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UBC Computer Science’s Joanna McGrenere, Dinesh Pai, Alla Sheffer Awarded NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements

By Eugene Barsky on April 10, 2012

The Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Program provides  substantial and timely resources to a small group of researchers  whose research proposals suggest and explore high-risk, novel or  potentially transformative concepts and lines of inquiry, and are  likely to have impact by contributing to groundbreaking advances. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2012/04/joanna-mcgrenere-dinesh-pai-alla-sheffer-awarded-nserc-discovery-accelerator-supplement

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Outstanding Presentation Award at this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference.

By Eugene Barsky on April 4, 2012

ECE PhD candidate wins APEC outstanding presentation award Deepak S. Gautam, a PhD student in power electronics from computer and electrical engineering, received an Outstanding Presentation Award at this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference. In the poster Deepak describes a novel zero voltage switching full-bridge converter with trailing edge pulse width modulation and capacitive output [...]

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Peter Wall Institute’s Major Thematic Grant awarded on Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications

By Eugene Barsky on March 19, 2012

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies has announced that a Peter Wall Institute Major Thematic Grant of $500,000 has been awarded to Dr. Michael Wolf, Principal Investigator (Chemistry) for a project entitled “Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications” for the period 2012-2016. http://www.pwias.ubc.ca/awards/thematic-programs/major-thematic-grants.php

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David Lowe wins the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) “Test of Time” Award

By Eugene Barsky on November 24, 2011

From UBC CS blog:   David Lowe from UBC Computer Science wins the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) “Test of Time” Award for his 1999 paper “Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features“.  The award was presented at the ICCV conference in Barcelona on November 2011.

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UBC mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis has been named Fellow of Engineers Canada

By Eugene Barsky on May 3, 2011

UBC mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis has been named Fellow of Engineers Canada for his noteworthy achievement and service to the engineering profession. Pakalnis is an expert in developing geotechnical design methods for underground openings. His research areas include applied mine design and design under consolidated backfill. He has consulted/researched more than 100 mines around [...]

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UBC Mining Team Wins SME Mine Rescue Competition

By Eugene Barsky on March 11, 2011

Congratulations to the NBK Team for winning the Mine Rescue Competition at this years 2011 SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit and CMA 113th National Western Mining Conference “Shaping a Strong Future Through Mining” in Denver, Colorado! http://mining.ubc.ca/news.php?action=fullnews&id=141&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NbkMiningEngineering+%28NBK+Mining+Engineering%29

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UBC Students’ Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge

By Eugene Barsky on December 10, 2010

Here is an interesting students project from UBC: Design and Tele-Operation of a Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge. Taylor Cooper, Amy Cheng, Ian Phillips, Andre Wild, and John Meech, ASCE Conf. Proc. 366, 95 (2010), DOI:10.1061/41096(366)95. The desire to colonize the moon has prompted an examination of ways to mine lunar regolith to [...]

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UBC Computer Science Professor Tamara Munzner is co-author of A Guide to Visual Multi-Level Interface Design from Synthesis of Empirical Study Evidence

UBC Computer Science Professor Tamara Munzner is co-author of A Guide to Visual Multi-Level Interface Design from Synthesis of Empirical Study Evidence

By Aleteia Greenwood on November 30, 2010

The UBC Library has paid for online access to this book through Synthesis. UBC students, faculty and staff can access it at this link: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00308ED1V01Y201011VIS001

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UBC Mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis is one of this year’s chosen speaker’s for the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Henry Krumb Lecture Series.

By Eugene Barsky on November 18, 2010

UBC Mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis is one of this year’s chosen speaker’s for the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Henry Krumb Lecture Series. SME helps bring outstanding speakers to the Local Sections through the Henry Krumb Lecture Series. The program is offered to all local SME sections to enhance their appreciation and [...]

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Professor Janusz Laskowski wins Gaudin Award

Professor Janusz Laskowski wins Gaudin Award

By Eugene Barsky on September 30, 2010

Prof. Janusz Laskowski has just been selected as the recipient of the SME 2010 Antoine M. Gaudin Award. The Gaudin Award is the highest award in the field of Mineral and Metallurgical Processing. The award ceremony will be held in Denver, Colorado, during the SME Annual Meeting (March 2, 2011).

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