Dr. Vered Shwartz points to a 2019 headline that spread the news: “Stevie Wonder announces he’ll be having kidney surgery during London concert”.“One of the properties of languages is that we only say what we believe to be complimentary to the listener’s knowledge,” says Dr. Shwartz. “I… read more
“One of the reasons why I really wanted to come to UBC was the culture that recognizes the importance of understanding how people learn and become professionals within a discipline,” says Dr. Laura Lukes, a new assistant professor with UBC EOAS. “If we understand how people make choices about… read more
January 1, 2023 marked Dr. Kevin Wei’s first day as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at UBC. In this edited conversation Dr. Wei discusses his research as an evolutionary geneticist, beginning with the year he spent in Taiwan after getting his Bachelor of Science degree,… read more
"Coming from a background where I was initially self-taught, I feel really close to the experience of students transitioning to data science from other disciplines and the challenges that these students face,” says Dr. Joel Östblom on his new role teaching data science at UBC.Originally a… read more
When Dr. Shandin Pete joined the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) in 2021, it presented an opportunity to bring Indigenous perspectives to UBC Science.Dr. Pete, who is Salish and Diné, completed a PhD in geoscience at the University of Montana, prior to obtaining a… read more
Even when Dr. Miranda Holmes-Cerfon was an undergraduate honours student at UBC, she knew she wanted to use mathematics to tackle problems typically studied in other disciplines.“People in other disciplines talk a different language,” Dr. Holmes-Cerfon says. “They might be talking about the… read more
Science—especially the life sciences—is generating more and more data each year, and sophisticated statistical methods are required to help make sense of it. With so much data available, there's been a shift that flies in the face of the traditional scientific method where a researcher picks a… read more
When Dr. Jiarui Ding joined UBC Computer Science in January 2022 as an assistant professor, it was a return to familiar ground—Dr. Ding had already completed his PhD studies as an early computational pioneer in single cell genomics at UBC.“I hope to make discoveries that can be passed on to future… read more
When Dr. Caroline Lemieux encountered computer science for the first time in her first year of undergraduate studies at UBC, she didn't realize that it would shape the course of her career."I liked math and thought it would be neat to take a computer class," says Dr. Lemieux, who returns to… read more
When you talk to mathematician Dr. Lindsey Daniels, there’s no doubt you’re talking to one of UBC Science’s new professors of teaching. She radiates excitement for her subject, combined with an affable and down-to-earth approach—which will be an advantage for the incoming Science One and… read more
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