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		<title>UBC’s first female engineering prof – a Renaissance woman</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/08/30/ubc%e2%80%99s-first-female-engineering-prof-%e2%80%93-a-renaissance-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Markham
“Engineering and technology affects every aspect of our life. As engineers we want to affect society and make the world better. For that we need women, men, First Nations people… we build systems for people, and this is why we want all people in society to participate, not only men.” 

Rabab Ward, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dating and intimacy in the digital era</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/06/10/dating-and-intimacy-in-the-digital-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lorraine Chan
Reprinted with permission from
UBC Reports &#124; Vol. 57 &#124; No. 6 &#124; Jun. 2, 2011
Are women’s dreams of finding their own Prince William or Mr. Darcy making them susceptible to Internet Lotharios?
For her doctoral thesis, School of Nursing PhD candidate Cindy Masaro  is investigating how social forces within a digital era are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EECE graduate describes her UBC Engineering experience and future aspirations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/06/01/eece-graduate-describes-her-ubc-engineering-experience-and-future-aspirations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my final year, I  was fortunate enough to be the campus  ambassador for the Teach for India  program, which was in its nascent  stages at UBC and GVRD. Using campus  resources, organizations, and  Greater Vancouver Regional District community  forums, I was able to  create awareness in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former EUS president reflects upon her experiences at UBC Engineering</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/05/05/former-eus-president-reflects-upon-her-experiences-at-ubc-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineering  has definitely helped improve my problem solving  skills, and more than  anything, has taught me how to learn quickly and  effectively while juggling a  million and one involvements. It has also  taught me how to look at problems as  challenges that can always be  overcome—or at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small-scale mining: A golden opportunity for equality</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/04/27/small-scale-mining-a-golden-opportunity-for-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On  Friday Jennifer Hinton defended her PhD dissertation Gender Differentiated Impacts and Benefits of Artisanal Mining:  Engendering Pathways out of Poverty.  On Monday she flew back to Uganda, a  landlocked country bounded by  Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Sudan and the Democratic  Republic of Congo in  East Africa.
The  sweet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC graduate student receives prestigious woman in engineering scholarship</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/04/18/ubc-graduate-student-receives-prestigious-woman-in-engineering-scholarship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—April 18, 2011—Civil Engineering graduate student Emilie Lapointe is the 2011 Vale Master’s in Engineering Scholarship winner. Awarded by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF), this prestigious $10,000 scholarship is awarded annually to the most promising woman in a graduate engineering program at the master’s level in Canada. 

Recognized as an outstanding and dedicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC undergrad recognized as exceptional woman in engineering</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/04/15/ubc-undergrad-recognized-as-exceptional-woman-in-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelowna, Canada—April 15, 2011—Third-year engineering student Audrey Siebert-Timmer is one of five women across Canada who will receive a $5,000 scholarship from the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF). 
Siebert-Timmer will travel to Halifax in May to receive her $5,000 and meet the other award winners. She will also serve as an ambassador of CEMF and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lone Flower: Rona Alexandra Hatt Wallis (BaSc ’22), 1901–1982</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2011/01/25/the-lone-flower-rona-alexandra-hatt-wallis-basc-%e2%80%9922-1901%e2%80%931982/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1922, Rona Hatt graduated from UBC with a degree in chemical engineering and became the first woman to graduate from the Faculty of Applied Science. 

The youngest of 12 siblings, she was the only one to attend university. When she began her studies in 1917 at age 15, UBC’s enrollment was just over 350 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC professor named NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/08/24/ubc-professor-named-nserc-chair-for-women-in-science-and-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/08/24/ubc-professor-named-nserc-chair-for-women-in-science-and-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—August 24, 2010—University of British Columbia Mechanical Engineering Professor Elizabeth Croft has been named the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for the British Columbia and Yukon Region.

