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Department NewsGeography Hits 50September 20092009 marks the 50th year of Geography’s existence as an autonomous department on the UBC campus and the 40th anniversary of the Geography Club, now known as the Geography Students Association. This is cause for celebration, and we intend to mark the occasion in fine style on September 25th and 26th. Please see the poster and the 2009 Geogramme for details and plan to join us at one or more of the events. You will be welcomed warmly, and we hope this will be an occasion for the renewal of old friendships as well as an opportunity to see how the department and your old haunts have changed over the years Olav Slaymaker elected Senior Fellow of the International Association of GeomorphologistsMay 2009We are delighted to congratulate Olav Slaymaker on his election as a Senior Fellow of the International Association of Geomorphologists. This is yet another well-deserved recognition of Olav's important contributions in both scholarship and service to the field of Geomorphology, and more generally to the discipline of Geography, over a long and continuing career. He is a former President of the IAG, and co-editor of an IAG book on 21st Century Landscapes. He will be honoured as a newly-elected Senior Fellow of that organization at the 7th International Conference on Geomorphology in Melbourne in June 2009. Dr. David Ley appointed as Head, Department of Geography from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2012April 2009Excerpt from Dean Gallini's announcement: " I am very pleased to inform you that Dr. David Ley has agreed to serve as Head of the Department of Geography from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012. As you already know, Dr. Ley is a highly respected geographer and researcher, Fellow of the Royal Society, a Trudeau Fellow, and a Canada Research Chair in Urbanization and Cultural Diversity. Considering also his key involvement with the Metropolis Project, Dr. Ley is well-positioned to lead the Department and to build upon the already strong contributions the Department has made in the areas of research and teaching." Luna Vives Awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipApril 2009Excerpt from Dr. Wynn's announcement: " I am delighted to share with you the happy news that one of our graduate students, Ms Luna Vives, has been awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. These new awards are administered by the three federal founding agencies: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and were introduced with the explicit aim to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies and leadership skills. Competition for these awards is intense. UBC was allowed to nominate only 25 persons across ALL disciplines. Only nine of these were in the SSHRC domain. The granting councils accepted a total of 120 Vanier Scholarship nominations each, and awarded a TOTAL of 166 Vanier Scholarships, with one-third awarded by each of the three Tri-Agencies." Juanita Sundberg awarded Faculty of Arts Killam Teaching PrizeApril 2009Juanita Sundberg has been selected as one of the Faculty of Arts Killam Teaching Prize winners for 2009. This is a special honour which Juanita has earned by her innovative and engaging teaching and through her dedication to undergraduate instruction. Sally Hermansen Appointed as UBC's Assistant Dean of Arts with responsibility for Student ServicesMarch 2009Effective July 1 2009, Sally Hermansen will be appointed as UBC's Assistant Dean of Arts with responsibility for Student Services. Sally has made enormous contributions to the department since her appointment here in 2000. Her stellar teaching across a wide range of courses, her engagement with and mentoring of undergraduates, her diligent thoughtful and effective committee work, the links she has fostered with other departments and Faculties (History, Education and Forestry to name but three), and the important role she has played in outreach to broader constituencies such as local high schools and organizations have enhanced the department's reputation within the university community. Simon Donner selected for 2009 Leopold Leadership ProgramFebruary 2009The Leopold Leadership Program, located at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, was founded in 1998 to fill a critical gap in environmental decision making: getting the best scientific knowledge into the hands of government, nonprofit, and business leaders to further the development of sustainable policies and practices. Dr. Donner is among the 19 academic environmental scientists named as Fellows this year. The group was selected through a highly competitive process on the basis of their exceptional scientific qualifications, demonstrated leadership ability, and strong interest in communicating science beyond traditional academic audiences. The Fellows will take part in intensive leadership and communications training designed to hone their skills in delivering scientific information to decision makers, the media, and the public. They also become part of a network of past Fellows and program advisors who are leaders in conducting scientific outreach beyond traditional academic and scientific circles. More information about the program is available at www.leopoldleadership.org. Professor J. Lewis Robinson: In MemoriamJuly 2008
