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on humansecuritv
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While the report will commission new research in a number of‘
violence among goals
areas, a major objective will be to
“translate”academicresearchto
by Michelle Cook staff writer
make it more accessibleto thepolicy
community - including non-govMAPPING T H E INCIDENCE, severity
ernmental organizations (NGOS) and consequencesof global violence and to educators, the media and
will be the major focusof UBC’S new the interestedpublic.
Centre for Human Security.
After three years worlungat the
Part of the Liu Centre for the U N as Kofi Annan’s strategic planStudy of Global Issues, one of the ning director, Mack says he was
centre’s major goalswill be the pro- surprised at how little influence
duction of an annual Human
Secu- academic research hadon thepolrity Report, modelled in part on
icy community.
the United Nations’ high
profile
“This is mostly becauseofficials
Human Development Report.
rarely seethe findings that conflict
“The Liu Centre’s strong stress on researchers produce, let alone the
interdisciplinaryresearch and the
data on which they are based,” he
fact that itsdirector, Lloyd Axworthy, says. “Few U N diplomats, for exampioneered the conceptof human se- ple, believed that there had been a
TI E TH I S A workshop on the ancient a r t oChinese
f
knot tying willbe among the attractions featured atthe Lunar
curity as Canada’s foreign minister, largeupsurge of ethnicconflict
New Year Festival Feb. 13 in the C. K. Choi building. Knot artistDaisy Lee will display her work and offer a one-hour
makes it an ideal place to focus on around the world in the 1990s. In
workshop from I I to noon and I - 2 p.m. Other highlightso f t h e festival, which takes place from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p,m,
human securityissues,” saysthe cen- fact the numberof armed conflicts
include a craftssale, lion, Indonesian and Korean mask dancing and exotic food. For more information, call
tre’s director, Andrew Mack.
declined by more than 35 percent.
604-822-4688.
“The traditionalgoal of national Findingout why thisreduction
security has been to protect the
took placewill help us understand
physical integrity of states, but se- how to reduce global violence in
cure states do not
necessarily mean the future.”
secure citizens. Indeed,for most of
Too often, Mack says, governthe 20th century far more people
ments andN G O S design policies for
were killed by their own governpreventing violence without access
ments than by foreign armies.”
to thebest research on prevention.
Protecting states from external
“It’sa bitlike a prescribing medattack by other statesis decreasing icine without diagnosis,”
he says.
in relevance in a world wheremore
The first reportis scheduled for
than go per centof armed conflicts releasein 2003. The centre will
take place within countries, not
work in partnership with institutions worldwide, including the deResearch excellence rewarded by national panel ofpeers centre and the second in theworld between them,he adds.
focused on interdisciplinary devel- In addition to mapping global veloping world,to produceit.
R E S E A R C H E R S AT UBC and its affil(SCI)
violence - criminal aswell as poWith C F I funding of almost $13 opment of spinal cord injury
Mack comes to U B C from Hariated teaching hospitals received million, the InternationalCollabo- therapies.
litical - the report will chart poli- vard University’s Program on Hualmost $76 million in infrastruc- ration
“This fundingallows us to build cy responses to that violence - manitarian Policy. Prior to joining
Repair
on Discoveries
ture
research
funding
for 16 (ICORD) Centre- to be built at a leading-edge facility. We antici- from preventive diplomacy misthe U N in 1998 he held the chair in
projects - the largestamount
- pate that this will become one of sions to strategies for addressing
VancouverGeneralHospital
International Relations at the
Ausawarded - from the Canada Foun- will be the first Canadian research see Innovation page2
the root causes
of violence.
tralian National University.
dation for Innovation ( C F I ) in a recent competition.
“There is no substitute
for excellence, that’s what this all
is about,”
says U B C President Martha Piper.
“This is not regional distribution.
This is pure research reviewed by Study shows seasonal moods affect markets worldwide
Levi and co-authorsLisa Kramer, like seasonal changes, that affect
the experts in the
field.”
a formerU B C post doctoral student people,” Levi explains. “The marThe total funding for B.C. will by Lisa Miguez Commerce;
suffering from even mild depres- now teaching at the University of ket is affected by people’s animal
generate significant new knowlMichelle Cook staff writer
sion tend to take fewer risks, and Toronto,andMarkKamstra,an
feelings.”
edge that will benefit students, the
are less likely to buy highly priced economist at the Federal Reserve
Levi says that while the study
economy andsociety, Piper adds.
W I N T E R BLUES may be bad for us
stock says one of the paper’s co-au- Bank of Atlanta, also found that
won’t help those hoping to make
C F I made a Canada-wide invest- but not for the return on our port- thors Prof. Maurice Levi.
markets located farther away from money off theirbluemoods,it
ment of $588 million to support in- folios, according to research conOn the opposite end
of the scale, theequatorexperiencedgreater
overturns the traditional
view that
frastructure projects in Canadian ducted recently in the Faculty of stock markets experience
lower re- fluctuations from theSAD effect.
human behaviour doesn’t play a
universities,
colleges,
hospitals
Commerce and Business Adminis- turns during the long, bright days This was true for both markets big role in stock marketanalysis.
and not-for-profit research institu- tration.
of summer.
in the northern and southern hem- Levi’s search tofind a systemattions.
The study, called Winter Blues:
The study surveyed annual data ispheres,althoughthesouthern
ic link between SAD and the stock
“ThisisanextraordinaryacA SAD Stock Market Cycle, shows from stockexchangeslocated
at markets, where the seasons are remarket builds on earlier research
complishment and the researchers thatseasonalaffectivedisorder
various latitudes aroundthe world. versed,react six months out of he and his colleagues did to link
deserve a great deal of credit for (SAD) brought on by short, dark The data produced anoverwhelm- phase.
thechangetodaylightsavings
theircreativity
and excellence,” daysisassociatedwithhigher
ingamount of evidencelinking
“Basically,whether people are
in time to market performance.
Levi’s
says IndiraSamarasekera, UBC’S stock market returns.
stock returns to the amount
of day- a good or bad mood it affects the paper on the topic, “Losing Sleep
vice-president, Research.
