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  • May 2010 Babak Shadgan, PhD candidate

    Congratulations to Babak Shadgan, a PhD candidate supervised by Dr. Darlene Reid. He was awarded one of 26 International Society for Optics & Photonics (SPIE) Scholarships and the “D.J. Lovell Award”, the largest and most prestigious of the society’s award.   Babak was awarded the Scholarship based on his potential for long-range contribution to optics and…

  • April 2010 Visiting scientist, Dr. Jiro Nakano

    Welcome to Dr. Jiro Nakano, a visiting scientist in the Muscle Biophysics Laboratory until March 2011.  Dr. Nakano is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical & Occupational Therapy and a member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University in Nagasaki, Japan.  He also directs the Laboratory of Basic Physical…

  • April 2010 Janice Eng

    Dr. Janice Eng, Professor and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar was one of three winners of the 2010 Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Early Career Faculty . Janice is committed to mentoring not only faculty members within her Department but members of numerous faculties at UBC.  Her dedication to furthering success of…

  • January 2010 Tyler Dumont

    Tyler Dumont will represent the Department in the 2010 Olympic flame relay Tyler will be representing the Department of Physical Therapy beginning at 3:09pm on Wednesday, February 10th in North Vancouver. He will run South along Grand Boulevard West from house 1753 to house 1523. He plans on  a slow jog since 300m will pass…