3 4 7 November 2012 Playing with Food security: A university library the pros an urgent issue for B.C. for the 21st century

In the kitchen with Vij Putting a little spice into Home Ec. 8

also inside Unpaid and invisible: Canada’s young caregivers 12 Martin Dee Photograph Playing with the pros TBirds get a taste of NHL big time with ‘Bieksa’s Buddies’ Wilson Wong Video Capture Video West Kate In the news Three UBC Thunderbird goalies take on NHL player Aaaron Volpatti in a shootout during the Bieksa's Buddies charity hockey game.

UBC Reports Highlights of UBC media coverage volume fifty eight: number eleven www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubc-reports in October 2012

Public Affairs Director lucie mcneill [email protected] Heather Amos Public Affairs Associate Director randy schmidt [email protected] West African seahorse video Iron fertilization project Communications and Marketing Design Manager arlene cotter [email protected] National Geographic, the Daily UBC experts commented on a Designers Express, Orange News, and CBC News controversial project to revive salmon ping ki chan [email protected] Now posted the first-ever footage of the populations by dumping 100 tonnes of mark pilon [email protected] West African seahorse. iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean to matt warburton [email protected] The video of the seahorse, taken off boost nutrient levels and plankton. the coast of Senegal, comes courtesy of Maite Maldonado, a biological Web Designer Project Seahorse and a joint research oceanographer who specializes in the lina kang [email protected] investigation between UBC, Imperial impact of trace minerals on ocean life, University Photographer College London, and the Zoological Timothy Parsons, a professor emeritus martin dee [email protected] Society of London. in the Department of Earth and Ocean “Our fieldwork — the first ever study Sciences, and Villy Christensen, Public Affairs Communications Coordinators of this species — is revealing the fishing a professor at the Fisheries Centre, heather amos [email protected] and trade pressures they face, and how discussed the project with NBC, Globe lorraine chan [email protected] populations can be sustained,” said and Mail, CBC, Huffington Post, jody jacob [email protected] Amanda Vincent, the co-founder Times Colonist and others. brian lin [email protected] and director of Project Seahorse and fiona morrow [email protected] associate professor at UBC. basil waugh [email protected] Cyberbullying Advertising pearlie davison [email protected] Fish getting smaller as the Jennifer Shapka, Shelley Hymel, oceans warm Elizabeth Saewyc, and Martin Guhn Circulation provided expert commentary to United lou bosshart [email protected] Climate change could lead to smaller fish Press International, Global National, Publisher in the future according to new research Toronto Star, CTV, Sun UBC Reports is published monthly by: on the world’s oceans by fisheries and others, about bullying, cyberbullying The University of scientists at UBC. and what can be done to prevent it. Public Affairs Office 310 – 6251 Cecil Green Park Road The study, featured in The Guardian, “To blame suicide on bullying is, I Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1 The Independent, The Telegraph, think, overly simplistic, because there’s and the Toronto Star, used computer usually a lot of factors that contribute Next issue: 6 December 2012 models to study more than 600 species so that a child gets to the point where… Submissions of fish. Researchers found that the body they just feel totally helpless,” said UBC Reports welcomes submissions. weight of fish could decline by 14–20 per Hymel, a professor in the Faculty of For upcoming UBC Reports submission guidelines: cent between the years 2000 and 2050. Education, to CBC The National. www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/about.html. Opinions and advertising published in UBC Reports “The unexpectedly big effect that do not necessarily reflect official university policy. climate change could have on body size Material may be reprinted in whole or in part with suggests that we may be missing a big Beef recall appropriate credit to UBC Reports. Letters (300 words or less) must be signed and include an address and piece of the puzzle of understanding phone number for verification. climate change effects,” said the study’s Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail,

