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
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
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
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
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
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
Jacquie Armstrong (BSc 1999) is Director of technology and guest experience for The Walt Disney Company’s Kelowna Studio. She discusses what athletics taught her about business, and shares advice for women who want to own the house in computer science.So you are a retired competitive curler.My… read more
After losing her mother and grandmother to cancer, Priscilla Brastianos (BSc ’02) is using the latest genomics-driven techniques to better understand the molecular underpinnings of the disease. She leads the Central Nervous System Metastasis Program at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center… read more
Cartoonist Armin Mortazavi lives at the intersection of storytelling and education. His bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology from UBC (BSc ‘14) and master’s from the Centre for Digital Media enable him to combine his love for science and the arts.Were you always interested in cartooning… read more
Emily Chung (PhD’ 04) has been a science and technology journalist with CBC for 12 years. Before that, she wrote a chemistry column for YES Mag, a science magazine for kids, among many other writing gigs. We talked to her about the state of science and tech reporting.We’ve seen a trend in the past… read more
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