Alumni Profiles

  1. Headshot of Caroline Graham

    Fisheries alumna hooked on salmon research

    Salmon lead a life of mystery on the open ocean—the years between leaving their birth rivers and returning to spawn. Most of the 10 to 20 per cent of smolts that make it to the ocean will not survive, but scientists don’t know what’s killing them. "It’s kind of a black… read more

  2. Headshot of Shawna Narayan

    UBC grad student is helping underrepresented youth get into STEM

    Shawna Narayan (BSc ‘18) is the founder of Empower the Future, a non-profit that helps marginalized youth overcome post-secondary challenges. Empower the Future recently won Surrey's Civic Distinction Award. She discusses how her own experiences shaped her efforts to reach out to inner-city… read more

  3. Headshot of Dr. Emily V. Fischer

    Eye of the storm: Atmospheric chemist talks fieldwork and diversity in STEM

    Dr. Emily V. Fischer (BSc ‘02) got hooked on atmospheric science early. Now she teaches at Colorado State University.Can you tell us a bit about your research?I study non-traditional sources of air pollution, such as wildfires, oil and gas development, and agriculture. In 2018 I led a big field… read more

  4. Headshot of Dunia Tozy

    Dunia Tozy talks passion for storytelling, videography

    Leo award-nominated TV host, video journalist, filmmaker and photographer Dunia Tozy is a born story-teller. Raised in Baghdad, Iraq, she studied biology at UBC and broadcast journalism at BCIT.How did your UBC Science experience help you become the person you are?Science teaches you to keep asking… read more

  5. Headshot of Elaine Leung

    Elaine Leung on conservation outreach: You only protect what you love

    Elaine Leung (BSc ‘04) explains how a weak swimmer who gets seasick can develop a wicked love of marine biology. She’s the founder of Sea Smart, a Vancouver-based charity that delivers ocean conservation education programs to thousands of kids across Canada and beyond.How did you become interested… read more

  6. Howard Soon holding a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.

    Leaving your footsteps in the vineyard

    Vintner Howard Soon (BSc ‘74) was named to the Order of Canada in 2019 for his contributions to the wine industry. He believes that when science, art and culture come together, as they do in wine making, the real magic happens.How did you become interested in wine making?During university I worked… read more

  7. Iola holds a picture of herself and a friend skiing in 1946

    Forging ahead: Iola Musfeldt was a biology pioneer during World War II

    Pioneering wildlife biologist Iola Musfeldt (BA’45, MA’47) completed the first study on muskrats and their parasites in BC. Later on she worked to track down the source of a human trichinosis case. To do this she offered a 25-cent bounty on rat tails. She talks about the very real challenges of… read more

  8. Headshot of Jason Kalirai

    Rocket man: UBC alumnus explains his passion for astrophysics

    As head of civil space programs at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, astrophysicist Jason Kalirai (BSc '00, MSc '01, PhD '04) oversees a multitude of NASA space exploration missions. That includes DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a planetary defense mission to… read more

  9. Headshot of Madeleine Guenette

    Want to get a foot in the door in STEM outreach? Wear many hats

    As executive director of the Science Fair Foundation of British Columbia, Madeleine Guenette (BSc 2014) oversees an organization that delivers programming to 40,000 youth each year.What does the Science Fair Foundation do?The Science Fair Foundation of BC is the largest volunteer science and… read more

  10. Jeffrey Lott smiles for the camera in Cologne, Germany.

    Retired RCMP officer has bone (marrow) to pick

    Jeffrey Lott (BSc ‘73) joined the RCMP right after graduating from UBC Science, and spent almost 40 years in the force. The former Nanaimo RCMP Superintendent is now retired, but his sense of duty and service still pulls him into critical missions that can take him around the world. Lott is a stem… read more

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