The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, May 27, in remembrance.
Cortlandt J.G. (Cort) MacKenzie – passed away on May 16, 2013. Professor Emeritus MacKenzie came to UBC in 1961. From 1969 to 1973, he was Acting Chair, and from 1973 to 1980, Head of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology (now the School of Population and Public Health). Dr. MacKenzie played an active role in the animal welfare and marine conservation movement since the 1960s, and was a founding Director of the Canadian Marine Environmental Protection Society.