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From being photographed with “This game rates right at the top of ways from facing NHL players. “I’ll probably never In the third period, though, the UBC News Room language development in babies Kevin Allen, an expert on food celebrities to battling the professionals my career because it was such a cool “We practiced with these guys a few professionals took over, dominating www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/news microbiology, spoke about food safety, they normally watch on TV, Wednesday experience to be able to play for the times and our guys picked up some tips,” experience anything the final 20 minutes of play and scoring Visit our online UBC News Room for the latest updates A UBC study found that infants’ foodborne illness, and food processing. Oct. 17 was a night unlike any other charities and to play with the professional said Dragicevic. “Any time you play five times. on research and learning. On this site you’ll find our news releases, advisories, news extras, as well as a daily language development was altered Microbiologist Brett Finlay talked for members of the UBC Thunderbirds guys we’ve been practicing with,” said against teams that really move the puck like that for the rest The action ended with a 20-man media summary and a real-time UBCNEWS twitter for babies born to mothers with about an E. coli vaccine for cattle that men’s hockey team. Barnstable. “I’ll probably never like they do, you’re going to get better.” shootout. The final shot saw UBC put all feed. You can also find resources including access to depression, and for babies born to could prevent massive beef recalls. In front of 5,000 fans at the sold out experience anything like that for the rest of An added thrill was Michael Bublé’s three of their goaltenders—Barnstable, more than 500 faculty experts and information about of my career. It’s UBC’s radio and TV studios. mothers treated with antidepressant Jim Vercammen, a professor of food Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports my career. It’s definitely a great memory.” visit to the TBird dressing room after White, and Steven Stanford—in net to drugs, reported CNN, LA Times, South and resource economics, discussed Centre, the Thunderbirds got to skate UBC did have one player with NHL the second period. He posed for a photo prevent Canucks forward Aaron Volpatti, Website: www.ubc.ca/news definitely a great Tel: 604.822.NEWS (6397) China Morning Post, Fox News, Globe issues around regulations for safer food. and score for charity against Bieksa’s experience. On Jan. 20, 2011, goaltender with the team, no doubt making amends from scoring. E-mail: [email protected] and Mail and many others. Buddies, a team of National Hockey Jordan White dressed as an emergency for mocking their iconic jerseys before memory.” After all that hoopla and glamour, Twitter: @ubcnews Psychology professor Janet Werker League players and local celebrities, led backup for the San Jose Sharks against the game. the Thunderbirds are back on focus— Publication mail agreement no. 40775044. found that babies of mothers who took by Vancouver Canucks defenceman the Vancouver Canucks. Several local hockey greats also and the Canucks Family Education aiming for the University Cup national Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to circulation department. a class of antidepressants known as Kevin Bieska. “During the San Jose game, I never saw dropped in on the team: former Centre. 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2 UBC Reports The University of British Columbia November 2012 3 Food Security: an urgent issue for B.C. Lorraine Chan Martin Dee Photographs

Asst. Prof. Hannah Wittman harvests fall produce from UBC's Orchard Garden with Will Valley, a UBC doctoral student and co-operative urban farmer.

At the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and fruit orchards in the Okanagan, million hectares of agricultural land in working with a non-profit, B.C.-based pool resources and reduce overhead, “B.C. is one of only Asst. Prof. Hannah Wittman studies how expansive grain farms in the Peace River food production—a 300 per cent increase organization that provides education and says Wittman. small-scale, sustainable farms can survive and highly productive market vegetable from 2001 levels. networking opportunities for small-scale “For example, two farmers in two provinces where and prosper in a globalized food economy. operations in the Lower Mainland.” “This is well within our grasp,” asserts farming as well as new models for Abbotsford are leasing one farm. Together With food recalls on the rise for E. coli, However, the province is not food Wittman, whose international research preserving agricultural land. they offer a vegetable market garden, a the number of salmonella or listeria contamination, self-sufficient. Over the past 30 years, focus includes agrarian reform settlements Founded in 2006, the Community fruit orchard, chickens, bees and goats.” the question of food sovereignty is an B.C. has seen a major increase in the in rural Brazil and community-based Farms Program provides support to Of B.C.’s 19,759 farms, 83 per cent are farmers increased in urgent one, says Wittman, who is also production of crops for lucrative export resource management in Guatemala. new farmers and communities seeking small-scale operations and 16 per cent appointed to UBC’s Institute of Resource, markets such as cranberries, blueberries “B.C.’s Agricultural Land Reserve covers alternative approaches to implementing are classified as organic farms—the the last five years.” Environment and Sustainability. and hothouse vegetables. But B.C. still approximately 4.7 million hectares, much food sovereignty. These include largest percentage in Canada. “Food sovereignty refers to the ability imports about 45 per cent of its food, of which is currently underutilized for facilitating the development of long-term “I’m very optimistic. B.C. is one of only of communities and regions to control with 60 per cent of those imports food production oriented to local and leases on public, cooperative and two provinces where the number of their food systems. This includes coming from the U.S. regional markets.” community-owned land. farmers increased in the last five years, markets, modes of production, and In 2006, the B.C. Ministry of Challenges faced by small-scale farmers, “The idea is to get land into the hands while there was a 10 per cent decrease in natural resources,” explains Wittman, Agriculture and Lands estimated that however, include spiraling land costs, of new, enthusiastic farmers eager to farmers at the national level.” who grew up on a farm in Idaho, her about 0.5 hectare of farmland is required expensive equipment, labour shortages connect urban consumers to the source Similarly, consumer demand for locally parents third-generation farmers. to sustain one person for one year. To and the absence of established policies of their food.” produced food has fueled a growth She notes that B.C. has the most diverse produce a 100 per cent self-sufficient and and coordinated distribution systems to And once on their farms, many in farmers’ markets, which currently agricultural landscape in Canada. “There healthy diet for the projected population get products to B.C. consumers. are turning to co-operative ventures contribute more than $3 billion to local are internationally recognized wineries by 2026, B.C. would need to have 2.78 To explore solutions, Wittman is and diversified business strategies to economies across Canada. • 4 UBC Reports The University of British Columbia November 2012 5 The perils of putting off pregnancy Heather Amos

