Klaus Strassmann
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Tuesday, March 11, in memory of Professor Emeritus Klaus Gerhard Strassmann, who passed away on March 6, 2014. Klaus joined the UBC Department of Theatre in 1964, teaching acting, directing, and history of theatre until his retirement in 1991. He directed dozens of highly-regarded productions during […]
Erich Vogt
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 21, in memory of Professor Emeritus Erich Wolfgang Vogt, OC, OBC, FRSC, who passed away on February 19, 2014. Erich Vogt taught physics at UBC from 1965 until 2009. He was a founder of the TRIUMF project, and served as Director from 1981 until his retirement in 1994. […]
Irene Langston, Peter Lusztig
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, February 6, in remembrance. Langston, Irene – passed away on January 28, 2014. Irene was inducted into the 25 Year Club in 1997. After working at UBC for over 40 years, she retired from the Faculty of Medicine in 2013. Lusztig, Peter A. – passed […]
Michael Batts
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, January 27, in memory of Professor Emeritus Michael S. Batts, FRSC, who passed away on January 16, 2014. Michael Batts first joined UBC’s Department of German Studies in 1959, and was Department Head from 1968 to 1980. Under his leadership, the Department became recognized […]
James Macdonald, Anthony Marcus
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, in remembrance. James Alexander Stirling Macdonald passed away on November 29, 2013. Professor Emeritus Macdonald taught in the Art Department in the Faculty of Education, and served as Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Education from 1980 to […]
Armin Tepper
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, December 11, in remembrance. Tepper, Armin – passed away on November 18, 2013. A Senior Research Technician in the Department of Zoology at the South Campus, Armin was inducted into the 25 Year Club in 1981 and he retired in 1994. Under Armin’s […]
Ann Dusing, Moshe Shapiro
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, December 11, in remembrance. Dusing, K.A. (Ann) – passed away on November 28, 2013. Professor Emeritus Dusing was a UBC alumna, and taught in the Classics Department until her retirement in 1998. A pioneer in telling the story of women in antiquity and making the details […]
Valentine Leborgne, Olivia Robertson
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, December 11, in remembrance. Leborgne, Valentine – passed away November 23, 2013 at the age of 19. Valentine had made Vancouver her home and had fallen in love with the stimulating environment she was in at UBC while studying in her second year of a […]
Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
The Canadian flag will be lowered on Friday, December 6 to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Romuald Lakowski
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Wednesday, December 4, in memory of Romuald Lakowski, who passed away on November 1, 2013. Professor Emeritus Lakowski (Ronnie) taught at UBC from 1970 to 1991, in both the Psychology and Opthalmology Departments. His research established the link between changes in colour vision and the onset […]