Thereason? People whoare
light through the course
of the year. stock market and there are things,see Higher returns page2
Annual report on global
UBc
earns lion’s share
of innovation funding
Short winterdays mean higher returns, researchers say
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tres, will be located at theVancou- cility in the world to link scholars,
ver General Hospital site so that First Nations communities and research museums. It will be located in
newknowledgecanberapidly
Continuedffom pageI
renovated
space at MOA.
into
new
therapies.
al Health Authority,are partnersin translated
“This
facility
will accelerate the
More than 300 Vancouver-based
the worlds premier spinal cord in-the centre.
pace
of
museum
research,”says
“This is the beginning of mynew researchers as well as up to12 visjury centres,” says John Steeves,
MOA
director. “The
Ruth
Phillips,
will share
ICORD’S principal investigator and
dream,” says Hansen. “Mostofwhat itingresearchteams
potential
for
technology
to support
director of the C O R D research we know about spinal cord injury equipment and facilities to comcollaborative
research
is
enormous
group atU B C since 1995.
has been discovered in the last 10 plete programs that could not be
and
critical
where
research
partners
achieved
by
a
single
discipline.
The concept for the centre was years. With today’s knowledge and
are
geographically
dispersed
and
“The
centre
represents
what
can
initiated by the Vancouver-based technology, the time is right to get
knowledge
systems
are
culturally
be
achieved
through
partnerships
Rick Hansen Institute( R H I ) , an or- to work on new cures and treatganization that aims to accelerate ments. We believe it is possible to that bring togetherworld-class sci- distinct.”
TheReciprocalResearchNetentists, physicians, patients and
the discovery of a curefor SCI. The walk away froma spinal injury.”
work
will link North American recommunity
leaders
towards
a
R H I and Vancouver General HospiThe new building, comprising
searchers
and collections via an
common
goal
of
discovery
through
tal, a partof the Vancouver Coast- approximately 7,000 square meresearch,” says Philip Hassen, C E O electronic network that will provide access to artifacts, images and
of the Vancouver Coastal Health
Authority. “Our collaboration with knowledge.
u n c and the RickHansen Institute Interdisciplinary investigations
offers immense capacity for LIS to will look at material andvisual culmobilize resources in developing ture,languageandoralhistory
museology and repatriation, and
the best treatments.”
unc’s Museum of Anthropolosgy new technology and intellectual
( M O A ) Interdisciplinary Research Fa- property.
$1000
Four research suites are planned
cility received funding of more than
$17 million. It will be the first such fa- in renovated areasof the museum.
SUBJECT:
(‘THE
CREATIVE
AND
They will focus on ethnology, archeology, community research and
RESPONSIBLE
USEO F FREEDOM”
research services.
Other C F I funded projects inChoose your own focus.e.g. I.iteraturc, Art, Capitalism,
clude a Centrefor Blood Research,
I’hilosophy, the Environment, Interpersonal Relations.
Continuedj-om pageI
an Integrated Biodiversity Laborain the Market: the Daylight Saving tory and a Centrefor Research on
Economics. History, etc.
Anomaly,” was recently published
Childhood Diabetes.
Eligibility: Open to third- and fourth-year undergraduate
by the American Economic Review.
The C F I support represents 40
Levi became interestedin pursu- per cent of required funding. U B C
and graduate studentsof U H C and affiliated theological
ing research in the area of behav- researchers will apply to the procolleges.
ioural finance five years ago after vincial government for amatching
reading the book Sleep Thieves by 40 per cent. The remaining supEntries rnust he submitted on or beforeFriday, May 31. 2 0 0 2
UBC
Psychology Prof. Stanley port will come from private sourcPrize awarded: Friday, Sept. 27, 2002
Coren. In it, Coren links an increase es and industry.
in automobile accidents anda variAn independent corporation esApplication forms may he picked u p Monday to Friday,
ety of other costly eventsto chang- tablished by the federalgovern1oa.m.-4 p.m. at St. Mark‘s College, 5935 lona Drive. at t h e
es indaylight savings time.
ment in1997, C F I is responsible for
campus, M - F , 1oam-4pm.
extreme northeast corner ofthe
a budgetof $3.15 billion.
A complete listing of projects
can be found at Cthe
F I Web siteat
www.innovation.ca.
Innovation funding
PRIZE:
Higher returns
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Centre investigates
lung, heart diGase
Facility pools experts and
says Dr. Del Dorscheid, one of the
centre’s researchers whois also an
resources tofind answers
intensive care physician. He and
Pare specializein asthma research,
trying to better understand causes
by Hilary Thornson staff writer
of the chronic inflammation that
scars the airways and leads to airA L L I S O N B A N T I N G had no reason
flow obstruction.
to
know
about
lung
disease
There are currently 23 principal
researchinVancouveruntillast
investigators at the centre and a tospring.
That’s when a near-fatalasthma tal staff of155 that comprises reattack put her in St. Paul’s Hospi- searchassociates,undergraduate,
tal’s intensive care unit where she graduate and co-op students, techniwas treated by members of the cians and post-doctoralfellows. Disciplines range from virologyto comicAwuRE Centre.
The $17-million researchcentre - putational biology and pathology.
National and internationalcollabone of only a handfulof similar centres in North America - is based in orations include investigations into Rehabilitation Sciences researchers Kim Keays (left) andAsst. Prof. JaniceEng show study participant Tracy Barber
Providence Health Care
and is a part- viruses as a causeof asthma, emphy- how the KinCom isokinetic dynamometermeasures and displays data on muscle strength. The equlpment, along with
nership of St. Paul’sHospital, the sema and heart failure as well as a balance-testingmachine, will be used in a study that examines how muscles recover from prolonged weightlessness.
Vancouver Hospital and Health Sci- studies aimedat reducing the accel- Richard Lam photo
erated hardeningof the arteries that
ences Centreand UBC.
follows heart transplantation.
Co-directed byDr. BruceMcFormer
vice-president,
ReManus and Dr. Peter Pare, the centre seeksto find curesfor the heart, search,at St. Paul’s, Dr. James
blood vessel and lungdiseases that Hogg, whose vision helped create
each year kill 55 per cent more Ca- icAPTuRE, is part of a major
J
nadians thanall cancers combined. project that investigates why some
An asthma sufferer for the last 22 lifetime smokers develop lung dis- Rehabilitation Sciences researchers will seekto discover
but most patients will have been
healthy.
years, Banting wassitting in the hos- ease and others remain
immobilizedbecause of broken
pital’s emergency ward awaiting help “I feel tremendously privileged how musclesrecover after weightlessness and lack of use legs or torn Achilles tendons at the
for a bad attack.She left the hospital and excited to be engaged with
heel. The remaining participants
vehicleaccidentswhere
after a life-threatening episode that this unique combinationof people S K I E R S , H I K E R S andastronautsmotor
will form the control group.
says
McManus may all benefit from an investiga- there are bone fractures.”
left her nearlyunconscious and ona and resources,”
Rate of muscle recovery will be
who is also a Canadian Institutes tionlaunchedrecently by U B C ReMore than 40 people will take assessed for all 40 participants
respirator forthree weeks.
habilitationSciencesresearchers.
partinthethree-yearcontrolled
“My understanding of this dis- of Health Research director.
while they engage in a standardRecent funding from the CanaThefirststudy of itskind inclinicalstudy,ajoint
life science ized physiotherapy program that
easehaschanged,”says
the 47Foundation
for Innovation NorthAmerica,itaimsto discover project of the Canadian Space
year-old. “I never thought that it da
can last from six weeks to three
meant the existing infrastructure how wasted and weakened musAgency, Vancouver General Hospicould kill me.”
months. Exercises includeknee
( V G H ) and U B C .