There will be a Memorial Service to celebrate Lew Robinson's life and contributions to UBC on Friday October 3 at 1:00pm in Cecil Green Park House. All are welcome. After short stints teaching geography to US Army Engineers, meteorology at Clark University and cartography at Leicester (MA) Junior College, J Lewis Robinson began his formal career as a professional geographer with the Government of Canada, when he was employed by the Northwest Territories Administration of the Department of Mines and Resources in 1943. He was well-prepared for this assignment as his PhD thesis, completed at Syracuse University the year before, was a Regional Geography of the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Lew came to UBC from Ottawa in September 1946. His mandate was to organize and expand the Geography program in the Department of Geology and Geography which he did with such success that Geography was established as an independent division in 1953 and a separate department in 1959. Lew was appointed divisional chair and was the first Head of Geography, a position he held until 1968. He then served as Acting Head for a year in 1974-5. He was widely acknowledged as an exceptional teacher and undergraduate advisor. He received the UBC Master Teacher Award in 1977 and the Distinguished Teaching Award for Canada from the National Council for Geographic Education in 1982. He was awarded honorary degrees by his alma mater, the University of Western Ontario -- the citation noted that he was the first student from Western to become a professional geographer -- and UBC, and also received the Centennial Medal and Silver Jubilee Medal from the Government of Canada, the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and the CAG Award for Service to the Profession of Geography. There were two principle foci to Lew’s research and teaching: the regional geography of Canada and the discipline of geography in Canada. Among his books and monographs the following were perhaps the best known: The Canadian Arctic (an Information Bulletin of the Geographical Branch, 1952); Resources of the Canadian Shield (Methuen, 1969); British Columbia: A hundred years of geographical change (with W Hardwick, Talon Books, 1973) and Concepts and Themes in the Regional Geography of Canada (Talon Books, 1983). He also published well over a dozen book chapters, half a dozen articles in The Canadian Geographer, a similar number in The Geographical Review, many more in The Canadian Geographical Journal and a handful in each of The Journal of Geography, The Operational Geographer, and The Professional Geographer, as well as several wall maps and dozens of encyclopedia entries. Lew's devotion to the interests of undergraduate students was legendary. In 1977 he donated a part of his Master Teacher Award to a Geography Scholarship Fund that had been established earlier in the decade, in recognition of his contributions as a teacher, by a graduate of the department. The first award was a single one of $100, and for several years the award continued at this level on the basis of annual donations. Subsequently endowed and generously contributed to by Alumni over the years, this initiative has blossomed to the point that this year we made 6 awards of over $1000 each to our best undergraduate students from the return on endowment. Lew was also immensely and importantly active in sustaining contact with Geography alumni and for many years after his retirement in 1984 he played an instrumental part in production of the Geogramme. Beyond the department, Lew took a very active interest in UBC Athletics, and was on the no-longer-existent UBC athletics council. He was also a mainstay of the department's Friday afternoon hockey games, and an important member of the Old Birds Hockey Team (he hung up his skates, reluctantly, at age 77). Beyond the campus Lew was also very involved in deaf education and sports development in Canada, and was President of the Western Institute for the Deaf. Above all but his own kin, Lew valued the Geography department and its members. He believed in the idea of the department as a community and he and his wife Jo, who survives him, worked hard through the years of his Headship and into the 1970s to foster a sense of the department as "family". As a high school track star, Lew set Ontario sprint records, and wrote a short story for his hometown newspaper based on this experience. The last words of his obituary, published in several newspapers, offer an eloquent testament to his full life and his many achievements: “Geographer, mapmaker, explorer, writer, teacher, mentor, husband, father and friend – the kindest man we ever knew - the boy who ran so fast - you taught us kindness, generosity and usefulness. We will miss you - you gave us the world & more - thank you.” Fittingly and generously, Jo Robinson and the Robinson children Jo-Anne, David and Patricia (with their families) have initiated a scholarship for support of graduate students in the department. It will be known as the J. Lewis Robinson Memorial Scholarship. Dr. Graeme Wynn has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of CanadaJuly 2008This is a splendid and richly deserved recognition of Graeme's travels in interdisciplinary space - his nomination received unusually wide sponsorship from scholars in history, literature and geography - and his scholarly contributions to historical geography, environmental history and the humanities most generally. It is particularly remarkable that Graeme has achieved this recognition while playing such a vital and