The primary focus of the Chair is to increase the participation of women in science and engineering and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC Engineering alumni and student recognized for outstanding contributions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/05/28/ubc-engineering-alumni-and-student-recognized-for-outstanding-contributions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/05/28/ubc-engineering-alumni-and-student-recognized-for-outstanding-contributions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—May 28, 2010—UBC Engineering alumni and students were recognized for their contributions at the inaugural Engineering Excellence Celebration dinner held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver. The event, hosted by Dean Tyseer Aboulnasr, brought together more than 200 alumni, students, faculty, staff and guests of UBC Engineering. By holding the annual celebration , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An entrepreneur in the truest sense—Winnie Lai</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/05/13/an-entrepreneur-in-the-truest-sense%e2%80%94winnie-lai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ErinRose Handy
Entrepreneur: n. A person who has a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the risks and responsibility for the outcome.

Winnie Lai is an entrepreneur in the truest sense of the word.
Graduating this spring with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics with a Minor in Commerce, she is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering a first in the Okanagan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/05/06/engineering-a-first-in-the-okanagan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/05/06/engineering-a-first-in-the-okanagan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 23:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>APSC Communications</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jody Jacob
Reprinted with permission from
UBC Reports &#124; Vol. 56 &#124; No. 5 &#124; May. 6, 2010
When Erin Johnston steps across the stage this June to accept her degree in electrical engineering, she will be part of the first graduating cohort of the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna.
“It’s been a really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC Engineering students win Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation 2010 scholarships</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/04/20/ubc-engineering-students-win-canadian-engineering-memorial-foundation-2010-scholarships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—April 20, 2010—UBC Engineering students Lindsey Curtis, Elizabeth Hughes and Hengameh Hoseini have been announced as 2010 scholarship recipients by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation.
Curtis and Hughes will receive two of this year’s three Vale Inco $10,000 Undergraduate scholarships. Hoseini has been named one of the nation’s top-five undergraduate engineering students and will receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating engineering with international development to make the world a better place</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/03/08/integrating-engineering-with-international-development-to-make-the-world-a-better-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>APSC Communications</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During her first year at university, Annelies Tjebbes joined Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an international development organization working towards the alleviation of extreme poverty in Africa. Now in her third-year studying biomedical electrical engineering, Annelies is deeply involved in EWB, which she says has shaped the person she is today. In addition to serving on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering a competitive edge.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2010/01/12/engineering-a-competitive-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In international competition, the difference between a gold medal and missing the podium is often measured in split seconds. A team of UBC engineers is developing solutions to trim milliseconds from finishing times with the goal of providing a competitive edge for Canadian athletes.]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for the unexpected.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/12/10/preparing-for-the-unexpected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine it’s the final minute of the gold-medal match, and Team Canada scores a goal. GM Place starts to shake. You think it’s the excitement of the packed arena and the reverberations of the applause – but it keeps shaking – you realize it’s an earthquake.]]></description>
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		<title>Building a machine inside a single living cell. From here.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/11/10/building-a-machine-inside-a-single-living-cell-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you hear about the UBC students who won gold at MIT? It was the team’s first showing at the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition where they presented the E.coli Traffic Light, a biosensor signaling mechanism operating in <em>E.coli</em>—a machine built inside a single living cell.]]></description>
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		<title>Sustaining the next 100 years.  From here.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/10/20/sustaining-the-next-100-years-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news!  North Van just won the Community Excellence Award based on a plan developed by the UBC Design Centre for Sustainability. 
What&#8217;s your community&#8217;s plan for being sustainable for the next century?  Need ideas?
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		<title>Mining with viruses.  From here.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/10/20/mining-with-viruses-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With flu season upon us, thoughts drift to vaccines, but check out this beneficial use of a virus.  
Who would ever think of using a virus to extract metals?  Read more about this research. 
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		<title>Exploring a career in engineering.  From here.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/10/20/exploring-a-career-in-engineering-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking of changing the world? Start here – UBC Engineering Open House, November 7. From the everyday to the extraordinary, see how engineers are improving our world.]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanical engineer receives honorary degree from the University of Waterloo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/09/11/mechanical-engineer-receives-honorary-degree-from-the-university-of-waterloo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—September 11, 2009—UBC Mechanical Engineering Professor Emerita Martha Salcudean received a doctor of engineering degree and addressed convocation at the University of Waterloo on June 13, 2009. 