Physicians, nurses and respira- of the 25-year-old McDonald Re- cles recover from prolonged peri- tal
and ankle movements, weight
liftsearch Laboratories, a part of St. ods of weightlessness.
tory therapists helped to educate
MacIntyre
willworking
be with
ing, balancing moves and aerobic
Banting about asthma and devel- Paul’s Hospital, could be renewed
“Our study findings have signifi- co-investigators Asst. Prof. Janice exercise.
and expandedby 1,800square me- cant implications for how we treat Eng and Asst. Prof. Darlene Redenop an action plan that includes
Testing
patients’
muscle
self-monitoring of lung function. tres to createicAPTuRE.
astronauts
returning
to
Earth
bach,
both
experts
in
physical strength, fatigue and balance will
Technology at the centrewill in- from the international space sta- therapy at the School
“I wouldn’t be here without the
of Rehabilitake place at the Rehabilitation
knowledge that those doctors and clude a digital electron microscope tion,”saysprincipalinvestigatortationSciences.
ResearchLaboratory of the G F
to examine tissue and
cells at enor- DonnaMacIntryre,anassociate
Half of thestudyparticipants
nurses have,” she says.
Strong Rehabilitation Centre using
Banting was treated withan ex- mous magnification and an atomic professor of Physical Therapy. “Re- are patients who have been nona machine that resembles an airactivi- sults will alsoinfluencetherapiesweightbearing
perimental helium therapy in ad- force microscope to map the
for at leastsix
plane cockpit and provides video
for injuries from skiing, hiking or weeks. Types
of injury will vary, displays of muscle strength. Andition to conventional treatment, ties of living cells.
other machine tests patients’
ability to maintain balance.
“The body’s muscles are microscopically damaged when they are
not exposed togravity and forced
to carry the body’s weight. This
can happen whenyou are confined
but
one
admitted
to
dieting
at
I
to bed, use crutches to keep
a broBodies change but image concerns
don’t, study suggests
some pointin their lives.
ken leg off the ground or spend
by Michelle Cook staff writer
Hurd Clarke says that despite
lengthyperiodsin
space,”says
socialclasses,maritalstatuses,
MacIntyre.
and levels of health to determine women’s continued concern with
If you think your worries about their feelings about their appear- their appearance in later life, her
Scientists
estimate
that
the
weight and wrinkles will disappear ance, agingand what was most im-findings
offer
some
hope
for
body’s muscles are damaged after
younger generationsof women.
30 days of bed rest with muscle
with thewisdom
of age think portant about theirbodies.
again, says U B C researcher Laura
“Olderwomentendtoprefer
mass decliningby eight percent in
She found that older women,
the thigh and four to five per cent
Hurd Clarke.
like younger women, still express more rounded female figures than
In a recent study of women aged displeasure with their bodies and the current beauty standards alin the calf. There can be a 20 per
say that a beauti60-92, Hurd Clarke found
that all still their weight but also with declin- low. They tend to
cent decrease in leg strength after
ful woman is more soft and roundvoiced concerns over appearance ing health andphysical abilities.
only two weeks of bed rest.
and body imagewell into laterlife.
Muscle biopsies from astronauts
As they experience health prob- edthan today’s fashionmodels
show some loss of muscle mass af“I think that a lot of people as- lems, they reprioritize what’s im- and movie stars,” Hurdsays.
With
baby
boomers
getting
sume thatwhen we get older sud- portant to them,Hurd Clarke says,
ter five days of weightlessness with
denly, magically we’ll become wise butthey nevercompletelyshed
ready to retire soon and greater
significant damage after11 days.
Patients will also be treated in
aboutbody
image,”says
Hurd their body image concerns and thatnumbers of older adultsin society, Researcher Laura Hurd Clarke
the physiotherapy department at
shethinksconcepts
of female
Clarke,aCanadianInstitutes
of creates a complex and interesting
Currently, Hurd Clarke is look- V G H . Researchers will conduct biHealth Research post-doctoral fel- tension between beautyand health. beauty and negative assessments
about older women’s appearance ingfor womenaged 50-90 who ochemical blood testing and anallow in the School of Social Work
Although many of the women
ysis to determine extent
of muscle
are going to be increasingly chal- married for the second or third
and Family Studies.“Wethink
dismissedextremelythinolder
time after age 50 (legally or com- injuryandinflammationatthe
we’ll become less concerned about women as “scrawny” and the thin lenged.
study on older muscle injury lab at the School of
In future, Hurd Clarke hopes to mon law)fora
our appearance.I don’t think that’s “Ally McBeal” beauty ideals being
women and remarriage.To partic- Rehabilitation Sciences. Analysis
realistic.”
promoted to younger women to- conduct a similar age and body
Hurd
Clarke
interviewed
22
day, almost all still expressed a de- image study with men to explore ipate, call 604-822-2589 or e-mail of study resultswill also take place
women with different ethnicities, sire to lose weight themselves. All their body image-age tensions.
lcclarke@interchange.ubc.ca
at U B C .
Studv flexes muscles
Older women think age does witheryou
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Centering Prayer Intensive. Cynthia
Bourgeault. VST level 1 1 1 from loamgpm. $220;$200 (team); $110 (senior)
To register visit www.vst.edu or call
604-822-9815.
Pharmacology And
Toxicology Seminar Series
Molecular Signalling Pathways For
Central Synaptic Plasticity. I R C #3 at
zpm. Call 604-822-2343
IAM-PIMS Seminar
Signal Processing In Cellular Regulatory Networks. Adam Arkin, Bioengineering, u of California, Berkeley. L S K
301 from 3-4pm. Refreshmentsat
2:qopm in L S K 306. To register visit
www.ian.ubc.ca. E-mail iam@
iam.ubc.ca or call 604-822-4584.
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SATURDAY,FEB.23
Concert
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Vladimir Spivakov,conductor, violin.
Chan Centre at 8pm.Admission $42/
32; students $zg.50/$22.50; seniors
$40/$28.50. Call Ticketmaster at604280-3311or Chan Centre
604-822-2697.