energetic administrative role, both here in the Department and as editor of a major international journal and book series. The citation to the RSC reads as follows: " Graeme Wynn is among the leading Historical Geographers and Environmental Historians in the English-speaking world. He is particularly known for his analyses of the social and environmental ramifications of staple trades, especially in the forests of colonial New Zealand, of the environmental impact of industrializing societies, and of the regional historical geography of early Canada. He is a meticulous researcher, a charming writer, and a fastidious editor. His recent environmental history of Canada is a much-anticipated and ground-breaking work. He leads the interdisciplinary collaborations that distinguish the current burgeoning of Canadian environmental history." Dr. Tim Oke appointed as an Officer of the Order of CanadaJuly 2008Tim Oke, a geographer and climate researcher, has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada. This is an extraordinary achievement and crowning glory to a superb career where Tim has gained many honours. The Order of Canada is received both for scholarly achievement and also for upholding to a high level values that are central to Canadian citizenship. Our heartfelt congratulations to Tim and his family for an honour that fully acknowledges the breadth and depth of his contribution as researcher, teacher, and citizen. Tim joins Cole Harris and Ross Mackay, earlier recipients of the Order of Canada from Geography. This is a remarkable record of professional achievement and public service from one academic unit. Press Release. Scott Krayenhoff receives the Faculty of Arts Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2007/08March 2008Special congratulations to doctoral student, Scott Krayenhoff who is one of this year's three winners of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in the Faculty of Arts. Scott's selection is a splendid recognition of his very impressive contributions that were well reflected in his impressive dossier. The Faculty of Arts annually awards teaching prizes to Graduate Teaching Assistants in recognition of the valuable role that teaching assistants play in our undergraduate programs. Sandy Lapsky received Dean of Arts Staff Excellence AwardDecember 2007From Dr. Gallini, Dean of the Faculty of Arts: "
I am delighted to announce that at our Christmas Staff Luncheon today, four people received this year?s Dean´s Award for Staff Excellence: I was pleased that numerous excellent nominations were submitted by colleagues, Heads and students for this year´s Award, accompanied by glowing letters testifying to the important contributions members of our Staff have made and how they have transformed the working environment, assisting people well beyond the call of duty. Finally, I wish to thank members of this year´s selection committee for their careful deliberations." Michael Church Elected to the Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceNovember 2007Michael Church has been elected to the Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, effective February 2008. This is another recognition of Michael's remarkable career, his intellectual leadership and the quality of his scientific contributions over the years. The citation recognizes Michael for his "distinguished research in fluvial sediment transport, and major contributions in theoretical geomorphology pertaining to stability thresholds governing interactions among form and process in rivers." This acknowledgement captures only a fraction of the diverse scientific and societal contributions that Dr. Church has made during his career. Emeritus Professor Albert Farley Passed Away November 1stNovember 2007
He is best remembered academically for his Atlas of BC, People, Environment and Resources, completed in the department in the late 1970s. Among his graduate students was Nelson Riis, sometime NDP Member of Parliament for Kamloops. Derek Gregory elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British AcademyJuly 2007On Thursday, 19 July the British Academy, the national Academy for the humanities and social sciences, elected forty-eight new scholars into the Fellowship for their academic achievements. Thirty-eight UK based academics have been elected and a further ten overseas scholars have been elected as Corresponding Fellows, including Derek Gregory, Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Gregory is the only scholar working in Canada to be elected a Corresponding Fellow this year. [According to the Academy's web page, there are only two Corresponding Fellows from Canada]. Robin Jackson, Chief Executive and Secretary of the British Academy, said: "Election to Fellowship is the principal way in which the Academy recognises scholarly excellence. It comes as the culmination of a rigorous selection process in which each of the Academy's eighteen Sections, organised by academic discipline, is involved. This year we are pleased to welcome new Fellows from all of the disciplines represented in the Academy, displaying a variety of cutting-edge specialisms, from mediaeval art to game theory, from Islamic history to philosophy of physics, from ethnomusicology to the economic analysis of law." The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of more than 800 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences. It is the counterpart of the Royal Society, the UK's independent academy