Salcudean is the Weyerhaeuser Industrial Research Chair Emerita in Computational Fluid Dynamics. A member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, fellow of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ph.D. graduate making a difference with Engineers Without Borders</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/05/15/ph-d-graduate-making-a-difference-with-engineers-without-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Anna-Marie Silvester, Ph.D. &#8216;09
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineers Without Borders
Q&#38;A with a recent grad in Africa&#8230;
What has made your time at UBC the most memorable?
People made my time at UBC memorable. Discussions with my fellow graduate students were challenging, educational, funny, and thought provoking. Working with my very patient supervisors was a incredible and warm learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering graduate describes her most memorable moments at UBC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 23:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parisa Bastani, B.A.Sc. &#8216;09
Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Option
Formula SAE Captain, Engineering Student Team Council President
What has made Parisa Bastani&#8217;s time at UBC the most memorable? Without hesitation, she replies, “Lots of all nighters.” And she’s not referring to parties.

Averaging four hours of sleep per night, Parisa has spent her five years at UBC “super multi-tasking” as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kerry Black named Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation 2009 AMEC Masters Scholarship Winner</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/05/11/kerry-black-named-canadian-engineering-memorial-foundation-2009-amec-masters-scholarship-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—May 11, 2009—Kerry Black has been selected to receive Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF)’s 2009 AMEC Masters Scholarship in Engineering. Along with the $10,000 award, the scholarship includes the opportunity for a summer job at an AMEC office in Canada.

Ms. Black is currently enrolled in the Masters of Applied Science program in the Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lin Watt named Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation 2009 Undergraduate Scholarship Winner</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/05/11/lin-watt-named-canadian-engineering-memorial-foundation-2009-undergraduate-scholarship-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—May 11, 2009—Third-year Chemical Engineering student Lin Watt has been named the recipient of the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) scholarship for the British Columbia region. She is one of five top undergraduate women engineering students across Canada acknowledged by CEMF and will receive a $5,000 CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship in recognition of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering profs among UBC’s research stars</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2009/01/29/engineering-profs-among-ubc%e2%80%99s-research-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—January 29, 2009—UBC has announced its annual research award winners, including three UBC engineering professors. 
UBC has also awarded ten UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowships to assist promising faculty members—exhibiting a special distinction of intellect—who wish to devote full time to research and study in their field during a recognized study leave. Applied Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical engineer promotes environmental and economic benefits of biodiesel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2008/06/11/chemical-engineer-promotes-environmental-and-economic-benefits-of-biodiesel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Waste to Worth
Reprinted with permission from
Frontier magazine&#124; Issue 4 &#124; June 2008

As the irreversible decline of oil availability looms in the not-so distant future, Naoko Ellis is using a grassroots UBC research project to promote the widespread environmental and economic benefits of biodiesel.
It has the power to transform formerly nomadic cultures into major power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBC engineer a woman of distinction</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2008/05/27/ubc-engineer-a-woman-of-distinction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 20:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada—May 27, 2008—UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Rabab Ward is this year’s recipient of the YWCA Vancouver Women of Distinction Award in the category of Technology, Science &#38; Industry for her dedication to the advancement of technological, scientific and industrial discovery and application, and her efforts to forge new roles for women and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former EUS president sharing secrets of a notorious red car</title>
		<link>http://blogs.apsc.ubc.ca/makingadifference/2008/05/01/former-eus-president-sharing-secrets-of-a-notorious-red-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineering Spotlight
graduate Bowinn Ma
Secrets of a Notorious Red Car
By Brian Lin
Reprinted with permission from
UBC Reports &#124; Vol. 54 &#124; No. 5 &#124; May 1, 2008

“The one thing I learned at UBC is that change is possible. A lot of students feel that change isn’t possible so why bother getting involved? Knowing that change is possible, [...]]]></description>
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