Lisa Doran (BSc '92) has released the anthology, Bearing Witness: Childbirth Stories Told by Doulas, along with co-author Lisa Caron.
Jaime Crowley (BA '08, Geography) is part of the Smober Up project which features webisodes documenting participants' struggles as they quit smoking.
Data I/O Corporation announces the appointment of Dr. Qinghua (Ching) Ma (PhD '05, Elec. & Computer Engineering) as General Manager of Data I/O's China operations.
Nicole McPhail (BA '09, Speech Communications) took an unorthodox approach to finding a job by standing at a street corner in Toronto with a cardboard sign and several dozen resumes.
Metranome, founded by David Kruis (BES '94, Geography), has partnered with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to produce an application showing everything you need to know if you’re planning to attend an upcoming play.
When Aneil Gokhale (BSc '02, Science and Business), a self-described dork, proposed marriage to Nicole Cheung-Seekit, an admitted science geek, using the letters on a Scrabble board, it was inevitable the wedding would come with a high nerd alert.
After some soul-searching, Olympian Heather Moyse (BSc '00, Kinesiology) will be back on the pitch for Canada in the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup.
Catherine D. Rawn (BA '03), an instructor in the Psychology Department at UBC, has developed a new course that teaches students how to excel at university and as lifelong learners.
Elizabeth Batten-Carew (BMath '82), who writes erotic literature as Opal Carew, was recently featured in the Toronto Sun.
Polar Mobile, founded by Kunal Gupta (BASc '08) announced a new partnership with GetJar , the world's second-largest app store (after Apple's App Store).