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Frick, Tim
Graduating year: 1975
Degree: BPE
Frick’s coaching career has resulted in an outpouring of acknowledgements. A sample includes seven Canadian Coaching Association Excellence Awards, 1998 Sport BC Coach of the Year, 3M Male Coach of 2001, BC Wheelchair Sports Coach of the Millennium, Geoff Gowan Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Wheelchair Basketball Canada Hall of Fame and the Order of British Columbia.
Kinghorn, Marilyn Peterson
Graduating year: 1961
Degree: BPE
At UBC she was considered one of the city’s top basketball players as she was selected to the team representing BC at the 1959 national championships. In 1960 she was a key member of UBC’s first Western Canadian women’s asketball champions, a title she and her teammates would win again in 1961.
Congratulations Dr. Carly Priebe!
Congratulations to Carly Priebe for taking 1st place at the PDA’s Annual 3 minute PostDoc Slam on May 26th! Dr. Priebe presented her work with Run to Quit, a 10-week smoking cessation program where participants receive practical support on quitting smoking and also train to run a 5K.
Congratulations Dr. Eli Puterman
Congratulations to Dr Eli Puterman, a recipient of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research 2016 Scholar Award. Foundation funding will allow for the successful realization of Dr Puterman’s vision that maximizes capacity to improve the health of Canada’s adult populations who are at risk for accelerated aging and disease development.
Congratulations to PhD Student Mark Duncan!
Congratulations to Mark Duncan for receiving the AMS Impact Grant for his project, “Examining the feasibility of exercise as an intervention for students seeking help for depression and anxiety: Engaging stakeholders in the development of a tailored and sustainable intervention”
Dr. John Kramer featured on Roundhouse Radio 98.3
Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver Our City with Kirk LaPointe – Dr. John Kramer (Apr 19, 2016) Kirk speaks with Dr. John Kramer, Principal Investigator at ICORD, about the recent research from Ohio State University that shows movement in the hands of people with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury using recordings from the brain. http://cirh.streamon.fm/listen-pl-2463 […]
Miscisco, Dan
Graduating year: 1985
Degree: BPE
Since attaining his degree Dan taught and coached on the lower mainland inspiring students with his passion and unconventional delivery of his messages. Coaching basketball and volleyball are his specialties which culminated in his induction into the British Columbia Basketball Hall of Fame as a builder.
Nickle, Lisa
Graduating year: 1994
Degree: BHK
Since graduation, Lisa, now married with a family, has been a teacher and coach in the Okanagan most recently a learning assistance teacher at a Kelowna elementary school. Her goal while at UBC was to teach physical education to special needs youngsters.
Concussion management app developed by UBC Kinesiology Master’s student Harrison Brown
By Michael Choi · March 21, 2016, 8:06 p.m. The Ubyssey | A concussion management app, Head Check Health, has been developed by a UBC Master of Kinesiology graduate and PhD candidate, Harrison Brown. Along with cofounders Kerry Costello — chief operating officer and recent MBA graduate from UBC — and Alexey Manov — manufacturing […]
Hansen, Rick
Graduating year: 1986
Degree: BPE
Rick Hansen remains one of UBC’s most renowned graduates as the 1986 Physical Education alumnus’ story has been so well documented. But because this man decided to take on challenges rather than avoid them, fight self-pity and despair and because of his resulting motivational and fund-raising accomplishments, we sometimes overlook the fact Rick was one of Canada’s most remarkable athletes.