dedicated to promoting excellence in science. There are currently 980 Ordinary Fellows and 306 Corresponding Fellows. For further details, see http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?Newsid=258 or contact Michael Reade, External Relations. Dr. Graeme Wynn, recipient of the Dean of Arts Award for 2006-07July 2007From Dr. Gallini, Dean of the Faculty of Arts: "I am pleased to announce that Dr. Graeme Wynn of the Department of Geography has been named the recipient of the Dean of Arts Award for 2006-07. In recommending Dr. Wynn for this prestigious award, the committee noted the breadth and quality of contributions he has made over the years as a distinguished and devoted teacher, a dedicated and effective two-term Head of Geography, a Killam Research Fellow, a visiting fellow at both Oxford and Cambridge, a founding member of Green College, and as someone who has served our Faculty and University in so many ways, including his expert and creative service as Associate Dean, Students. The anonymous donor has stipulated that this prize should be awarded in the name of a Professor Emeritus/Emerita who has made a significant contribution to the Faculty. This year the prize is being given in honour of Dr. John K. Stager, formerly of the Department of Geography and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts from 1975-90." Two PhD students named 2007 Trudeau Scholars.June 2007Alexander Aylett, a PhD candidate in UBC’s Dept. of Geography, is author of Municipal Climate Change Policy and Sustainable Development: Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Action. A native of Montreal, Aylett’s research focuses on identifying the key elements needed to nurture productive cooperation between communities, planners and academics. Read Alex's profile here. Jessica Dempsey, a PhD candidate in UBC’s Dept. of Geography, is a native of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Dempsey’s research will critically examine market-based biodiversity offsets, which attempt to compensate for biodiversity loss caused by development projects. Read Jessica's profile here. Alex and Jessica are the second and third UBC Geography students named Trudeau Scholars. Aliette Frank was named Trudeau Scholar in 2005. Read Aliette's profile here. Lori Daniels has been awarded one of the Faculty of Arts Killam Teaching Prizes for 2006-07March 2007The Killam Teaching Prize Committee recommends the following colleagues
to the Vice President Academic and Provost as recipients of the 2006-2007
Faculty of Arts Killam Teaching Prize Awards: David McClung awarded the 2007 UBC Killam Research Prize in the Senior Science CategoryMarch 2007The UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowships are provided annually from the “Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies” established through a bequest from the late Dorothy J. Killam Ten prizes in total are awarded, five in the social sciences and humanities, and five in the applied, health and natural sciences. The cash award is given annually to recognize research and scholarly contributions by faculty members at UBC at the rank of Professor, Assistant and Associate Professor. Nominations are made by any three tenure track faculty members and are submitted by the Dean accompanied by a KRP Nomination Form, a letter from the nominators, curriculum vitae and three external letters of reference. The Killam Research Prize is considered the University’s most prestigious research awards and honourees will be profiled at the Celebrate Research gala in March. Derek Gregory to receive an Honorary Degree from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, HeidelbergMarch 2007Alfred Hettner was the first modern Professor of Geography in the Heidelberg department, and Derek's award continues the long string of recognitions in his illustrious career, including of course the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Degree from the Roskilde University in Denmark. Derek Gregory Awarded the Founder‘s Medal of the Royal Geographical SocietyMay 2006Her Majesty the Queen has approved the award of the Founder‘s medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for ‘international leadership of research in human geography and social theory’ to Derek Gregory. This medal, to be presented by President Sir Neil Cossons, at the Society‘s Annual General Meeting on Monday 5th June, is one of the Society‘s two Gold Medals which are the highest medals awarded by the RGS. The Society‘s prestigious Medals and Awards recognise excellence in geographical research and fieldwork, teaching and public engagement. Five medals and Awards are presented annually in recognition of those who have made outstanding achievements. Graduate Student Awards at this Year's AAGMarch 2006The following students were recognized that this year's AAG meetings:
Derek Gregory Receives the Faculty of Graduate Studies Killam Mentoring AwardNovember 2005Derek Gregory has been chosen as joint recipient of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Mentoring award for 2005. The award will be presented at the Congregation ceremonies on November 23rd The Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring has been designated to recognize outstanding performance in the area of mentoring graduate students. Mentoring may be related to, but is perceived as differing from, classroom teaching and may be distinct and separable from the usual measures of research productivity. Professor Emeritus Walter Hardwick passed away 9 June.10 June 2005
