teams as host of the BC Colleges’ Athletic Association (BCCAA) 2007 provincial volleyball championships. More info.
• UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble
  March 6, 12:30 pm I Foyer of the Student Services Centre
  The Symphonic Wind Ensemble recently returned from an exciting 10-day tour of Taiwan and Hong Kong — the first time a UBC ensemble has toured Asia. Now, Okanagan residents can experience this world-class student ensemble in a special concert at UBC Okanagan. Director: Martin Berinbaum.
• International Women's Day Events
  Women's Day Panel and Guest Speakers
  March 8, 1:00-4:00 pm I Arts Building, ARTS 103
  1:00-2:00 pm: Panel discussion
  2:15-3:00 pm: Presentations by student athletes
  3:15-4:00 pm: Guest speaker Lindsey Davis will talk about youth research in a presentation entitled Great Expectations: The Well-Being of Youth in a Globalized Society. Davis is a senior researcher with the specialist youth research division at Synovate, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms. Recent studies she has been involved in have explored youth and the “eco-conscience” and young women under stress.
  Women in the Global Community( with guest speaker Wendell Phillips)
  March 8, 4:30-6:00 pm I Student Services Centre Lecture Theatre, SSC 026
  Award-winning documentary photojournalist Wendell Phillips will share images he has made of women from around the world. Geographic areas featured will be from East Africa, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of China (bordering Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan), Polar Greenland, Post-tsunami recovery in Banda Aceh, Indonesia / Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Egypt, Venezuela, Philippines, Jamaica, Serbia Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Macedonia. No admission fee. Donations to the Kelowna Women's Resource Centre.
• World Water Day
  March 22
  The theme for 2007 is Coping with Water Scarcity. Faculty, Students and various organizations are organizing events to educate, provoke discussion, and produce ideas that could make a difference. For a line-up of events, check out UBC O's World Water Day blog
• Colloquium Gathering Women Researchers
  (series) 2:00 – 3:30 pm I Arts Building, Room 386
  Moderator: Dr. Naomi McPherson
  This colloquium of UBC Okanagan women researchers is a response to the UBC O Academic Plan that notes our responsibility to provide ample time for reflection and debate. The Colloquium gives us an opportunity to present our research and how it aligns with our teaching and provides a forum for a cross-fertilization of ideas, reflection and collaboration. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the exchange of ideas.
  Jennifer Gustar (English and Women's Studies)
  March 28
  Putting Me in My Place: Demons and Other Angels in Elizabeth Knox's 'French' Novels
• Minds and Music Series: Rehearsal of Handel's Israel in Egypt
  April 3, 6:00 - 9:00 pm I Student Services Centre Foyer
  The Okanagan festival Singers, Kelowna, and AURA Chamber Choir, Vernon, is presenting a joint rehearsal of Handel's Israel in Egypt. This rehearsal is a preview to the Okanagan Festival Singers' special 20 year anniversary concert.

Toronto

• 2007 UBC Toronto Great Trekker Alumni Luncheon
  March 26, 11:30 am-1:30 pm I Intercontinental Toronto Yorkville
  Join Professor Stephen Toope in conversation with UBC Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award winner Frank Iacobucci, BCom'61, LLB'62, LLD'89. Emceed by former Prime Minister and honorary chair John Turner, BA’49, LLD’94. More info. RSVP.

Vancouver

UBC Robson Square

UBC's downtown location (800 Robson St.) has plenty of interesting offerings for alumni and members of the public. Most events are free, but many require pre-registration or have limited seating. Please check the website for details.

