Minister's Photo Gallery - 2005 Archive

Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, right, at the event announcing the B.C. Leadership Chair in Depression Research at the University of British Columbia. Provincial government funding, through the Leading Edge Endowment Fund has contributed to the creation of this endowed chair that will research new and innovative treatments for depression. With the minister, from left: Jack Blaney and Hassan Khosrowshahi, LEEF directors; Martha Salcudean, LEEF board chair; and the recipient of the chair, Dr. Allan Young. Depression is one of the most common and debilitating illnesses in Canada.

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Premier Gordon Campbell speaking at the event announcing that Dr. Allan Young has been awarded the B.C. Leadership Chair in Depression Research at UBC Vancouver. Depression is a profoundly painful, distressing disorder that can rarely be overcome without external help. It affects more than one million Canadians a year.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, speaking at the announcement of Dr. Allan Young’s appointment to the B.C. Leadership Chair in Depression Research, as Premier Gordon Campbell looks on.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (left) meets with Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research scholar Dr. Nancy Forde at the 2005 awards ceremony held in Vancouver. The foundation and financial awards were named for Dr. Michael Smith, a renowned teacher and mentor who was awarded B.C.’s only Nobel Prize for his research to genetics. Forde’s award will allow her to continue her studies of the chemical and structural properties of collagen at Simon Fraser University.

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Minister Coell and foundation board chair Dr. Simon Sutcliffe (centre) congratulate 2005 scholar Dr. Carlo Marra (right) who studies cost effectiveness and patient outcomes in the health system. The Province has committed $100 million by 2008 to extend the foundation’s mandate and ensure B.C.’s researchers and scientists can undertake vital health research.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell speaks at the construction celebration of a new interdisciplinary research facility at Simon Fraser University (in background, Stephen Owen, federal Minister of Economic Diversification and Minister of State-Sport, centre; and SFU president Michael Stevenson). The Technology and Science Complex Module 2, or TASC2, will house 4-D Labs, a new research centre for new materials and nanoscale devices; MITACS (Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems); and specialized labs and offices for the faculties of applied sciences, arts and social sciences, science and health sciences.

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Minister Coell discusses the interactive nanoscale lab model with students Corbin Giesbrecht (left) and Xin Zhang (right) at the construction celebration of a new interdisciplinary research facility at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain campus.

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Cranes in the background mark the site of a new interdisciplinary research facility at Simon Fraser University. Attending a celebration of progress on the building, from left: Bill Krane, VP academic, SFU; John Nuraney, MLA, Burnaby-Willingdon; Michael Stevenson, president, SFU; Kevin Falcon, MLA, Surrey-Cloverdale; Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education; Stephen Owen, Minister of Economic Diversification and Minister of State-Sport; Ross Hill, executive director, 4D Labs; Mario Pinto, VP research, SFU; Simon Trudel, graduate student at 4D Labs.

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Guests at the celebration of the progress to date on SFU’s new Technology and Science Complex Module 2 stand behind a model of the complex. From left: Gary Leach, associate professor, director, photonic systems, 4D Labs; Michael Stevenson, president; Stephen Owen, Minister of Economic Diversification and Minister of State-Sport; Ross Hill, executive director, 4D Labs; Mario Pinto, VP research; Simon Trudel, graduate student at 4D Labs; Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education; and John Nuraney, MLA, Burnaby-Willingdon.

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Minister Murray Coell, in his capacity as minister responsible for research and technology, meets with delegates from the China Association for Science and Technology, known as CAST. The delegation was in Victoria to discuss post-secondary education in B.C. and to explore opportunities for international co-operation in education. CAST is a non-profit, non-governmental organization of Chinese scientific and technological workers and serves as a driving force in developing China’s science and technology activities.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell addresses a full house gathered to celebrate the opening of University Canada West in Victoria. The private university, with degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, is recognized through the British Columbia government's Degree Quality Assessment Board.

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Minister Coell, left, congratulates David Strong, president of University Canada West, B.C.’s newest private university. Strong was formerly president of the University of Victoria, one of three publicly funded universities in the city.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, third from right, cuts the ribbon to open Island Tech 2005, Vancouver Island’s showcase of technology and innovation. With the minister at the Victoria Conference Centre, from left: Colin How, president and CEO, How2Share Technologies; Leonard Brody, GrowthWorks; Dale Gann, Vancouver Island Technology Park vice-president; Eric Jordan; chair, VIATeC board of directors, Minister of Community Services Ida Chong; Richard Glickman, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Aspreva Pharmaceuticals; Dan Gunn, executive director, VIATeC; and Steve Wellburn, senior manager – tax, KPMG LLP (Victoria).

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell speaking at the B.C. Technology Industries Association’s Tech Forum luncheon at Vancouver’s Four Seasons Hotel. The BC TIA is a not-for-profit, member-funded organization that represents the technology industry of British Columbia.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell with the newly appointed council of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. The ministry is responsible for the legislation governing engineers and geoscientists in this province. To the left of the minister is APEGBC’s immediate past president, Dennis McJunkin, and to the minister’s right is the new president, Bob Ito. Other members of the executive are vice-president Tim Smith, to the right of Ito, and executive director Anne Garrett.

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Minister Coell discusses the importance of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. to the provincial economy, as well as to the safety and well being of its residents. The Ministry of Avanced Education is currently working to update the Engineers and Geoscientists Act that governs practicing engineers and geoscientists in B.C.

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Minister Coell listens to new president Bob Ito address the annual general meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists in Vancouver.

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Dr. Martin Gleave, left, and Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell at the event announcing that Gleave has been awarded the BC Leadership Chair in Prostate Cancer Research. Provincial government funding, through the Leading Edge Endowment Fund, has contributed to the creation of Canada's largest and most comprehensive prostate cancer research facility.

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Speakers at the announcement of Dr. Martin Gleave's appointment to the BC Leadership Chair in Prostate Cancer Research. From left: Larry Goldenberg, Director, The Prostate Centre at VGH; Ted Ticknor, President & CEO, Mr. Lube Canada and prostate cancer patient; Ida Goodreau, President & CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health; UBC president Martha Piper; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell; Martha Salcudean, chair of the Leading Edge Endowment Fund; and Gleave. Government funding through the Leading Edge Endowment Fund will allow the research team at the prostate centre to use very specific methods to administer cancer-killing therapies to targeted cells.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, centre, chats with Marigold Vodden of England and University of Victoria president David Turpin at the announcement of a $3.6-million donation to UVic. Vodden is a cousin of Phyllis Summerhayes of Victoria, who left the money to UVic in her will; Vodden represented the Summerhayes family at the event. The funding will establish the Maurice William Summerhayes Memorial Fund, which will provide bursaries and scholarships in perpetuity to engineering students in memory of Phyllis Summerhayes' father, the late Maurice William Summerhayes, one of Canada's leading mining engineers during the first half of the 20th century. The donation will provide financial aid and awards to about 50 engineering students every year.

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