And they lived happily ever after. So (IVF) can help them get pregnant. many young lovers picture their future The survey also showed that few people as a fairy tale, falling in love, setting up realize the cost, health implications and house—and when they’re ready, simply limitations of IVF treatments. Both men getting pregnant. Few couples are and women did not realize that a man’s PACIFIC SPIRIT PLACE at SUB prepared for the realities of fickle fertility. age is an important factor in a woman’s “In the media, you see celebrities getting chances of getting pregnant. Your favourite brands and more... pregnant and having babies later in life— Koert, a doctoral student in counselling into their mid 40s and even 50s,” says psychology and a MyFertilityChoices. A&W, SUBWAY, Manchu Wok, Koya Japan, Judith Daniluk, a professor of counselling com website and content manager, wasn’t Simply Pasta, Pho Noodle Bar, Soup & Salad Bar psychology in the Faculty of Education. At surprised by the survey results—she has Swirls campus-made baked goods & this age, most women are not using their heard these things from both her peers and STARBUCKS COFFEE own eggs: “You’re not getting the full story her clients. Koert works with individuals and this is driving a lot of misperceptions.” and couples that expected to have a family NEW Locations: Daniluk is an expert in women’s sexual health and reproduction; as a counseling • Baja Mexican at Trek Express psychologist she works with men and “Many women who • Law Café at Allard Hall women who are dealing with fertility decisions and challenges. She says many delay childbearing are • Magma Café at Earth Sciences Building are surprised that getting pregnant, • Café at Pharmaceutical Sciences - opening soon especially later in life, can be so difficult. devastated when they Not surprisingly, people are turning to the Internet for health and fertility answers. *UBCcard Plan accepted at our Campus Partners: Blue Chip Cookies, Honour Roll, reach the end of their PieRSquare, Bookstore, Booster Juice, Domino’s Pizza, Mahony & Sons, Pita Pit. Unfortunately much of the information found online is by fertility clinics childbearing years promoting their services. Daniluk wanted to create a website with accurate, impartial and have been unable