• Retirement By Design (Or Default?) (UBC Life and Career Centre event)
  February 27, noon-1:00 pm
  Whether you’re dreaming of retirement, already retired or think the word itself should be retired, there are critical factors that shape successful transition into the “renewal years.” Learn how the RSP (Retirement Success Profile) Assessment offers a practical framework for pre-retirement reflection and action. Susan Curtis, MEd, RCC, CEAP, is a counsellor in private practice and has facilitated many workshops at the LCC. Info: Life and Career website or 604-822-8585 to register, seating is limited.
• Change As If Your Life Depended On It (UBC Life and Career Centre event)
  March 6, noon-1:00 pm
  Does change terrify or delight you? How can we consciously use change as an opportunity to make more meaningful choices in our lives and careers? Sally Halliday, MA, CCC, is a counsellor, facilitator and former journalist with CBC Radio who co-leads the popular LCC career transition course, Working on Purpose. Info: Life and Career website or 604-822-8585 to register, seating is limited.
• The Broadway Musical: Lisa Lambert and Don McKellar on The Drowsy Chaperone (artsWednesdays series)
  March 14, 6:00 pm
  Join Prof. Meryn Cadell (UBC Creative Writing) as he interviews two creators (Toronto artists Don McKellar and Lisa Lambert) of The Drowsy Chaperone, the first musical written and composed by Canadians to hit Broadway since 1980. The show focuses on a lonely theatre lover who chases away his blues by dropping the needle on his favourite record. The musical recently garnered five Tony Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for American theatre. Drop-ins welcome. Info: 604-822-5812
• Young Alumni: For the Love of Money: Financial Planning 101
  March 15, 6:30 pm
  Join three UBC young alumni presenters to learn how you can benefit from financial planning and basic investment strategies to make sound financial decisions based on your personal goals. With Jennie Luey, BScFN‘06 (Senior Associate, World Financial Group); Edward Leung, BASc‘04 (Senior Associate, World Financial Group); and Bernardo A. Arreaga, BSc‘04 (Account Manager, Vancity Credit Union). Info and RSVP

East Vancouver

• Talk of the Town Series with Moderator Hal Wake
  Admission is free but please pre-register by email or by phoning 604-827-3491
  Ishmael Beah
  March 28, 7:30-9:00 pm I John Oliver Secondary School, 530 East 41 Ave
  This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
  More info
  

Point Grey Campus

Campus Map

UBC Theatre
UBC Alumni receive $2 off the price of a regular adult ticket for productions staged at the Frederic Wood Theatre and the Telus Studio Theatre when you present your ACard in person at the box office.
For more information on upcoming events, please see the website.

• Mother Courage and her Children
  By Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Hare, Directed by Camyar Chai
  March 7 - 17, 7:30 pm I Frederic Wood Theatre
  One of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is a passionate and profound statement against war. Written in response to fascism and the outbreak of World War II, this “chronicle play” of the Thirty Years War follows Brecht’s most enduring creation, Courage, as she trails the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. Info
  

School of Music & Chan Centre

UBC's School of Music offers many free (and nearly free) events to the public. Pick from the
calendar of events.

For information on upcoming Chan Centre events and full event listings, please call 604-822-2697 or visit the website.

Museum of Anthropology

The MOA has extensive permanent collections as well as temporary exhibits. Please contact the museum or visit their website for more information: 604-822-5087 / info@moa.ubc.ca

• The Village is Tilting: Dancing AIDS in Malawi
  February 6 - September 3 (opening Reception February 6, 7:00 pm)
  For more than a thousand years the Chewa people of Malawi have reaffirmed their collective voice and identity through the masked spirit dances of Gule Wamkulu (The Great Dance). The community rituals of the Gule Wamkulu have continually re-adapted to changing forces and events - most recently the devastating AIDS pandemic. This exhibit incorporates masks, life-size photographs, video interviews, and dance footage to document the depth of awareness and cultural response to the AIDS pandemic by rural Malawians. Guest curated and assembled by Vancouver-based photographer Douglas Curran, who has documented the Chewa mask culture for more than ten years.
• Wheel: Overlays - An Installation by Edgar Heap of Birds
  March 20 - April 29 I Great Hall
  An installation created for MOA's Great Hall by renowned Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds, who lives and works in Oklahoma. Ten semi-transparent, 12-foot "tree forms" in a 40-foot circular arrangement. The vertical structure references the forked-tree supports used in Plains solstice lodges. Using text, acronyms, dates, maps, diagrams, and symbolic motifs, Heap of Birds describes and encodes Native American political history and experience.
  

Vancouver Institute

Vancouver Institute lectures are free of charge and take place in Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. For more information see the Vancouver Institute's full schedule.

