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Roger Sutton

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, September 29, in memory of Professor Emeritus Roger A.L. Sutton DM, FRCPC, who passed away on September 10, 2014. Dr. Sutton came to Vancouver in the mid 1970s, where he became Head of the Division of Nephrology, and Head of the Department of Medicine at […]

Theo van Rijn

The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, September 18, in memory of Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus Theo Arie van Rijn, who passed away on August 26, 2014. Dr. van Rijn taught Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) since 1984, and was Head of the UBC Division of PMR and Director […]

Tadeusz Ulyrch

The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Tuesday, August 26, in memory of Professor Emeritus Tadeusz Ulyrch, who passed away on August 19, 2014. Tad received his MSc in 1961 and his PhD in 1963 from UBC; he joined the Geophysics Department as faculty in 1965. Although he officially retired in 2000, he remained […]

Karl Erdman

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Tuesday, August 19, in memory of Professor Emeritus  Karl Lembit Erdman, who passed away on August 11, 2014. Professor Erdman earned his PhD from UBC in 1953, and immediately began his career here as a part-time lecturer. He went on to become one of the founding […]

David Huynh

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, August 1, in memory of student David Mai Huynh, who passed away on July 26, 2014, at the age of 22.  David was entering his final year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Sauder School of Business where he was very involved […]

Ellie Maze

The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, July 23, in memory of Eleanor Ruth Maze, who passed away on July 11, 2014.  Ellie was a long-serving staff member in the UBC Library Catalogue Division; she was inducted into the 25 Year Club in 1998.

Keith McErlane, Sam Rothstein

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, July 11, in memory of Professor Emeritus Keith Michael Joseph McErlane, and Professor Emeritus Samuel Rothstein.   Dr. McErlane passed away on July 1, 2014. He joined the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in December 1977 and served until his retirement in December 2007.  As an expert […]

National Aboriginal Day

  In celebration of National Aboriginal Day, Saturday, June 21, the Musqueam flag will be flown on the flag pole on the plaza on the north side of the Student Union Building.  

Alex Fraser, Tony Lin

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, June 20, in remembrance. Alexander Fraser passed away on May 26, 2014.  Alex was President of the 25 Year Club from 1978-79.  He was Supervising Technician in the Department of Physics, when he retired in 1981, after 49 years at UBC. Li-Chung (Tony) Lin passed […]

Nancy Scott

The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, June 16, in memory of Nancy Scott, DMD, who passed away on June 4, 2014. Dr. Scott graduated from the UBC Faculty of Dentistry in 1980, and started teaching that same year.  In 2010, she was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor. Nancy was an outstanding clinical […]