and easy to understand information. Lin Photograph Eugene Myfertilitychoices.com provides to become a mother.” men and women with information about fertility, readiness, decision- University Librarian Ingrid Parent believes the future of libraries will depend on global collaboration. making, relationships and more. Users and are coming to terms with the fact that Find us @ www.food.ubc.ca can also share their personal stories or they won’t be able to get pregnant. The ask an expert their burning questions— most common things she hears is: “But I reproductive, medical or mental health didn’t know” or “I thought I had more time.” A university library for the 21st century specialists post answers to the site. Koert says women have little access to “We wanted people to have the accurate information about fertility. Many information they need so they can know don’t know how to talk to their partner Lorraine Chan and Linda Ong their options. It is about empowerment,” about wanting to have children, or find she said. themselves with a partner who is unwilling PRINT MORE, $AVE MORE Before launching Myfertilitychoices. to have children. Koert says the grief and VOLUME PRINTING & COPYING com, Daniluk and PhD candidate Emily loss that these women feel made her want Academic libraries worldwide are facing rapid technological Libraries also need to be more nimble in responding to The Library actively partners with Professional Digital Printing and Copying Service Koert surveyed childless Canadian men to get involved in the website project. change and seismic shifts in how users access information changes from the campus. For UBC, these factors include faculty in curriculum design, teaching • High Speed B/W & Full Colour • Lamination • Full Colour Posters and women to assess their knowledge of “Many women who delay childbearing and create knowledge in the digital age. Old models are no the rise of campus learning hubs and precincts, the creation critical thinking, digital literacy and • Wide Format B/W Copies, Prints and Scans • Self Serve Copiers fertility and assisted human reproduction. are devastated when they reach the longer sustainable. Libraries must re-think the future. of new departments or schools, and issues such as open access information fluency. It also develops and • Booklet Making • Coil, Cerlox, Velo & Wire-O binding • Folding ... They found that most Canadians knew end of their childbearing years and UBC Library has announced a number of collection and and copyright. integrates library teaching programs • Email your files or ftp your large files to us only a few basic facts about fertility. have been unable to become a mother,” service consolidations at various campus branches and sites. more fully within the curriculum. Proudly Serving Since 1987 www.copiesplus.ca Although most of the 3,345 women said Koert. “They often feel a sense of The process started in May 2012 and will continue to 2014. What are the earmarks of a 21st-century library? 1950 West Broadway 604-731-7868 and 599 men surveyed knew that powerlessness in being able to create the University Librarian Ingrid Parent discusses with We’re focusing on providing digital tools and collections How will this benefit users? Open 7 Days Mon-Fri 8am-9pm Sat-Sun 10am-6pm fertility decreases with age, a significant right circumstances to have children.” UBC Reports how these changes will allow the Library to that support knowledge creation and collaboration Researchers, students and the public majority incorrectly believe that good Since the website launched in mid-June, strengthen its position as a valued partner in research, among researchers and students. We’re implementing a increasingly want more than “read only” health and fitness is a better indicator it has been visited more than 7,500 times, teaching and learning on campus. comprehensive digitization program to provide unlimited access to content. Students also want to of fertility than age. Most women and and has had over 49,000 pages viewed As the President of the International Federation of Library online access to materials of research and teaching value. reuse, mash up, data mine and integrate FRESH, LOCAL, SUSTAINABLE men are also incorrect in their belief by people in 116 different countries. The Associations and Institutions, Parent brings a unique global UBC Library is building capacity to develop and promote diverse data sources. that until menopause, reproductive most popular post so far is about men perspective on the changes unfolding at UBC and elsewhere. open access and open source methods and tools. As well, the Students and faculty can expect to ON CAMPUS... technologies like in vitro fertilization having children after the age of 50. Library is sharing expertise on new publishing models, see librarians working alongside them • What are the challenges facing UBC Library and other research intellectual property and rights management. in research labs, at the hospitals, in the Menu featuring: libraries around the world? Collaboration is key. Libraries have always been good at field and in the classroom as they become UBC Farm Ingredients | Free Range Poultry | Ocean WiseTM | Fair Trade Coffee & Tea The same services and models that worked for research that, but they are entering an era of deep and pervasive more and more embedded into teaching, Top three fertility myths libraries a decade ago need to be re-imagined for today’s users. interdependencies – with each other and with the communities learning and research on campus. Loans of physical items are decreasing, for example, while the around them. The future of libraries and library “values” in the use of electronic resources continues to rise. More than 70 digital world will increasingly depend on us working together How is UBC Library collaborating with Myth Truth per cent of UBC Library’s collections budget is now focused on at the international, regional, national and local levels. stakeholders as these changes occur? Men’s age is not an important Men’s sperm can become less viable once they reach e-resources, compared to 25 per cent about a decade earlier. We encourage feedback as factor in a woman’s chances their mid-40s. Recent research suggests that children Budgets are under pressure; services need to be consolidated; Can you describe the digitization efforts underway? implementation begins with a number of getting pregnant. born to older fathers are at greater risk of having collections are increasingly going digital. We have to deal The Library invested in a digitization unit as one of our key of the Library’s changes. This could learning disabilities, autism, and some forms of cancer. with these in a fiscally responsible manner that ensures the strategic priorities two years ago. Their work provides a include informal and formal meetings, sustainability of the Library. virtual gateway to the Library’s collections of stories, histories research provided from working groups BRUNCH The role of librarians has evolved greatly. Along with their and archives. But their expertise can also be shared with the and committees, and discussions held SAT & SUN, 11AM TO 3PM Myth Truth archival and information expertise, librarians are now also larger community. We have been working with First Nations with university administration. We Licensed Patio | Local Foods A woman’s health and fitness A woman’s age is one of the MOST IMPORTANT factors curators, publishers, authors, instructors and information groups who want to digitize their written and oral information understand that the changes impact are better indicators of fertility in determining a woman’s ability to get pregnant. specialists. They work closely with campus partners as a way to preserve their history and future. It is but one some faculties more than others; we than age. A woman’s eggs are as old as she is. to integrate library resources within virtual learning example of how library expertise, combined with cultural remain committed to working with 11am to 10pm [Everyday] environments. They’re using state-of-the-art digital tools to heritage, can have a profound impact on community groups. them to develop new models. 11am to 3pm [Sat & Sun Brunch] instill information literacy and knowledge management skills. • Photo: UBC Farm What will UBC Library look like in 2025? Limited FREE parking available. Myth Truth Reproductive technologies like IVF IVF cannot fully compensate for age-related fertility declines. What are the economic factors? Users will place more demands on seamlessly accessing the can help most women get pregnant The chances of a woman having a child with her own eggs We have to balance our budget, something we share with Library through technology. In some educational institutions, Reservations & Events PH: 604-822-9503 until they reach menopause after the age of 44 are under two per cent. You might consider all campus departments and as a public sector institution. students are already downloading the library catalogue with Marine Drive Building #4 2205 Lower Mall ‘stopping the clock’ by freezing your eggs before your mid-30s. We have made some difficult choices on how to proceed given their smartphones. Campus space will continue to evolve A video interview with University www.pointgrill.ca these pressures, from combining services and collections, with the influence of the university’s campus plan and more Librarian Ingrid Parent can be found at: to physical branch closures, to staffing decisions. specialized use of existing spaces. library.ubc.ca

6 UBC Reports The University of British Columbia November 2012 7 Vij’s Kitchen spices up UBC Good food. Good grades. Lorraine Chan and Jennifer Honeybourn Heather Amos

Steve Golob knows what his clients want: Fast, nutritious, local, sustainable, internationally diverse comfort foods. Feeding students in residence dining rooms is a worthy

challenge for his talents. Martin Dee Photograph “Healthy stomachs lead to healthy minds and healthy marks,” says Golob, residence chef at UBC’s Place Vanier dining hall, which serves about 3,000 meals to students daily.

“UBC was the first university in British Columbia to join the Farm to Cafeteria initiative.”