Dr. Hardwick had a long and distinguished career in both academic and public service. In addition to his service to UBC in teaching, research, and on several important committees, he had a major influence upon the urban landscape of Vancouver. Elected to Vancouver City Council as a co-founding member of the reform-minded The Elector's Action Movement (TEAM), he served on Council from 1969 to 1974, and played a pivotal advisory role in the city's redevelopment of the False Creek area. From 1976 to 1980 he served as Deputy Minister of Education in the Social Credit government of Bill Bennett, and was instrumental in establishing both the Open Learning Institute and the Knowledge Network. Later in his career, he was invited to serve on, and chair, the Canadian Capital Commission, with a mandate related to the planning of Ottawa. For these and many other good works, Walter was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1997 and an honorary degree from UBC in 2000. For more than 20 years, Walter and his brother David, a Professor in the UBC Department of Pathology, were instrumental in publishing a series of occasional papers under the title ‘BC Geographical Series’, with Walter as academic editor and David as managing editor. This series provided an important platform for the publication of local and regional workshop papers and monographs, one of the best known being ‘The Climate of Vancouver’, by Tim Oke and John Hay. Many other details of Professor Walter Hardwick’s life and professional accomplishments are summarized at: http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/hardwick.html#bio Dr. Graeme Wynn appointed as new Head, Dept of GeographyJune 2005Dr. Graeme Wynn has accepted a four-year term as Head of the Department of Geography, beginning July 1, 2005. This appointment has been approved by the Provost and is subject to approval by the Board of Governors. Professor Tim Oke awarded the prestigious Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical SocietyMay 2005Professor Tim Oke is this year's recipient of the prestigious Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society The Medal is awarded to an individual who has made an exemplary contributions to advancing our understanding of the Geography of Canada. Tim is awarded the Medal for his outstanding work on the climates of cities and other near-surface environments. The RCGS publishes ‘Canadian Geographic’, and later this year Tim and his work will be profiled for the 4.6 million readers of the magazine. Previous recipients of the award from our department include: Cole Harris, Ross Mackay, and J. Lewis Robinson. The medal will be presented to Tim this fall, at a ceremony in Ottawa. 2005 AAG Awards for Department MembersApril 2005A large number of awards from the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the AAG in Denver were presented to members or our department:
Jared Stanley Memorial ScholarshipFebruary 2005It has been a few weeks since graduate student Jared Stanley passed away in an unfortunate and untimely tragedy on Mount Seymour. Many of us are seeking ways to honour his memory and the exceptional person that he was. As a tribute to Jared, the Geography Department and Jared’s family are establishing the Jared Stanley Memorial Scholarship for Physical Geography graduate students involved in Field Based Mountain Research. The award will be given annually to an outstanding graduate student entering the second year of either an M.Sc. or Ph.D program. If you would like to donate online to this fund, please visit http://www.supporting.ubc.ca/ and select the "I prefer to donate to" section. Type Jared Stanley's name into the text box and complete your online transaction. If you are interested in making a donation by cheque or through any other means, please contact Michelle Messinger, UBC Development Officer at 604-822-8904 or via e-mail at michelle.messinger@ubc.ca Dr. Tim Oke has won the Luke Howard Award from the International Association for Urban ClimateDecember 2004Dr. Tim Oke has won the Luke Howard Award from the International Association for Urban Climate. This is a newly created award, and Tim is the inaugural recipient. (Luke Howard was an early 19th century pioneer in atmospheric science, who developed the first scientific classification of clouds). The citation reads: "The IAUC is happy to announce that Professor Tim Oke of the University of British Columbia has been selected by its Awards Committee for the inaugural (2004) Luke Howard award. Tim was selected for his pioneering and seminal work on urban climatology. The committee could not think of another person more deserving of this honour. His cutting edge research over four decades have made him heir, in both stature and research, to Luke Howard and Helmut Landsburg as one of the founding fathers of the science of urban climate". This award caps a truly superlative series of awards to Tim over the past two to three years, including most recently his election as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Ken Denike retiring at the end of December 2004.December 2004Ken Denike retires at the end of December after more than 30 years of service to the University. In recognition of Ken's many contributions we have organized three events. First, we will be circulating a card in the next couple of weeks, as is our usual custom. We plan to present the card to Ken at a small ceremony in the