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Mikroreaktor statt Tierversuch
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/2/25 17:12)
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Europaweit arbeiten Forscher an Messverfahren, mit denen sich schädliche Nebenwirkungen von Medikamenten ohne Tierversuche bewerten lassen. Viele dieser alternativen Methoden aber bereiten noch Probleme. In einem europäischen Verbundprojekt wurde deshalb ein Mikrobioreaktor entwickelt, in dem sich Leberzellproben sehr gut kultivieren lassen. Anders als im Tierversuch kann man damit erstmals live mitverfolgen, wie eine Substanz auf das Gewebe wirkt. Der Bioreaktor ist somit ein erster Schritt, um zukünftig einen Teil der zur Medikamentenentwicklung notwendigen Tierversuche zu reduzieren.
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Florin Gheorghe, MECH alumnus and CEO of Arbutus Medical, accepted into Sauder?s Innovation HubArbut
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/2/20 9:45)
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Former Mechanical Engineering student Florin Gheorghe and his team at Arbutus Medical have been accepted into Sauder’s Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub, a prestigious one-year program that helps promising entrepreneurs turn great ideas into successful businesses. Arbutus Medical was started by Gheorghe (now the company’s CEO) and a group of other students from UBC’s Engineers in Scrubs program who envisioned an integrated and sterile surgical drill cover that would transform low-cost hardware store drills into safe and accurate surgical drills for use in Uganda. The prohibitive $30,000 cost of regular surgical drills forced Ugandan surgeons to resort to imprecise and slow hand drills or unsterile hardware drills, often resulting in disfigurement, severe infection and loss of life. With the help of Entrepreneurship at UBC (e@UBC) and the Federal Government?s Grand Challenges Canada initiative, Arbutus Medical’s drill covers have now been produced a ...
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UBC Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering programs to receive $2M from Seaspan ShipyardsSeapsan
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/2/19 5:29)
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The 2015-16 MEng and MEL NAME students at Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards.
The University of British Columbia announced today that it will receive a $2 million investment from Seaspan Shipyards (Seaspan) over the next seven years to support innovative teaching and research in the naval architecture and marine engineering programs within UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science. As a result, two new UBC chair positions will be created, one in naval architecture and one in marine systems engineering, both of which are expected to be recruited this summer.
UBC currently offers two professional graduate programs in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering: a purely technical Master of Engineering (M.Eng) program, currently on its third cohort, and a business-oriented Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) program, which accepted its first cohort in January. The Mechanical Engineering department has also offered a naval architecture specialization option within their undergradua ...
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Florin Gheorghe, MECH alumnus and CEO of Arbutus Medical, accepted into Sauder?s Innovation HubArbut
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/2/18 9:45)
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Former Mechanical Engineering student Florin Gheorghe and his team at Arbutus Medical have been accepted into Sauder’s Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub, a prestigious one-year program that helps promising entrepreneurs turn great ideas into successful businesses. Arbutus Medical was started by Gheorghe (now the company’s CEO) and a group of other students from UBC’s Engineers in Scrubs program who envisioned an integrated and sterile surgical drill cover that would transform low-cost hardware store drills into safe and accurate surgical drills for use in Uganda. The prohibitive $30,000 cost of regular surgical drills forced Ugandan surgeons to resort to imprecise and slow hand drills or unsterile hardware drills, often resulting in disfigurement, severe infection and loss of life. With the help of Entrepreneurship at UBC (e@UBC) and the Federal Government?s Grand Challenges Canada initiative, Arbutus Medical’s drill covers have now been produced a ...
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February 2016 Alumnus Spotlight: Dick Capp,?58
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/2/17 7:26)
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Name: Dick Capp
Year of Graduation: 1958
Major: Dramatic Art
What are your strongest memories about your time in the Department of Dramatic Arts or on the campus as a whole?