Golob wants students to think about the food they eat. Healthy foods keep students alert in class, help fight off illness and are important for maintaining a positive outlook on life. To draw attention to that essential connection, UBC Food Services will be hosting an event during Thrive, UBC’s annual mental health awareness week, to present healthy food options and explain how food can impact mental wellbeing. Golob is quick to point out that students want to eat healthy too­—the salad bar and the stir-fry station are Vanier’s two busiest spots. And there is a big emphasis on everything local. Food for life: Chef Steve Golob makes the connection “Is it local and is it fresh? This is it between healthy stomachs and healthy minds. what we’ve been hearing for the past few years—at UBC, from our colleagues at other schools, from hospitals, hotels, through the Think&Eat Green @School project. Golob also everywhere,” he explains. teaches kids cooking skills using only healthy recipes with the Last year, UBC Food Services Sprouting Chefs program. purchased about $10,000 of produce And that’s not all. Golob is about to start his own CiTR from the UBC Farm—a figure they are on show to get folks thinking about where their food comes track to surpass this year. In total, from. His soup creations—made with local and in season

Martin Dee Photograph 50 per cent of UBC Food Services food vegetables—are posted daily to the SoupScoop blog, run by is grown, processed or produced within one of his biggest fans. 150 miles of the campus. There's no hiding Golob's passion. “UBC is a living lab. It is Vikram Vij shares his love of good produce with UBC dietetics student Whitney Hussain. “We’re located right next to the our job to figure out how to do this right and then to educate UBC Farm, it would be criminal not to our students and the community.” use their fresh produce.” • Vikram Vij has shared Indian recipes food preparation in a domestic setting lab are dietetics students who are “For years, I’ve been sourcing organic produce Six years ago, none of the farm’s To check out some of Golob’s creations, and cooking techniques with countless and multicultural culinary exchange, making dishes as varied as fruit pies, produce was used by UBC Food Services. visit: soupscoop.wordpress.com/ people over the years through says LFS Prof. Gwen Chapman, and butternut squash soup. Later this and herbs from UBC Farm for my restaurants.” Golob has been a big part of this transfor- his cookbooks and classes. Now, associate dean, academic. month, Whitney Hussain, a fourth-year mation, working with the Faculty of Land Vancouver’s celebrity chef is lending his “In addition to the basic skills, the goal is dietetics major, will also be using the and Food Systems (LFS) and professor name—and teaching talents—to UBC. to provide dietetics and home economics facility to cook a five-course meal for 100 of modern kitchen equipment that is used both for communal cooking and Alejandro Rojas and making it a priority “I’d love to see the creation of a course students the opportunity to explore guests as one of the volunteer chefs for accessible to FNH students. It allows us education around food theory and food to source local food, from the Farm and geared towards multicultural cuisines. diverse cuisines,” says Chapman, who is the annual LFS fall harvest community to transfer the theory we learn in class preparation,” says Chapman. other producers. I believe when you eat food from all over also the director of the Food, Nutrition dinner. Prepared and served by students, to the practical setting.” Vij says his involvement with the culinary Today, UBC is recognized as a leader the world, you become more tolerant and Health (FNH) program. “Students the semi-formal dinner costs $45–$35 for Other users of Vij’s Kitchen include lab underscores a longtime connection to in this area. It was the first university towards other human beings,” says familiar with Asian traditions will learn students—and includes wine and beer. UBC Continuing Studies, which offers a UBC. His wife, Meeru Dhalwala, helped in British Columbia to join the Farm Vij who contributed $250,000 for the Western cooking techniques and vice versa. “We’re going to make coq au vin and series of regional cuisine courses to found the annual Joy of Feeding to Cafeteria initiative, a network that extensive makeover of a UBC culinary Comprising six kitchen stations and vegetarian nut loaf for our mains and such as Chef Eric’s French cooking celebration of ethnic home cooking which brings healthy, sustainable and local food lab originally built in 1982. a demonstration kitchen, Vij’s Kitchen finish with poached pears in wine,” classes, and UBC Food Services which takes place in June at UBC Farm. to schools, universities and hospitals. The facility, now called Vij’s Kitchen, has new audiovisual equipment. This says Hussain. “We want to source all gives in-service training to chefs. A “For years, I’ve been sourcing organic Now Golob and LFS students are is located on UBC’s Vancouver campus in allows for filming, videoconferencing our ingredients locally.” student cooking club also convenes produce and herbs from UBC Farm for spreading the message the Food, Nutrition and Health Building and distance education, such as a recent The prospect of making a huge, twice a month. my restaurants. I also support UBC’s to the community. They frequently on East Mall. course on healthy food ideas for childcare complex meal is exciting, “As far as I know, this is the only mandate to educate global citizens and work with schools in B.C. to help kids The renovated lab provides a vital providers in Aboriginal communities. she says, adding. “I really like the fact place on campus where there are to provide leadership for sustainable, and teachers discover the healthy meals learning space for basic food theory, The majority of students using the that the labs have a large selection group cooking facilities that can be urban farming.”• that can be made with local ingredients 8 UBC Reports The University of British Columbia November 2012 9 Save your city! Deluxe Hotel Suites, West Coast Style How a videogame could help communities avert disaster Basil Waugh