Vancouver Institute Lecture
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Participants Needed
Seminar
Structural And Functional Studies Of
The PhotosyntheticBacterium R.
Sphaeroids Reaction Centre H . Ali
Tehrani. Wesbrook loo from 12:301:3opm.Call 604-822-3306.
Stressed Clerical Workers - we know
you’re out there. We need your input
for our study. Sharing yourstory can
help make a differenceand can earn
you a small gift. Call 604-822-9399.
Laser Hair Removal
Require volunteers for two laser hair
removal trials. If you are interested,
please contact Dr.Jerry Shapiro the
U B C Division of Dermatology E-mail
etan@vanhosp.bc.ca. Call
604-875-4747,
John G . Moffatt Lecture
Molecules That Do Things: Asymmetric SynthesisWith Chiral MetalCornplexes. David Evans, Chemistry,
Harvard u. Chemistry 8-250 from
12:45-1:45pm.Refreshments at
12:3oprn. Call 604-822-3341.
I A M ColloquiaSeminar
Seminar OBSTso6
Flag Flapping, Rivulet Flow And
Partial Singular lntegrodifferential
Equation. Alistair Fitt, u of
Southhampton. L S K 301 from 3-4pm.
Refreshments served2:qopm in
L S K 306. To register visit www.iam.
ubc.ca: E-mail iam@iam.ubc.caor
call 604-822-4584.
Acute Effects Of Ovarian SteroidsOn
Insulin Lipids And Lipoproteins In
Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Dr. Anthony Cheung, BC’S
Women’s Hosp. zN35 from ~ - 3 p m .
Call 604-875-3108.
The Medieval Magdalen. Katherine
Jansen, Catholic u of America. B U T O
599 from 4:30-6pm. E-mail
mvessey@interchange.ubc.ca or call
604-822-4095.
Orthopedic GrandRounds Lecture
Applied EthicsColloquiumSeries
Science And Society Lecture
Positive Space
Resource People
Wanted
Procreative Freedom And Enhancement. Nicholas Agar, Philosophy.
U V I C . Angus 213 from ~ - 4 p mCall
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604-822-8625.
The Scope Of Experiment:
Microcosms Microhistories and
Models. Simon Schaffer, History and
Philosophy of Science, Cambridge u .
Green College at 7:3opm. Call 604822-1878.
Professors Emeritii
Sponsored Lecture
The Aging Brain. Dr. Max S. Cynader,
Brain Research Centre. Cecil Green at
zpm. Refreshments at 1:15pm. Call
604-822-3112.
Help make U B C a positive space for its
lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer,transgendered, andtwo-spirited community.
Workshops for volunteer resource
people will be offered in February. To
register or for more information,
e-mail positive.space@ubc.caor visit
www.positivespace.ubc.ca. Call
604-822-4859.
TUESDAY,FEB.
12
CRC Literature/Christianity
And Culture Lecture
W E D N E S D A Y ,F E B .
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TBA. VGH, Eye Care Centre Aud. from
7-Sam. Call 604-875-4192
Green College Special Lecture
Ras Regulation Of Signalling
Pathways Involved In Cell Survival
And Proliferation. Julian Downward,
Imperial CancerResearch Fund, U K .
Wesbrook loo from 12:30-1:30prn.
Call 604-822-3308.
The Culture Of Displacement And
The QuestionsOf Identity. Fernando
de Toro, Dean, Graduate Studies, u of
Manitoba. Green College at 5pm. Call
604-822-1878.
Green College Speaker Series
Lecture
FRIDAY,FEB.
When The BottomLine Is The Party
Line: Media And Elusive Democracy
In China. Yuezhl Zhao, School of
Communication, SFU. Green College
at 5pm. Reception,Coach House
from 6-6:30pm. Call 604-822-1878.
The Prince Of Wales And The First
Nations: Unsettled Arts In An Age Of
Settlement. Ruth Phillips, MOA. Green
College at 7:3opm. Call 604-822-1878.
Active LivingAdult Hockey
Conference
Fundamentals For Basic Or
Advanced Basic Level Players.
Winter Sports Centre104. Continues
to Mar. 24. For times call
604-822-3688.
Transculturalisms Canada: Cultural
Mingling: Between Among Within
Cultures. Green College. Continues to
Feb 24. To register e-mailJoanna
Clarke at joclarke@
interchange.ubc.ca.
Instrumental Collegium Musicum.
Music Recital Hall at 8pm.Call 604822-5574.
Panel Discussion
Sex and Sade. Emily Carr Institute at
Granville Island from 7:3o-gpm.
Refreshments. Call 604-822-4253.
Reading
Poetic Persuasions. Christy
Ann
Conlin; Kevin Chong. Green College
at 8pm.Call 604-822-1878.
W E D N E S D A Y , F E B . 13
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14
Concert
Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Chan Centre at12 noon. Call 604822-5574.
UBC
Lecture in Science Studies
The Social History Of Time Machines.
Simon Schaffer, History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge. Buchanan
A-102 from 12 noon-lpm. Call 604822-3292.
Seminar
Social Support And Heart Disease. Dr.
Wolfgang Linden. Library Processing
Centre 424 at 12:3opm.Call
604-822-9205.
Young Alumni Seminar
Lecture
For The Love Of Money. Neil
Anderson, investmentadviser,
HSBC. Robson Square c-680 from
7:3o-gam. $10. Continental breakfast.
To register visit www.alumni.ubc.ca
or call 604-822-3313.
What’s That Smell? Queer Subcultures In The 1990s.Judith Halberstam, Literature, uc San Diego. Green
College Coach House from3-4:15pm.
Reception to follow a t Graham House.
Call 604-822-4253.
Identification And Characteristics Of
Human HeartEpithelial Stem Cells.
Dr. Joanne Emerman, Anatomy. BC’S
Women’s Hosp. zN35 from ~-3prn.
Call 604-875-3108.
Participants Needed
Is
VST Lecture Series
Jesus’ ParablesAs Interruptions Of
Violence. Rev. Harry Maier. VST
Epiphany Chapel from 5:30-7:30pm.
Call 604-822-9815.
Andrea Fraser. 555 Hamilton St. Continues to March 3. Wednesday
through Sunday, 12-5pm.Call 604822-2759.
Seminar OBSTso6
Seminar
Concert
Morris And Helen Belkin
Satellite Art Gallery
T H U R S D A Y ,F E B .
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Lecture
STAR Breast Cancer
Prevention Study
Signal Transduction Pathways Affecting The Transcriptional Coactivator
Alpha NAC. Dr. Rene St.-Arnaud,
Shriner’s Hospital for Children, Montreal. Wesbrook 201 at 4pm. Call 604822-8764.
