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2024 Departmental Announcements

MSc and PhD GRADUATES (Alumni webpage)

FALL 2024   Pablo Sandoval Acuña
Melissa Armstrong Christina Hsu Benjamin Staples
Vincent Billy Rachael MacKinnon MD Abu Sagor Taher
Jarrett Blair Pierre Rogy Jolan Theriault
Fanny Couture Melody Salehzadeh Moghadami Janet Zhao
SPRING 2024    
Tahnee Ames Kenneth Askelson Tessa Blanchard
Elsa Cyr Madison Earhart Sophia Fan
Chelsey Gough Rebecca Hansen Ardalan Hendi
Nathan Holmes Daniel Laronde Shuang Liu
Ivan Lo Mackenzie Kinney Rory Macklin
Aidan McMaster Mohammadjavad Meghrazi Sravya Paluri
Hyo Joon (David) Park Sophie Roth Taryn Scarff


RETIREMENTS

March 31, 2024 - Bruce Gillespie


IN MEMORIAM

May 24, 2024 - Vincent Grant

April 8, 2024 - David J. Randall
 

NEW FACULTY MEMBER

Aug 1, 2024 - Welcome new faculty member - Heather Bruce!

July 15, 2024 - Tessa Blanchard

July 1, 2024 - Stella Lee

June 1, 2024 - Lizelle Odendaal


PRESS and PRESS RELEASES

Dec 5, 2024 - Can plastic-eating bugs help with our microplastic problem?

Dec 3, 2024 - Climate change could bring more severe bacterial infections, including in corals

Nov 15, 2024 - How to bridge the natural sciences research-to-action gap

Oct 18, 2024 - Watch: Jinfang Li and Michael Gordon discuss "How fruit flies are helping us understand human brains"

Sep 14, 2024 - Madison Earhart at Quirks & Quarks - Science in the Field special

July 25, 2024 - New review: Gill et al. JEB & ECR Spotlight - Jessica Kennedy and Lauren Gill

July 26, 2024 - Raccoons could be smarter than we thought!

June 25, 2024 - The mystery of the missing butterflies in Vancouver

May 29, 2024 - New research mapping a hummingbirds’ sense of touch

March 27, 2024 - Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca)

February 29, 2024 - What evidence will help the Amazon?

January 11, 2024 - Need for speed: how hummingbirds switch mental gears in flight


AWARDS

Dec 10, 2024 - Gigi Lau and Doug Altshuler receive 2024 Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Awards

Dec 3, 2024 - Michelle Tseng awarded Wall Fellowship

Dec 3, 2024 - Laura Parfrey's team awarded Wall Research Team Faculty Award

Nov 6, 2024 - Kayla King awarded Arthur B McDonald fellowship

Oct 25, 2024 - Emily Black and Aaron Skinner recipients of 2024 UBC Killam Doctoral Scholarships

Sep 23, 2024 - Jacelyn Shu & Sylvia Heredia recipients of President's Staff Awards!

Sep 18, 2024 - Kevin Wei: 2024 Michael Smith Health Research Scholar award recipient

Sep 6, 2024 - Kayla King named RSC new Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

June 26, 2024 - Natasha Klasios wins the Raja Rosenbluth Award for Women in Biological Sciences

June 12, 2024 - Yangfan Zhang receives a Banting PDF

May 16, 2024 - 2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock

May 10, 2024 - Katie Marshall wins the 2024 Robert G. Boutilier New Investigator Award

May 7, 2024 - 2024 awards recipients at ZGSA-DJWS Spring Symposium & 100 year celebration

April 30, 2024 - Kaitlyn Gaynor elected ESA Early Career Fellow

March 19, 2024 - Katie Marshall wins a 2023 UBC Killam Research Fellowship

February 20, 2024 - Kaitlyn Gaynor winner of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 6, 2024  - Brett Couch receives the 2023 Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Awards
 

INDUCTIONS

Sep 6, 2024 - Kayla King named RSC new Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

June 6, 2024 - Colin Brauner receives an Honorary Doctorate from Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

May 17, 2024 - Sally Otto named Fellow of The Royal Society UK

April 18, 2024 - Dolph Schluter named AAAS Fellow

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