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VANCOUVER OKANAGAN It is 2030 and rising ocean levels are Collaborative for Advanced Landscape or are too busy to attend open houses.” project shows the vital role the an interactive, virtual representation T 604 822 1060 T 250 807 8050 Players take the role E [email protected] E [email protected] threatening to flood low-lying Metro Planning (CALP). Sheppard says it Players take the role of the mayor of arts can play in communicating of Delta, with a series of science-based ubcconferences.com okanagan.ubcconferences.com Vancouver neighborhoods. will be the world’s first videogame to Future Delta, racing to stave off flooding of the mayor of science. “Scientists are great at climate scenarios,” says Sheppard, Welcome to Future Delta, a new immerse citizen-players in an interactive, before the city runs out of energy. Players making discoveries, but not always who calls Delta a Canadian leader in videogame created by UBC researchers virtual version of their own real-life city, must reduce the city’s carbon footprint Future Delta, racing good at communicating their findings climate change adaptation. “Our next to help the citizens of Delta, B.C. reduce allowing them to explore future possibili- and manage resources by investing in in inspiring ways—particularly for focus will be the game elements—the their carbon footprint and prepare for ties using the best available scientific data clean energy (solar, wind, geothermal), to stave off flooding something as big and complex as story, the rewards—making it as fun and climate change, including major flooding on the regional climate. creating denser, greener neighborhoods, climate change,” says Dulic, director of interactive as possible. We are excited to 10% risks related to global warming. “Videogames can help to inspire growing food locally, and expanding before the city runs the Centre for Culture and Technology hear people’s ideas, especially from high In November and December, the and engage people on important public transit, electric vehicles and on UBC’s Okanagan campus. “This is school students.” OFF researchers will begin presenting a issues, if they are compelling enough,” bike lanes. To prepare for rising oceans, out of energy. where other disciplines, from artists to • Vancouver’s Best Noodle House 2012 E ective Date: Oct 28,2012 - Jan 1st,2013 prototype game to schools, city staff, says Sheppard, whose dramatic players can build floating homes and psychologists, can help to communicate Play an early version of the game and Photocopies of this gaming experts and community groups. computer-based visualization of local raise dykes. science in more meaningful and learn more at: futuredelta.ok.ubc.ca. coupon is not accepted. They want to gather ideas to help make flooding risks and potential solutions “For communities to take action West Vancouver, and Kimberley. “For inspiring ways.” Project collaborators include Sheffield Berton Ave Shrum Lane a 2.0 version of the game entertaining immediately turned heads at Delta City on climate change, citizens need to this to happen, greater understanding Sheppard and Dulic expect the University’s Olaf Schroth and Simon and engaging enough to inspire Hall. “We want to reach folks who don’t be on board,” says Sheppard, adding of trade-offs and climate-friendly videogame to be available in 2014, thanks Fraser University's Steve DiPaola. learning and action. typically participate in city-planning the video is part of a series of CALP practices is needed.” to funding from SSHRC. They expect Tel: 604.228.8765 102 - 3313 Shrum Lane, The project is led by UBC Prof. Stephen processes —young people and others computer-based visualizations that UBC Prof. Aleksandra Dulic, a digital the game to dramatically improve with UBC Wesbrook Village, Vancouver Sheppard, an expert on visualizing who are concerned about climate has produced low-carbon converts media expert making Sheppard’s design help from the schools and Island www.chefhungnoodle.com climate change and director of UBC’s change but don’t know how to engage, across B.C., including North Vancouver, visualizations interactive, says the stakeholders this winter. “We’ve created

10 UBC Reports The University of British Columbia November 2012 11 Unpaid and invisible: Canada’s young caregivers carry a heavy burden NomiNatioNs Now opeN Basil Waugh 2013 UBC Library InnovatIve DIssemInatIon of ReseaRch awaRD Recipient announced at the Celebrate Research Week Gala in March 2013. Kai Bighorn missed out in the normal teenage life while caring for his sick father. Award: $2,000

Deadline: November 26, 2012 For eligibility criteria, visit scholcomm.ubc.ca

FACULTY OF ARTS UBC KILLAM TEACHING PRIZES Innovative_Award_2013_AD.inddOnce again the University 1 is recognizing excellence in teaching through the awarding of prizes to 12-10-12 3:15 PM faculty members. Up to six (6) prize winners will be selected in the Faculty of Arts for 2013. Eligibility is open to faculty who have three or more years of teaching at UBC. The three years include 2012 - 2013. The awards recognize distinguished teaching at all levels; introductory, advanced, graduate courses, graduate supervision, and any combination of levels. Members of faculty, students, or alumni may suggest candidates to the head of the department, the director of the institute/school, or chair of the program in which the nominee teaches. These suggestions should be in writing and signed by one or more students, alumni or faculty, and they should include a very brief statement of the basis for the nomination. You may write a letter of nomination or pick up a form from the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts in Buchanan A240. The deadline is 4:00 p.m. on January 11, 2013. Submit nominations to the department, school or program office in which the nominee teaches. Prize winners will be announced mid-April, and they will be identified during Spring convocation in May. Martin Dee Photograph