Volunteers are needed to participate
in a breast cancerprevention trial
being conducted atU B C Hospital.
Two drugs, Raloxifene (Evista) and
Tamoxifen, are being studied to see
which worksbetter at preventing
Friday Grand Rounds Lecture
Does Experiment Trump
Observation? Comparing The
Efficacy And Effectiveness Of
Therapy. Adrian Levy, Health Care
and Epidemiology. Mather 253 from
9-loam.Call604-822-2772.
The Adult Development Lab at U B C is
looking for adults interested involunteering for (a) a focus group study
looking at whatit means tobe your
age today and/or(b) studies onvisual
memory andvisual abilities. Call Pam
at 604-822-5250 for more information.
Fisheries Centre Weekly Seminar
Climate-Induced Variation In
Survival Of Salmonids On The West
Coast Of North America During
Fresh Water And Marine Life Stages.
Bruce Ward, Donald McCubbing,InStream Fisheries Consultants,
Vancouver: David Welch, Fisheries
and Oceans Canada,Nanaimo. Hut
B8, Ralf Yourque Room from nam12:30pm. Call 604-822-2731.
Religion LiteratureAnd Art
Program Lecture
Metaphysics And Art. Professor Piotr
Jaroszynski, Lublin Catholic U: Ives R.
Simon, Simon Institute. BUTO 599
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about your experience withhealth
care professionals? We are conducting astudy of patient perceptions
about helpful and unhelpful communications in fibromyalgia. In order to
learn more about what makes communication effective, we are asking
individuals who have had Type 2 Diabetes for at least five years to participate in our study. Participation will
involve one or two interviews in a
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find these word games a lotof fun.
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with your childat all times. If you (or
someone you know) mightbe interested in bringing
your child for a30minute visit to our research
playroom, pleasecontact Dr. Hall’s
Language DevelopmentCentre at
604-822-9294.
Participants Wanted
Are you a postmenopausal woman
with Type Two diabetes interestedin
beginning an exercise program? St.
Paul’s Hospital HealthyHeart Program and Diabetes Centre are recruiting participants, who do not smokeor
use insulin, for a research projecton
the effect of exercise on diabetesfor
women. Call Darcye Cuff
604-806-8601.
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adult twin? We are studying the
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completing some questionnaires and
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velopment studies. If you are interested in bringing yourbaby for a
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Researchers at thePsychology Dept.
are conductinga study examining
sexual functioning in women. The
aim of this studyis to help women
who experience sexualdifficulties.
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All participants will receive a detailed
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We are looking forward t o
Imagine UBC 2002
by LaurieTownsend M u s i c
and
larger
musical
community
are
mourning the passing of professors emeritii Elliot Weisgarber and
Cortland Hultberg and a promising young alumnus, Wallace Leung.
Weisgarber (Dec. 5, 1919 - Dec.
31,2001) and Hultberg (Sept.5,1931
-Jan. 3, 2002) joined the Dept. of
Music in 1959-60 as U B C was just
beginningtograntdegreesin
Music.
Elliot Weisgarber was a clarinetist, composer and ethnomusicologist. His study of Japanese music
and in particular of the shakuhachi, a traditional bamboo flute,
eventually led U B C to offer courses
in ethnomusicology, oneof the areas for which the school is now
recognized internationally.
His students includeWes Foster,
now principal clarinet of the Vancouver Symphonyand well-known
Canadian
composers
Michael
Conway Baker, NeilCurrie and Frederick Schipizky.
Choosing a different path in an
era of sometimes dissonant experimentation, Weisgarber’s compositions strove for beauty andclarity.
His cheerful personalityand interest in world travels were also reflected in his music.
Weisgarberwasafriend
and
mentor tomany colleaguesand was
involved in music making
at all levels. He wrote studies for clarinet,
spent a term conducting theVancouver Youth Orchestraand befriended conductor Clyde Mitchell
and his West Coast Symphony. At
82,he still had an opera he wanted
to write when his congestive heart
failure condition worsened late in
T H E U E C SCHOOI. OF M U S I C
Elliot Welsgarber, 1919-2001
Cortland Hultberg, 1931-2002
Those eyebrowsrising or falling
could tell his choir members, theoryandcompositionstudents
alike his approval or disappointment in their efforts.
Hundreds of his students now
teach in classrooms and sing in
choirs. Some have become prominent composers such as Alexina
Louie, Barry Truax, Lloyd Burritt
and Robert Pritchard. Others work
in the recording industry or, like
MornaEdmonsonandRamona
Luengen, have gone on to direct
2001.
award-winning choirsof their own.
Cortland Hultberg taught theo- None will forget the school spirit
ry and composition, established
andfungenerated
by Cortland
the ElectronicMusicStudio
in Hultberg and his ChamberSingers
1965 and managed the audio re- annualChristmasconcertcomcording facilities for many years. plete with modulating carols and
U B C Chamber
He foundedthe
disappearing tree.
Singers and the Phoenix Chamber
Wallace Leung graduated with a
Choir.
Both
of thesechamber
BMUS in 1992.
choirs won many national andinWith several other Music graduternational awards under his diates he founded the Little Chamrection.
ber Music SeriesThat Could. They
As an educator, Hultberg was
have commissioned and given the
much loved by students. A quirky premieres of works by many U B C
andengagingstyleearnedhis
alumni.
classes a“not to bemissed’’ standHe also founded theHelicon Ening and a teachingaward from the semble and was music director at
university. To illustrate techniques the Delta Youth Orchestra, Fraser
used by composers such as John
Valley Symphony, Gateway TheaCage,his lecturesincludedeletre and Vancouver Philharmonic
ments of chance such as taking a Orchestra. Recentlyhe wasapbook from a stack, opening it at pointedmusicdirector
of the
random to read a passage aloud
Prince George Symphony.
while making sounds with classOn Dec.21, at age 33, he was hosroom equipment.
pitalized for viral encephalitis and
Hultberg was a man with a gen-died of heart failure on Jan.18.
tle manner, an insatiablecuriosity, Laurie Townsend isthe School of
big bushy eyebrows and, more of- Musicb Communications and
ten than not, a twinkle in his eye. Concert Manager:
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O F B R I T I S HC O L U M B I A
u B c Draft Policy:Research and Other
Studies Involving Human Subjects
To Members of the UBC Community
entitled “Research and Other StudiesInvolving Human
Subjects” was presented to the
Board of Governors for information and
review in January of2002. The draft
policy has beenamended based on
feedback received to date asis set forth in its entirety below. Accompanying Procedures are proposed tobe passed by the President and arealso
set forth below. Feedback from the campus communityis requested and
may be submittedby e-mail to Marcia Lang at mlang@exchange.ubc.ca.