• Globalization or Polarization: Where is the World Heading?
  (With Sir Jeremy Greenstock)
  February 24, 8:15 pm
  Sir Jeremy was a British diplomat from 1969 to 2004, serving in Washington DC, Paris, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. He is the former British Ambassador to the UN and Her Majesty's former Special Representative in Iraq, where he worked alongside Paul Bremer within the Coalition Provisional Authority. He left his position as deputy to Bremer in late March 2004, three months before the end of the CPA's term. Since then he has warned that the Coalition should be ready to acknowledge that it was leaving its goals unachieved, and pull out, rather than remain mired in an unwinnable struggle. Sir Jeremy wrote a book about his role in the Iraq war that was expected to be released in the Autumn of 2005. On November 27, 2005 The Times reported that the publication of his book had been barred by the Cabinet Office.
• Democracy: Fashions, Failures, and Fantasies (With Professor Philip Pettit)
  March 3, 8:15 pm
  Professor Pettit moved to Princeton from the Australian National University in 2002. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in philosophical psychology and social theory. His recent books include: The Common Mind; Republicanism; A Theory of Freedom; Rules, Reasons and Norms; and Penser en Societe. He is currently on leave as Senior Scholar in Ethics, in the E. J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of Humanities and holds honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland, the University of Crete and l'Universite de Montreal. Professor Pettit serves as special advisor to the government of Spain.
• Global Fisheries: Are the Gloom and Doom Justified? (With Professor Daniel Pauly)
  March 10, 2007 at 8:15 pm
  Dr. Pauly obtained his doctorate at Kiel University in Germany in 1979, and spent much of his early career at the Manila-based International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (now the WorldFish Center), developing and disseminating, throughout the tropics, fisheries stock assessment methods and databases suitable for data-sparse, developing-country settings, notably FishBase, the popular online encyclopedia of fishes. He joined UBC's Fisheries Centre as a Professor of Fisheries in 1994, and became its Director in 2003. Since 1999, he has been the Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Project, devoted to documenting fisheries impacts on marine ecosystems, and to developing and communicating mitigation policies. The concepts, software and methodologies he initiated and disseminated in over 500 contributions to the scientific literature are used throughout the world. Dr. Pauly has earned numerous scientific and conservation awards, notably the International Cosmos Prize from Japan in 2005, and the Volvo Environment Prize, from Sweden, in 2006.
• Can We Eliminate Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias?
  (With Dr. Patrick L. McGeer)
  March 17, 8:15 pm
  Dr. McGeer and his wife Dr. Edith McGeer are universally acknowledged as leading researchers on Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases and are among the world's top 100 most highly cited neuroscientists. In addition to research, Dr. Patrick McGeer also served as MLA and Cabinet Minister until 1986, and created the Open Learning Institute of BC. In 2004, Dr. McGeer was awarded the Henry Wisniewski prize given to the top Alzheimer's disease researcher. He has received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from UBC, the Medal of Service from the Cam Coady Foundation, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Prize from the University of Toronto, and a lifetime achievement award from the Science Council of BC. Dr. McGeer was appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002.

Faculty of Arts Events

• Translating the ancient Chinese classic Zhuang Zi
  March 21, 7:00 pm I Asian Centre Auditorium
  Distinguished Visiting Professor Richard Lynn will speak on translating the ancient Chinese classic Zhuang Zi. A reception with refreshments will begin at 6:30 pm. For more information, please call 604-822-0019.
• Geography, Trade and Development?
  March 21, 3:30 pm I Rm.212, Geography Building
  With Eric Sheppard from the University of Minnesota
• Becoming Aboriginal:
  The Secret History of the Potato on the Northwest Coast, 1770-1850
  March 22, 11:30 am -1:30 pm I ANSO 205
  With Dr. Coll Thrush (History). In 1825, French gastronome Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." His statement came at a time when ideas about the connections between people and their environments were hardening into hierarchies that linked race to nature, and the apparent equation between food and culture was part of this development. However, on the Northwest Coast of North America, a historical process was underway which challenged European notions of culinary determinism.

Athletics

• Thunderbird Basketball
  February 23,24, 25 I War Memorial Gym
  Playoff action. Visit the website for game times.
• Spring Sports Camps
  UBC Sport Camps has expanded its youth programs to include Spring Break Camps! On offer are tennis, soccer and multi-sport camps, as well as an exciting Adventures Abound camp, during the week of March 19-23. For more information, see the website.
  

Miscellaneous

• Faculty of Education celebrates 50 Years
  Everyone is welcome to attend the following events:
  Opening Ceremony: Friday, March 30, 4:00-7:30 pm, Scarfe foyer and 100, 2125 Main Mall
  Public Forum: The World We Have, The World We Want: Education for an Enduring Future Saturday, March 31, 2:00-4:00 pm, Scarfe 100, 2125 Main Mall
  10k/5k Run and 2k Walk for Education: Sunday, April 1, 9:00-noon, Scarfe and Pacific Spirit Park. For further events and registration details, please see the website.
  