When Kai Bighorn was in high school, he Canadians who, for a variety of reasons, The study also included interviews A surprisingly large proportion of students–12 per cent identified spent more time counting pills for his end up providing significant caregiving with 50 former young caregivers, many dad than doing “normal teenage things.” support to their families – both unpaid of whom reported positive aspects of the themselves as significant family caregivers. Bighorn’s toil as a teenage caregiver and outside the healthcare system. experience, including stronger family ties started gradually, but ended up a “For the most part, these kids are and a sense of pride and accomplishment. full-time responsibility as his father’s slipping under the radar,” says Charles. However, there were also many potential most people think. Australia, for example, Charles points to the United Kingdom, community. “Just getting to enjoy a meal heart failure led to complications such as “They play this crucial role in society, negative outcomes: isolation, stress, calculates young caregivers’ value to its which offers a national program for young together and listen to other people’s severe diabetes, visual impairments and a but we are not recognizing their work, depression, and adverse social, educational health care system at a whopping $18 caregivers, including training, counseling experiences really helped me,” he says. life-threatening infection. or supporting them adequately. It is and employment impacts. According billion annually, he says. and social opportunities. In contrast, only “The time I spent caring for my father, “It was emotionally and physically important that we help to reduce the to Charles, negatives outcomes are Charles says greater awareness and a handful of grassroots programs exist in I will cherish forever,” says Bighorn, draining,” says Bighorn, now 28, who negative outcomes of these situations, most likely with youth caring for family support for young caregivers—areas where Canada, including one in Niagara Falls, who put off university to care for his quit part-time jobs to become his father’s while increasing the positives for the members with severe mental or physical Canada lags far behind other nations – can Ont. and another in Duncan, B.C., where father. “But it was also a big job. Looking primary caregiver. “I feel incredibly lucky young person and their families.” conditions over prolonged periods. dramatically reduce the likelihood of Charles and Bighorn serve as advisors. back, I really wish I had access to advice to have been so close to my dad before Charles recently led the first study on Published by the Vanier Institute of potential negative outcomes. “We need “It blew my mind when I learned from people who knew what I was going he passed—but I also feel like I missed young caregivers in Canada (aged 12-17), the Family, the study is an important first to do a much better job recognizing the there were other young caregivers through. So that’s what I am trying to do out on part of my youth,” says Bighorn, which included a survey of students in step in determining the size and nature issue—from government and schools to in my community—I really thought I now. I want to raise awareness to help whose caregiving increased when his a Vancouver high school. The research of the issue in Canada. The next step the health care system,” he says. “We can was the only one,” says Bighorn, who other young caregivers out there.” father’s homecare program fell through. team, which included Tim Stainton and is an adolescent health survey in 2013 help to reduce the incredible stress and helped to create a series of online • Bighorn’s experience is typical of Sheila Marshall, found that a surprisingly that will ask all B.C. high school students isolation that young caregivers face by resources for the Cowichan Family Watch “Ending The Silence,” a young caregiver, says Prof. Grant large proportion of students—12 per cent young caregiver questions, thanks to acknowledging the important role they Caregivers Support Society, including a documentary by Bighorn and other Charles, UBC School of Social Work. —identified themselves as significant Charles’ efforts. Whatever the eventual are playing helping their family navigate a documentary that he has presented youth caregivers: vimeo.com/15647694. This is a largely invisible group of young family caregivers. figure is, he says the issue is bigger than the gaps in our healthcare system.” to government, schools and the local View the study: www.vanierinstitute.ca.

12 UBC Reports The University of British Columbia November 2012 13 UBC Staff Pension Plan Election Students help a B.C. The UBC Staff Pension Plan is currently holding an election for two directors, who upon election will serve four-year terms on the Pension Board. Election packages were mailed to members on Wednesday, October 31, 2012. community ditch the car outtakes Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. If you have not yet received your election package, you may contact the Pension Office by As we approach Rememberance Day, UBC's Ben Pong phone at 604.822.8100. Election results will be announced on the Plan's Jody Jacob website at www.pensions.ubc.ca/staff on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. reflects on his military service.

Ben Pong, supervisor of the Computer Shop at the UBC Bookstore, a former member of the UBC Board of Governors and Canadian Forces reservist, took a leave of absence from UBC to serve in NATO's Afghanistan mission in 2010 and in the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in 2012. He shares his thoughts with UBC Reports on Remembrance Day.

