Scott M. Oser, Assistant Prof. in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Canada Research Chair in Solar Neutrinos, has been awarded a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship. The prestigious award (35 Sloan fellows have become Nobel Laureates) is intended to enhance the careers of outstanding young faculty members in the sciences.
Oser--whose primary research is in the field of neutrino oscillations--works on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which has provided revolutionary insight into the properties of neutrinos and the core of the sun. He is this year's only UBC recipient, and joins Canadian fellowship winners at McMaster, the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto and Waterloo.
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UBC physicists share in $3M Breakthrough Prize
November 9, 2015
Twenty-nine current and past UBC researchers will each take home a modest share of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics announced yesterday at NASA Ames Research Centre in Moffett Field, California. The high-profile Silicon-Valley funded award is being shared between five… read more
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UBC physicists catch neutrinos “In the act”
July 18, 2013
Today at the prestigious European Physical Society meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, a new breakthrough in our understanding of neutrinos, nature’s most elusive particle, was announced. The T2K collaboration, which consists of scientists from Canada, Japan, and nine other nations, confirmed… read more
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UBC Physicists Set to Help Unravel Elusive Neutrino 'Flavour Oscillation' Mystery
June 15, 2011
An international team of researchers that includes UBC physicists has provided the first hints that muon neutrinos are able to transform into electron neutrinos when they travel over large distances. The new results from the Japan-based Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) project indicate that muon neutrinos… read more
Musqueam First Nation land acknowledegement
UBC Science acknowledges that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.
Learn more: Musqueam First Nation
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