Please provide your feedbackby Feb. 21,2002.
Subject to feedback from the campus community the proposed
policy
will be submitted to the
Board of Governors with a requestfor final approval in March of 2002.
A DRAFT POLICY
living human subjects
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human remains. cadavers, tissues, biological fluids, embryos or foetuses.
Notwithstanding theabove, research involvinghuman subjects does
not include:
research about a living individual involvedin the public arena, or
about an artist,based exclusivelyon publicly available information,
documents, records,works, performances, archival materials or thirdparty interviews.Such research only requiresan ethicsreview if the
subject is approached directlyfor interviews orfor access to private
papers;
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quality assurance studies, performancereviews or testing within normal educational requirements.
The University will regulate the conductof all research involving human subjectsin accordance with the most current
version of the
Responsible Vice President
Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct
for Research InvolvingHumans and, where applicable to specific research, other relevant national
Vice President Research
and international standards.
No research involving human subjectsmay be undertaken by anyone
associated with the University, nor may University facilitiesor services be
used, nor may funds
for such purposesbe accepted, nor accounts opened
Purpose
by Financial Services unlessthe research hasreceived formal ethical apT H E U N I V E R S I T Y R E C O G N l Z E S that theuse of human subjects IS indisproval by one of the University Research Ethics Boards before
the research
pensable for progressin many areasof research and other studies.
begins and the research hasreceived a Certificateof Approval.
However, all research involving human subjects shouldbe conducted
Academic units in which research involving human subjects
is conethically in ways that protect individual subjects and respect their dignity ducted are to ensure that those who conduct, and those
who are being
and rights.
trained to conduct, such research understand their
responsibilities for the
This policy is intended to create aresearch environment inwhich huethical conduct of such research and receive appropriate trainingin the
man subjects are protected, and to ensure responsibilities are dischargedskills necessary forthe ethical conduct of such research. l h i s includes
according to therelevant ethical standards, by promoting awarenessof
awareness of policies and otherrelevant standards (e+ legal, profesresearch ethics amongstfaculty, staffand students, establishing an inde- sional, institutional) pertinent to the particular area
of research.
pendent research ethics review process,and puttingin place mechanisms
for the protectionof human subjectsin ongoing research including monitoring.
Drafl Procedures
It is the intentionof the University to ensure that,where a human subject is involved in researchor other study:
respect is shown for the dignityof research subjects;
Procedures:
PURSUANT
TO POLICY
$1: Administration of Policies, “Procedures may be
amended by the President,provided the new procedures conform to the
selection of subjects is fair;
approved policy. Such amendments are reported at the next meeting
of
vulnerable persons are protected against abuse, exploitation and dis- the Board of Governors and are incorporatedin the next publicationof
crimination;
the U B C Policy Handbook.”
standards for privacy and confidentiality are observed with respect
to
Research Ethics Boards
of personal information:
access, control and dissemination
ALL
R E S E A R C H I N V O L V I N G human subjects must be
reviewed by one of
the ethicsreview processis fair and effectively independent of the Unithe
University
Research
Ethic
Boards
(
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B
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before
the
research begins.
versity’s other academic and administrative decision-malung
The
R
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are:
processes;
the Behavioural Research Ethics Board;
foreseeable harms will not outweigh the anticipated benefits;
the Clinical Research Ethics Board;
research subjects will not be subjected to unnecessary
risks of harm,
and their participationin research must be essential to
achieving scithe uac/providence Research Ethics Board:
entifically and societally important aims that cannot realized
be
any other ethicalreview board that has been mandatedby the Vice
without the participationof human subjects:
President Research.
actual and potential conflict
of interest has been made known and
The procedurefor submitting a Protocolfor consideration by an R E B is
dealt with appropriately accordingto theUniversity’s policies on Conoutlined inPolicy #87 - Research. The correctR E B will depend on the type
flict of Interest and otherrelevant conflict of interest statements.
and locationof the research being conducted.
R E B S must determine whether research proposals are acceptable on
ethical grounds and whether the research complies withTri-Council
the
Policy Statement: Ethical Conductfor Research InvolvingHuman Subjects
Policy
and, where applicable to specific research, otherrelevant national and
international standards.
This policy appliesto all research involving human subjectsany
in of the
The appropriateR E B must read and evaluate each complete proposal
following circumstances:
and decidefor the relevant proposed or ongoing research whether to:
conducted by members or associated members of the University-actapproveit;
ing in their University capacity.Members or associated members
of
the University include faculty,emeritus faculty, staff, sessionalinstrucrequire modifications to it;
tors, clinical professors, administrators, students,visiting or adjunct
rejectit; or
scholars, fellows, paid or unpaid associates and any other person assoterminate it.
ciated with researchat theUniversity; or
When anR E B is considering a negative decision,it should provide the
conducted at theUniversity; or
researcher with its reasons for doingso and give the researcher an opporadministered by the University.
tunity toreply beforemaking afinal decision.
Research involvinghuman subjectsis defined as any systemic
investiResearch that has been approved
will receive a Certificateof Approval.
gation (including pilot studies, exploratory studies, and course based
assignments) to establish facts, principlesgeneralizable
or
knowledge
which involves:
the research has scientificvalue and the research methodology
is
valid;
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The R E B S will meet regularly, faceto face, to review proposed research
not delegated toCategorical Review (discussed below). Minutes
of all R E B
meetings will be prepared and maintainedby the REBS and be availableto
the University and to the
researchers, fundingagencies and otherrelevant
authorities involved in the research. REBS should make available toresearchers their standard operating procedures.
R E B S must convey in
writing their decisions and the reasons
for those decisions.
Categorical Review
AT T H E D I S C R E T I O N of
the R E B Chair a proposal mayundergo aCategorical (expedited) Review. In this case the R E B Chair will review the proposal
for ethical acceptabilityand a Certificateof Approval will be issued when
appropriate. Most research proposals
will be reviewed by the full R E B , but
Categorical Review may be possible forthe following situations:
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a new application with minimal risk to subjects;
research involving patient recordsby hospital personnel;
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review of modifications to a research proposal, that has
already been
approved;
renewal of time-limited approval where thereis little or no change
in
ongoing research:
affirmation thatprovisos laid down by the R E B as a conditionof approval have been met.
The Categorical Review decisions of the Chair will be reported to and
ratified by the full R E B each month.
Term ofApproval
P R O V I D E D T H E R E I S NO M O D I F I C A T I O Nof procedures, a completed Certificate of Approval will be valid forO N E Y E A R at the endof which time
(or earlier if any modification is introduced) anew protocol must be
submitted and the procedures re-examined
by the R E B .
