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Anthony Scott

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, February 19 in remembrance.   Professor Emeritus Anthony Dalton Scott, OC, FRSC, passed away on February 17, 2015. After completing undergraduate degrees at UBC in Commerce and in Arts, Tony continued his graduate studies at Harvard and the London School of Economics, returning to UBC […]

Sydney Friedman

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, February 19 in remembrance.   Professor Emeritus Sydney Murray Friedman, FRSC, passed away on February 16, 2015. Sydney and his wife, Constance Livingstone Friedman, came to UBC in 1950 as founding members of the Faculty of Medicine, where they taught the first graduating class of […]

Kenneth Donnelly

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, February 19 in remembrance.   Professor Emeritus Kenneth Rowland Donnelly passed away on February 1, 2015.  Ken came to UBC as undergraduate student in Fine Arts, and continued through medical school, graduating in 1956.  After completing his hospital residencies, he returned to UBC to begin […]

Michael Gerry

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 13, in remembrance.   Professor Emeritus Michael C.L. Gerry passed away on February 7, 2015. Mike completed his bachelors and masters studies at UBC and returned in 1967 to teach in the Department of Chemistry, becoming Professor in 1981.  Mike received many […]

John Meech

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 13, in remembrance. Dr. John Athol Meech passed away on February 9, 2015. Dr. Meech joined UBC in 1989 and during his time at UBC had tremendous influence on many students in the department of Mining Engineering as well as others at UBC and in […]

William Nicholls

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 13, in remembrance. Professor William Nicholls passed away on November 10, 2014. Professor Nicholls came to UBC in 1961 to form one of the first major non-sectarian programs of religious studies in Canada. In 1964, Religious Studies attained full department status, with […]

Mahmoud Manzalaoui

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, February 2, in remembrance. Professor Emeritus Mahmoud Ali Manzalaoui passed away on January 21, 2015. Dr. Manzalaoui was appointed Professor in the Department of English in 1969 and taught there until his retirement in 1989. Mahmoud was a specialist in Middle English Literature, which he […]

Frederick Gornall

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, February 2, in remembrance. Professor Emeritus Frederick A. Gornall passed away on December 21, 2014. Fred came to UBC’s Faculty of Educational Science in 1959, where he specialized in the teaching of botany and flora. Dr. Gornall was Chair of the Department of Science Education from […]