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Since the opening of the War Memorial Gym in 1951, Photograph Jody Jacob of Ben Pong courtesy Photograph The University of British Columbia From left to right Alex Schuirmann, Luke Friesen, Sandra Iroegbu, and Cody Marwood. Ben Pong was part of UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. has held a ceremony commemorating How to coax residents from a Vernon, B.C., neighbourhood to as identifying barriers to active How did you come to serve for the Canadian military abroad? to the kids, but we had changed. Still, my team and I took comfort November 11. This year will park their cars and get active is the problem facing four students transportation. In 2009, I took a leave of absence and volunteered for active in knowing that the lives of some Kandaharians have improved mark sixty-one years that in the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Using the data and current research service in Afghanistan with the Canadian Armed Forces. due to our projects. The University of British Columbia The initiative—supported by UBC’s Okanagan campus, into active transportation models that It was a warm fall evening when my fellow soldiers and I Interior Health, and the City of Vernon—will see students have been successful in other cities, took a helicopter to the base of the Provincial Reconstruction What was it like to come back home? has hosted a Remembrance Day develop a Vernon Neighbourhood Active Travel Plan for East students will then create a series of Team (PRT) in Kandahar City. The reality of war came to us We arrived back in Edmonton in the middle of the night. ceremony. This is an opportunity for Hill Residents. Active travel focuses on walking,cycling and recommendations to encourage active early on, as Justin, one of the people on that flight, was killed A bus took us from the airport to our base. Still in our desert faculty, staff, students and members of transit as a primary means of transportation. modes of travel. within days of our arrival. fatigues, we saw Canadians line up along the route with flags “As a final step, student engineers will and yellow ribbons to welcome us home. the on and off-campus community to create an implementation strategy for What was your role in the mission? For my “sins,” I was granted a UN peacekeeping tour in South honour and remember all those who “Vernon is a highly automobile the East Hill Neighbourhood Active By 2006, popular opinion in Kandahar had shifted from Sudan. It is less developed than Afghanistan, but despite the served in times of war, military conflict Travel Plan that could serve as a model pro-coalition to indifference, or even pro-Taliban, because intertribal conflicts and abject poverty, it is also a more hopeful for other Vernon neighbourhoods, and economic development promised by the West had not been place. The majority of the combatants and civilian victims are and peace. dependent community, present it to the City of Vernon,” says realized. The focus of the mission had also changed: From young adults and sometimes children. With the lessons learned This year, the Remembrance Day with most trips taken via Lovegrove. “This plan will include combat to security, governance and development. from Rwanda, we were able to protect some civilians and give infrastructure upgrade designs needed My job at the PRT was to coordinate the use of military resources warning to others. Knowing that does give me some comfort. ceremony at UBC will be held single–occupant vehicles.” to enhance and encourage the active with local government officials. I led a team of specialists in project on Sunday, November 11 in the travel plan, as well as an educational management, liaison and cultural awareness. What are your thoughts on the 11th hour of November 11th? War Memorial Gym. Everyone is component.” I will be laying a wreath at the War Memorial Gym on behalf “Vernon is a highly automobile dependent community, with “The opportunity to put engineering What were the highlights of your job? of the University Officer Training Corp. My thoughts will be welcome to attend—doors open at most trips taken via single–occupant vehicles,” explains Gord theory into practice is important to One of the most interesting aspects was advising the Mayor with those who have gone, those who have fallen, the civilian 10:00 a.m. The ceremony will Lovegrove, associate professor in the School of Engineering at us,” says Friesen. “ We have a unique of Kandahar City. Mayor Hamidi was an accountant and had victims and those who are still there physically or mentally. commence at 10:45 a.m. and will UBC’s Okanagan campus and project supervisor. “If this trend chance to prove to the university and a well-earned, rare reputation of being an honest government Lest we forget. continues as Vernon grows, residents will experience increased to professionals in the community that official. Without a planning department, he would use • last for approximately one hour. traffic congestion, vulnerability to an increase in chronic we’re ready to enter the workforce, as the PRT as his city planners. The mayor would outline his www.ceremonies.ubc.ca Light refreshments will be served diseases and obesity, decreased air quality, and increased well as make a difference in the lives requirements and it was our task to acquire funding and after the ceremony and all are greenhouse gas emissions.” of the East Hill residents by reducing conduct these quick impact projects. Not surprisingly, his The City of Vernon is keen to tackle these issues head on and congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, priorities and those of the donor nations often did not match. welcome to stay. its Transportation Plan 2008-2031 focuses on transit, cycling obesity, and asthma.” We would come up with compromises that both sides could and walking initiatives, setting the target for 2031 of 20 per accept. Tragically, Mayor Hamidi was killed by a suicide 2012 Remembrance Day Ceremony • cent of trips by foot or bicycle. bomber attack in 2011. Sunday, November 11, 2012 | 10:45 a.m. “This pilot project is expanding on the successes of City’s UBC War Memorial Gym previous planning, programming, engineering and infrastruc- Did serving in a dangerous mission affect you personally? ture upgrades, says Wendy Majewski, Transportation Demand Our main threat was improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Management Coordinator with the City of Vernon.“We are On Dec. 30., 2009, having finishing my patrol, I walked by to chat very excited about the opportunity to work in partnership with with Kurt, a member of my team. A few hours later, Kurt and four Interior Health and UBC.” others were killed by an IED. The team gathered that evening and Fourth-year engineering students Luke Friesen, Sandra the event quickly turned from a sombre remembrance into a fond Iroegbu, Cody Marwood and Alex Schuirmann will begin roast. Kurt, a Cape Bretoner with a good sense of humour, would their work by surveying East Hill residents to develop have wanted it that way. Within 48 hours we went out on patrol, a benchmark database of current travel modes, as well canvassing villagers on their needs while smiling and waving back

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