Reconsideration and AppealProcedures
of a decision madeby the
Upon such request theR E B has an obligation to reconsider its decisions regarding theresearch proposal again.
If the R E B and the researcher cannot
reach an agreement on a decision
reconsideration the researcher can request review
a
by the U B C Research
Ethics Appeal Board( R E A B ) . The decision of the R E B cannot be overridden exceptby formal appeal to theR E A B . The R E A B is an independent
ethical review board appointed by the Vice President Research. The composition, termsof membership and quorum requirements mustsatisfy
the R E B requirements outlinedbelow. No individual person canbe a
member of an R E B and theR E A B at the same time.
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Research Ethics Boards and their Membership
M E E T I N G S OF THE R E B wdl comprise at leastfive members, including
both men and women,
of whom:
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at least two members have broad expertisein the methods orin the
areas of research that are coveredby the R E B ;
at least one memberis knowledgeable in ethics;
for biomedical research,at least one member
is knowledgeable in the
relevant law;this is advisable but not mandatoryfor other areasof research; and
at least one member has no
affiliation with the institution, butis recruited from the communityserved by the University.
the ethical review
Each R E B will have sufficient members to ensure that
process has input from a multi-disciplinary membership
with relevant
expertise and experience.All members of the University community, including students, areeligible to serve. A quorum will comprise a
minimum of five members withknowledge of the stipulatedresponsibilities.
Appointments to theR E B S will be made by the Vice President Research
with guidance of the Deans of the Faculties concerned. It will be normal
to make aninitial appointment for three years,with the possibility of one
renewal for afurther three-year term. Terms
of individual members
should be staggered to ensure continuity
of the R E B expertise.
The Vice President Research will appoint theChair of each R E B , normally from amongst the membershipof the R E B , for a three-year term as
Chair renewable for a further threeyears. On an annualbasis the Vice
President Research will appoint anAssociate Chair of the R E B , who can
chair the meetings and make decisions
in the absenceof the Chair.
All members of the R E B will be expected tolodge with the Chair of the
R E B an annual statementof any potential conflictof interest relevant to
R E B matters.
‘The R E B S report to theVice President Research. R E B S should provide
annual reports to the
Vice President Research on their activities and
other matters requestedby the Vice President Research.
A R E S E A R C H E R M A Y R E Q U E S T reconsideration
REB.
Education
A C A D E M I C U N I T S should
he ableto demonstrate how they
have addressed
the ethical trainingof researchers in their units, in
the curriculum for students, andin other forms appropriatefor faculty and staff.
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Accounting for health-care policv
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Private capital marketsdemand F O R U M
private financing also permits the
better-off to enjoy a higher stand- "compounding earnings," matheissues, suggests health-care economics expert
ard without having to support,via matically irreconcilable with global cost containment (see iron
law sometimes they are better butfor
taxation,asimilarstandardfor
number one).
many patients they provide the
by Prof. Robert Evans Economics stand four-square against any real others.
Managing for effective health same therapeutic effect at higher
The conflict of interest is real
reform.
have prices - and profits.
As citizens we may want effec- and unavoidable. There is no mys- care is verydifficult;firms
T W O F U N D A M E N T A L accounting
To the extent that "public exrelationships - iron
laws
of tive health care, efficiently provid- tery as towhy the issue never dies. found it more profitableto concenselection, to offload pectations" are being created (at
The need to present private in- trate on patient
finance - must be clearly under- ed to those who need it. But the
public sector("priva- considerable expense) within the
gives rise costs onto the
stood if one is to make sense of hard accounting reality is that all terests as public benefits
health-care sector itself, budgeting
tize
the
profits,
socialize
the
ideas
or
claims
to
"zombies"
essential,
useful,
expenditure
health-care policy debates.
but losses"), and toseek out opportuni- to meet them is chasing a will a'
The first is that every dollar of useless, or harmful - is equally that are intellectually dead will
the wisp into afiscal marsh.
ties toexpandprivatecharges.
not stay buried, no matter how
expenditure is simultaneously and effective ingenerating income.
Don't go there.
Competitive pressureshave also led
And that is why, no matter what many times they are refuted.
necessarily a dollar of income for
A professor of Economics and
cases.
They have just enough superfi- to some spectacular fraud
someone. The second
is that while theproblem,thesolutionthat
U B C Centre
emerges from the health-care sec- cial plausibility to attract attention In the United States, where pre- faculty member at the
the residents of a country must
f o r Health Services andPolicy
scription drugs are now advertised
tor always begins with "More mon-fromthoseunfamiliarwiththe
collectively pay for their healthlogic or the counter-evidence.Pri- directly to thepublic, the industry Research, Robert Evans is widely
care system,the share contributed ey is needed to..."
vate payment will discourage un- spends twice as much on advertis- regarded as thesingle most
Money contributedby whom?
by each canvary widely depending
influential academic in
necessary care-seeking, for exam- ing as onresearch.
Tax finance requires people to
on theway revenues areraised.
Everywhere,
new,
high
cost Canadian health-care policy
lifestyles,
contribute roughly in proportion ple, or encourage healthy
Weaker
cost
controls
imply
development.
greater sales opportunities for pro-to their incomes, independent of or "supplement" rather than sub- drugs replace older cheaper ones;
viders and financiers of care. High their use of care. Private financing stitute for taxation.
Stuff and nonsense, but often an
administration costs are the sales detaches contributions from ineffective distraction from the real
to
of the private insurance industry. come and attaches them use.
I
The healthy and wealthy win
issues.
The monumentally expensive and
The real issues are not how best
inefficient American system is far and the unhealthy and unwealthy
Instead of using your car, walk to the store.
and away the mosteffective gener- lose. Insofar as ability to pay be- to raise the money, but how much
Do an errand on your bicycle. Take the bus
and for what? And that's a much
ator of incomes on the planet, andcomesacondition of accessto
to work, or carpool it.
Dlstrlct
higher quality or more timely care,tougher question.
the recipients of those incomes
Debate over private or publicfinding is clouding the real
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cating U B C positionstogovernTupper is editor-in-chief of C a - son's Impact Scale, a tool to rneasments.
n a d i a n Public A d m i n i s t r a t i o n and
ure patients' qualityof life.
Tupper comes to U B C from the chairs the Centre
for ConstitutionThe authorof more than60 paUniversity of Alberta where he wasal Studies, an established research pers,
book
chapters,
patient
a professorof Political Science and institute for the interdisciplinary handbooks and pamphlets, she
served as thechair of the Political study of constitutional and human served as co-ordinatorof the x111
Science Dept., associate dean
of rights
issues
in Canada
and
InternationalCongressonParArts, and associate vice-president, abroad.
kinson's Disease held in Vancou. . .
