Cortlandt MacKenzie
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 […]
Bettye Bongie
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, May 23, in remembrance. Elizabeth Agnes Emily (Bettye) Bongie – Professor Emeritus Bongie passed away on, May 18, 2013. In 1956, she was the first woman to be appointed to a tenure-track position in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, […]
Yian Chen
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in remembrance. Yian Chen – passed away on May 11, 2013. Yian came to UBC IT Systems in 2008. His colleagues remember Yian as a strong and gentle person, whose many initiatives contributed to the workings of his team and the […]
Hartley V. Lewis, Doug McDonald
The BC flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, May 10, in remembrance. Lewis, Hartley Vanstone – passed away on April 27, 2013. Dr. Lewis taught economics at UBC before moving to Victoria, to the Ministry of Forests, in 1976. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Dr. Lewis’ name to […]
Roy Lewis Taylor, William Siep, James Beresford Warren
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, May 6, in remembrance. Taylor, Roy Lewis – passed away on May 2, 2013. Dr. Taylor was Director of the UBC Botanical Garden from 1968 to 1985. He was regarded as a pioneer in horticulture therapy and was internationally renowned for his work directing […]
Michael Shaw
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, March 28, in remembrance. Michael Shaw – passed away on March 25, 2013. Vice-President and Professor Emeritus Shaw came to UBC in 1967, as Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, where he served until his appointment as Vice President Academic, from 1975 […]
Martin Wedepohl
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, March 22, in remembrance. Leonhard Martin Wedepohl – passed away on March 17, 2013. Dean Emeritus Wedepohl retired as professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science from 1979 to 1985. […]
Alfred J. Scow
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered Wednesday, March 6, in remembrance. Alfred John Scow, C.M., O.B.C., passed away on February 26, 2013. A UBC alumnus, The Honorable Alfred J. Scow was the first Aboriginal person to graduate from UBC Law School, and the first Native in BC to be appointed as […]
Mark Harris
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, March 4, in remembrance. Mark Harris passed away on February 26, 2013. A UBC alumnus, Dr. Harris has been teaching in the Department of Theatre and Film since 1992. He shared his passion for cinema as a translator, poet, prize-winning playwright, and veteran film […]
Jean Cunningham, Greg Willett
The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, February 18, in remembrance. Cunningham, Jean – passed away on January 31, 2013. Dr. Cunningham’s study of the anthropology of dance informed her work as coordinator of the dance program in the School of Physical Education, where she taught core courses from 1977 until […]