Marjan Mahmoodi
Congratulations to Reza Malik the recipient of the 2019 VCHRI Top Doctoral Student Award
Reza Malik one of the PhD students who works with Dr. Tania Lam at ICORD, was selected as the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) Top Graduating Doctoral Student for 2019. His research accomplishments and contribution to the scientific community are outstanding. This awards recognize trainees that are outstanding role models, demonstrate research excellence, and […]
Check out all the great things that ICORD is up to!
In 2016, Swedish exercise experts Dr. Anna Bjerkefors and Mats-Erik Bjerkefors came to Vancouver on a BICP-funded international travel award to collaborate with Dr. Tania Lam and her team in ICORD’s Yuel Family Physical Activity Research Centre (PARC) to develop workshops to train fitness leaders how to work with people with SCI. The PARC team successfully ran two pilot workshops in the summer of 2016: […]
UBC Library acquires the personal archive of Hanne Wassermann Walker
UBC Library’s Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) has acquired the personal archive of Hanne Wassermann Walker (1893-1985), a significant figure of pre-WWII Viennese cultural and social life. Her remarkable story has been relatively unknown until now. A well-known figure of Viennese society during the 1920s and 1930s, Wassermann Walker was at the forefront of the Weimar-era […]
Indigenous Community and Institutional Research Reconciliation Workshop
Indigenous community leaders, Elders, academic, students and other institutional partners gathered at the Musqueam Cultural Pavilion on January 22, 2019, to brainstorm in-depth strategies to promote new innovative concepts for Indigenous research reconciliation. The goal of the meeting was to listen and reflect Indigenous community perspectives on how to foster a system that supports young […]
Andrews, Shelley Winter
Graduating year: 1975
Degree: BPE
While playing for UBC 1975 through 1985 she was selected MVP, won the league sportsmanship award and was named the 1975/76 UBC female Athlete of the Year.
From 1975 through 1986 Shelley was a member of Canada’s National team – her 12 years being the most of any BC woman in this sport.
Sainas, Bill (1939-2018)
Graduating year: 1949
Degree: BPE
Bill Sainas, who passed away in 2018 at age 93, was a member of UBC’s first Physical Education/Kinesiology graduating class in 1949. This small, pioneer class represented the first graduates in Physical Education in Western Canada.
Dylan Brown, Active Kids Program Director
Dylan Brown, School of Kinesiology’s Active Kids Program Director, has been involved in sports in some capacity for as long as he can remember. “As a kid, physical activity and sports were what I was drawn to immediately,” he says. “My mother always said, ‘stick him in the backyard with one tennis ball and he’ll […]
McTavish, Spence
Graduating year: 1973
Degree: BPE
International matches were a large component of Spence’s career as through the 1970s and into the 1980s he played over 50 games for Canada and over 100 games for BC. He captained Canada until 1982 and was awarded 23 caps honouring his full international test matches.
Exercise as Medicine article published in the Province
“Exercise as Medicine”, published in The Province, discusses the importance of exercise in the treatment regime of cancer patients. Don McKenzie, UBC School of Kinesiology Sports Medicine professor, exercise physiologist, and director of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Clinic, is quoted in the article. Don says of exercise, “Physical activity has been overlooked and underutilized […]
Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Guenette, the recipient of Young Investigator’s Award
Dr. Jordan Guenette, has won the very prestigious Young Investigator’s Award from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. Dr. Guenette received his BHK (2004), MSc (2006) and PhD (2010) in Exercise and Respiratory Physiology in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. He is now an associate professor in UBC Physiotherapy and works […]