Government Relations.
ver in 1999 and co-edited the proTupper's teaching and research Susan Calne, co-ordinator of the ceedings.
interests include Canadian politics, Pacific Parkinson's Research Cen. . .
western Canadian politics, public tre, a researchand treatmentfacil- Geography Prof. Timothy Oke is
policy and public administration.
ity within the university, has been this year's recipient of the AmeriAllan Tupper has been appointed
can
Society's
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associate vice-president, Government Relations.
of Canada.
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PROFILE
Prof:Emeritus VinodModi’s curiosity
makes him anything butretired
Rocket man
his master’s degree from the UniHe is currentlydevelopinga
versity of Washington and his
PhD snake-likemanipulatorarm
for
from Purdue University where he the space station thatwill be able
met his wife, Mira.
to extend and change shape to
After graduating, Modi worked avoid obstacles. The invention is
for the Cessna Aircraft Co. in Wi- completely unique to U B C .
Modi has also given longer life
chita, Kan., where he also earned
to
spy satellitesby finding away to
his private pilot’s license. After a
control
themwithnaturalsolar
couple of years, he accepted an
offer to work at U B C , although he pressure rather than fuel. These
admits that he wasn’t even sure $6o-million handy cams can now
snap photos for up to three years
where Vancouver was at the
time.
instead of just 45 days, saving usModi arrived on campus1961.
in
ers
like the U . S . and Russian govSince then, he has graduated 38
ernments
hundreds of millions of
PhD students and 37 master’s degree students. Although now offi- dollars in replacement costs.
For 10 years,Modi hasbeen
cially retired, he still works with a
working on designing better airsmall groupof senior students.
plane wings by fitting them with
“I enjoy beingwithstudents,
horizontalrotatingcylindersto
with young creative minds,” Modi
says. “It’s satisfying to show them generate more lift.
Thetechnique, calledmoving
engineering at work - it’s somealthing different than just publish- surface boundary-layer control,
so excited, they lows aircraft to carry larger loads,
ing papers. They’re
don’t want to go home at night.I manoeuvre more easilyand land at
lower speeds.NASA has built a SUCdon’t want tolose that contact.”
cessful prototype usingModi’s deModi’s research projects reflect
his love of diversity, but all are sign and theu s . Air Force is planlinked to his interest in how things ning to incorporateit into its next
travel through their environment. generation of fighter planes.
He adapted the same kind
of
His theory that the same
laws govcylinder to a transport truck, reern all objects in movement-from
by 24
rockets in outer space to blood in ducing its aerodynamic drag
of enorarteries - has been the key to his per cent. With the promise
mous savings in fuel costs, Genermany research successes.
al Motors, Nissan and Mazda all
Among his many accomplishhave planstointroduce
Modi’s
ments, Modi put his theoryto
models.
work in the early 1960s to collabo- concept into new truck
While people around the world
ratewith us. doctors to design
save
better artificial hearts for trans- are using his inventions to
time and money, he has never patplant patients.
Looking to the oceanwaves for ented any of his designs.
“I grew up with a different kind
inspiration, Modi designed liquidfilled dampers that, when fitted to of philosophy,” Modi explains. “I
to
the
conclusion that
the tops of tall buildings, help to came
free and
reduce vibrations caused by high knowledgeshouldbe
windsandseismictremors.
His available to everyone. Like the sun,
you don’t pay for it although it’s a
dampers are now used on buildsource of life.”
Modi has treated life much like an Among Prof: Emeritus Vinod Modi$
by Michelle Cook staff writer
design innovations
At 72,he has no plans to slow
orchestra and this philosophy is
down.
An avid photographer, he
aimed atallowing aircraftto
reflected in his diverse research in-is a better airplane wing
I N T H E D A I L Y S Y M P H O N Y of life
has won several prestigious awards
here on Earth, planes rumble
over- terests.Fromsatellitesandaircarry larger loads and landlower
at speeds. Martin Deephoto and shown his work in 64 counhead leaving behind their wispy planes tobuildings, trucks and hutriesincludingIndiawhere,in
trails of vapour. Higher still, satel- man hearts, Modi has done land1998, an exhibition of his pictures
lites beep out theirgraceful orbits mark work.
raised $34,000 for India’s national
ings
in
several
earthquake-prone
His
In an award-filled career span- watchingplanesinmotion.
around the planet.
Closer to home,
association for the blind.
countries
including
Japan.
ning more than four decades, Mo- curiosity prompted him to enter
transporttrucksthunderdown
And his curiosity remains insaU
B
C
researchers
He
and
fellow
di’s most recent accoladeis an hon- and win a magazine story contest.
highways,buildingssway
to the
tiable.
He recently set his sights on
are
credited
worldwide
with
solvearth’s regular rumblings while, in orary membership in the Japanese As part of his award, he got to take
the
open
sea, where he hopes to
ing
a
zoo-year-old
mechanics
rideach of us, blood pumps quietly Rocket Society. He is the first Cana- a short planeflight.
experiment
with his rotating
cylindle
called
the
“many
body
prob“That’swhen I decidedhow
dian to be inducted into the
45through a beating heart.
der
technology
on
large
ocean-golem.”
Modi
considers
it
a
crowning
year-old learned society. With the great it is to fly,” Modi recalls. “It
Like a conductor, Vinod Modi
ing barges.
has had a hand in ensuring all
that honour, Modi joins the ranks of 22 was exhilarating and I decided I’d career achievement.
Even with so many accomplishRemaining
true
to
his
first
love,
aeronautical engineer,
these movements - big and small international pioneers who’ve ex- like to be an
ments, Modi can’tpinpoint onereplored the frontiers of aerodynam- even though I actually had noidea Modi has devoted much of his re- run smoothly.
search
project that holds special
search
time
and
imagination
to
air
what thatmeant.”
ics, satelliteand rocket science.
Modi isn’t a maestro, but the
significance
for him.
He went on to study mechani- and space flight, including exploModi’s fascinationwithspace
musical analogy is an apt one for
“Asking
that
is like asking a faboy. Born cal, electrical and aeronautical en- rationsintohowtokeepspace
the professor emeritus of Mechan- began when he was a
is his favourite,”
ther
which
child
shuttles and the
new international
near an airport in Bombay, India, gineering in India before moving
ical Engineering. In both his prohe
laughs.
to the United States. He received space station stable.
fessional and personal endeavours, he spent many childhood hours
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