Department, toward the middle of December. Secondly, we have invited Ken to attend the staff luncheon at the Hotel Vancouver in mid-December; and thirdly, because of the looming end of term activities and festive season, Dr. Denike and Dr. Bovis have planned to combine their retirement dinners into a single event sometime in June 05. Three new faculty appointees join our departmentJuly 2004A major event in the Department this past year as been a faculty search for the tenure-track position in Physical Geography, to replace Professor Olav Slaymaker, who retired June 30, 2004. Owing to an unusual set of circumstances, and a truly excellent pool of applicants, we were able to make two appointments at the rank of Assistant Professor, both commencing July 1, 2004. The first is Dr. Marwan Hassan, a world-renown fluvial geomorphologist with a strong international profile in sediment transport and drainage basin studies. We were also able to hire Dr. Brett Eaton, a UBC Ph.D who has been working under the direction of Michael Church. Brett's forte is theoretical and flume studies of alluvial channel stability. This is only the third time in 34 years that the Department has hired one of its own Ph.Ds. These hires, combined with the eminent leadership of Michael Church, ensure that we can maintain a pre-eminent position in fluvial and sediment transport studies. We also welcomed to our department in Spring 2004 Dr. Markus Weiler, who holds one of the FRBC Endowed Chairs in Forest Hydrology. Markus is cross-appointed to the Department of Forest Resources Management. His research specialty is hillslope hydrology in steepland forested basins, and his expertise will nicely complement that of Dan Moore, who holds the other FRBC endowed chair. Dr. Derek Gregory has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of CanadaMay 2004Prof. Derek Gregory has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. This is now the sixth FRSC in the history of the Department, the others being Dr. Ross Mackay, Dr. Tim Oke, Dr. Mike Church, Dr. David Ley, and Dr. Cole Harris. Dr. Trevor Barnes receives Distinguished University Scholar AwardNovember 2003Prof. Trevor Barnes has received a Distinguished University Scholar Award, one of only a few given in the Faculty of Arts this year. Geography has now won two of these awards, and this serves to maintain our already high standing within the Faculty. Dr. Greg Feldman joins the departmentJuly 2003Dr. Greg Feldman has joined the Department for a 2 year period, starting July 2003, to work with Dr. Hiebert in the development of a MA Program in Migration Studies. Dr. Feldman is also associated with the Institute of European Studies, and teaches in the Arts Foundations Program. Dr. Tim Oke Receives AwardsJune 2003Prof. Tim Oke received three awards this week:
Dr. Olav Slaymaker to Receive David Linton AwardJune 2003Prof. Olav Slaymaker is the 2003 recipient of the David Linton Award from the British Geomorphological Research Group. This prestigious award will be presented at the BGRG AGM in Oxford in September, in recognition of his many years of service, and distinguished contributions, to the discipline of geomorphology. Dr. Walter Hardwick receives Queen's Jubilee Gold MedalFebruary 2003At the Golden Jubilee Medal presentation ceremony at Government House in Victoria, B.C., Premier Gordon Campbell, and Lieutenant Governor, Iona Campagnollo presented the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal and a certificate to Dr. Hardwick's daughter Colleen Nystedt. Dr. Hardwick, former Professor of Geography at UBC, could not attend the proceedings due to ill health. Dr. David Ley Wins a Trudeau Foundation AwardFebruary 2003Prof. David Ley has received a Trudeau Foundation Award, one of only four given in the first year of the award. Dr. Ley was the only recipient from UBC. The other award recipients are from the University of Toronto (2), and l'Université de Montréal. The Foundation was set up to promote outstanding research in the social sciences and humanities, with particular emphasis on "...democratic values and human rights, citizenship and social equity, and human interaction with the environment". |
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Professor J. Lewis Robinson, founding head of Geography at UBC and long-time member of the UBC community, passed away at the age of 90 on July 19th 2008. 
Dr. Albert Farley took his PhD at the University of Wisconsin under the supervision of Arthur Robinson on The Historical Cartography of British Columbia. He joined the department as Instructor II and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1959. He retired from the department as Full Professor in 1986. He taught cartography to several cohorts of students, some of whom wrote the Head in 1986 describing Bert as a "fine Professor".
Professor Emeritus Walter Hardwick passed away last night. He was a friend,
a colleague, and an inspiration to many. Walter was born in Vancouver
in 1932 and commenced studies in Geography at UBC in 1950. He was awarded
an MA degree from Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota,
then returned to Vancouver to join our faculty group in 1960. His main
areas of expertise were urban geography, community and regional planning,
and political geography. He was the founder and main architect of the
Urban Studies Program within the Faculty of Arts, and was very active
in the promotion of the urban program at UBC until his retirement in 1997.