• Faculty of Medicine Events
  March 10: The Annual Medical Ball
  March 17: Dash for Docs 5/10-km run
  March 24: The Annual Medical Student Spring Gala
  For more information on these events see the newly re-designed UBC Medical Alumni website
• Public Forum on Managing Forgetfulness and Aging
  (Sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre)
  March 12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm I Life Sciences Centre
  Three of Canada's top brain researchers will speak on memory loss and how it can be managed at a free public symposium. Drs. Max Cynader, Howard Feldman, and Jonathan Schooler, all from UBC's Brain Research Centre, will join media doctor Art Hister, host of Canada's longest running health radio show and emcee of the symposium, to discuss disorders of the aging brain, strategies to help improve memory, and how to age successfully. For more information and to RSVP, please see the website or call 604-827-5831.
• Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age of Transition
  (A book by author Carol A. Hrvol Flores)
  March 16, 7:30 pm I Cecil Green Park House, 6251 Cecil Green Park Rd.
  A Vancouver Heritage Foundation lecture With Carol A. Hrvol Flores (in collaboration with the UBC Architectural Program and Dr Sherry McKay). One of the 19th century's most inventive, multi-faceted designers, Owen Jones' versatility in architecture and all the decorative arts is comparable to that of Robert Adam in the 18th century, and Frank Lloyd Wright in the 20th. Most widely known as the creator of the Grammar of Ornament, an unprecedented accomplishment in the world of illustrated color-plate publishing, Owen Jones was also a remarkable furniture, fabric, and wallpaper designer, as well as an architect, and draftsman. For more information and to purchase tickets ($12), please call 604-264-.9642 or visit the Vancouver Heritage Foundation website.
• Photographic Meaning in the Vietnam War
  March 22, 6:30-7:30 pm I Lasserre 104, 6333 Memorial Road
  Julian Stallabrass is Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He lectures in modern and contemporary art, including postwar British art, the history of photography and new media art. He is now working on a book about the photography, politics and memory and his J C-I lecture will air a portion of that research. Info: 604-822-3281

International

United States

• All Canadian Universities Hockey Night: Bruins v Canadiens (Boston)
  March 3, 7:00 - 11:00 pm I TD BankNorth Garden followed by The Four's Restaurant & Sports Bar
  Organized by the McGill Alumni Association of Boston. Join your fellow UBC alumni and grads from other Canadian universities for Hockey Night in Boston. With one of the most storied rivalries in professional sports, a match between the Bruins v Habs in the TD BankNorth Garden is always a fantastic experience! Mcgill has obtained a block of tickets so that all participants can sit together and reap the benefits of a group discount on tickets. These tickets are available at a cost of $42 USD through the McGill Alumni Association of Boston. Please purchase your tickets early, as demand for tickets will likely be high. After the game, there will be an informal gathering at the Four's Restaurant and Sports Bar, 166 Can Street (cross street: Causeway ST) in the upstairs area. To purchase your tickets by mail: send a self-addressed stamped envelope along with your check for $42 per ticket, payable to the McGill Alumni Association of Boston, tot he following address: The McGill Alumni Association of Boston c/0 Debbie Levy, Treasurer 34 High Street Newton, MA 02464-1232 Please include an email address or phone number in case they need to contact you. To purhcase your tickets through Paypal: send $45 per ticket to boston.alumni@mcgill.ca. For more information, please contact Chika Kakutani.
• Palm Springs 2nd Annual CN Desert Classic
  Alumni Dinner & Dance
  March 19, 5:00 - 11:00 pm I Bermuda Dunes Country Club
  With opening remarks from Premier Gordon Campbell, entertainment from soprano Melissa Bencic (UBC 2001), and live auction with Former Premier Bill Vander Zalm. Live band: Rodeo Drive. $100 per person. For more info, please contact Christina Gray.
  Shot Gun Golf
  March 20 I Bermuda Dunes Country Club
  10:00 am: Complimentary Short Game Instruction, 12:30 pm: Shot Gun Start Bermuda Dunes Golf Club. Prize presentation and drinks at Dunes Resort Pool.
  For more info, please contact Christina Gray.