Well, one of the biggest things is that Zellerbach Hall wasn?t built yet, so we did shows in the basement of Dwinelle (the ?Little Theater?) and in a converted lecture hall (Hearst Hall). It was still an active lecture hall, so you had to build sets that you could take down and put up again for each of the four performances. Personally, I was more interested in directing and technical theater than acting. I was a member of Mask and Dagger and Thalian Society; members of those two groups were always involved in any dramatic presentation. We always had lots of fun on those enterprises.
I also directed the Axe Review for 2 years, which took about 3-4 months each time. The Axe Review was part of Berkeley Big Game leadup, taking place the week prior to the game. It was a big variety show ...
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February 2016 Student Spotlight: Sarah Stoker
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/2/13 9:13)
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Sarah is a junior majoring in theater and performance studies. She is currently co-creating the workshop ?Politics of Spectatorship,? which will be performed at TDPS in March.
Sarah Stoker?s decision to come to UC Berkeley was influenced by a fish. A goldfish, if you want to be precise. Sarah was visiting Berkeley from her home state of Hawaii, trying to decide if Cal was a good fit for her, when she visited some family friends and noticed their fishtank. ?There was this enormous goldfish in a large tank, way bigger than any goldfish I?d ever seen,? Sarah shares. ?And I learned that a goldfish can grow much larger than you might expect, if you put it in an environment where it is allowed to do so.? Deciding that the same could be said of her, Sarah decided to take the leap from close-knit island community to Cal?s campus.
Though Sarah embraced and enjoyed new situations in Berkeley?joining the rowing team, becoming a reporter for CalTV, pursuing acting in TDPS?she sometimes f ...
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February 2016 Faculty/Staff Spotlight: Glynn Bartlett
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/2/13 9:00)
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Glynn Bartlett is the Scenic Artist at TDPS and is also a passionate puppet designer and builder. In November 2015, he traveled to South Africa to help design and construct puppets for the Barrydale Reconciliation Day Puppet Parade, an annual collaboration between the community of Barrydale in the Klein Karoo region and South Africa?s Handspring Puppet Company, known internationally as the creators of the ?War Horse? puppets.
THE LURE OF PUPPETRY
I?ve been interested in puppetry ever since I was a kid, probably since I was around 6 or 7. I was one of the first generations to be exposed to Sesame Street, which of course has Jim Henson?s muppets, and that was certainly an early influence. As I grew older I continued to have an interest in puppetry. In college, I took a puppetry class and built my first real marionette, and also made my first large-scale puppet for a production of The King and I . The director decided that it would be great if the evil King Simon of L ...
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February 11, 2016?Eyeballing It in the OR Is No Longer Good Enough (Antony Hodgson)Hodgson A?Seminar
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/2/11 7:52)
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Undergraduate Student Research (USRA) positions available now!DSC_3472
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/2/4 3:03)
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Interested in research? The NSERC USRA program is an excellent way for undergraduate students to gain exposure to university research. It can also help students decide if they want to pursue research in the future, whether through graduate studies or industrial research positions. We will be posting USRA positions on our website as they come in, so be sure to check back regularly! http://mech.ubc.ca/undergraduate/current/research-opportunities/
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MECH alumnus Andrea Palmer joins Innovation Hub, makes headlinesandrea-palmer-wide
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/2/2 4:39)
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Andrea Palmer, founder and CEO of Awake Labs, came up with “Reveal” while she was a student in Mechanical Engineering at UBC.
An autism monitor developed by UBC Mechanical Engineering alumnus Andrea Palmer has earned her start-up company, Awake Labs, a place in the Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub. Awake Labs is one of only six companies to be accepted into the year-long program, which is run by the Sauder School of Business and provides accepted start-ups with mentorship, paid student interns and business coaching.
Palmer’s device–called “Reveal”–is an ankle bracelet that monitors perspiration, heart rate and skin temperature, and transmits data to a smartphone app in real time. Based on this data, the app can warn parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when an emotional meltdown is developing so that they can intervene with a calm-down routine.
Many people with ASD are prone to major anxiety attacks and may be u ...
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