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March 20, 2023
UBC's Dr. Sally Otto, University Killam Professor and professor of zoology in the Faculty of Science, has received a 2023 NRC Killam Prize in Natural Sciences.
The National Killam Program announced today the 2023 Killam Prize and Dorothy Killam Fellowship winners, recognizing the...
March 17, 2023
UBC Science researchers earned nine of UBCs’ 2022 research awards, including two of the University’s premier honours.
Cosmologist Dr. Mark Halpern earned UBC’s Jacob Biely Prize, the University’s premier research award. Dr. Halpern’s work focuses on measurements of the cosmic microwave background—...
March 16, 2023
As spring nears, Vancouverites look forward to the annual display of cherry blossoms that blanket streets and parks throughout the city. We spoke with Douglas Justice (he/him), associate director of horticulture and collections at the UBC Botanical Garden, about how the recent cold snap may affect...
March 3, 2023
As the United Nations marks World Wildlife Day on March 3, UBC zoology professor Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor (she/her) discusses how climate change is affecting wildlife, and why that can spell bad news for humans and animals alike.
Dr. Gaynor recently co-authored a paper in Nature Climate Change, with...
February 22, 2023
Two University of British Columbia ocean fisheries experts—marine biologist Dr. Daniel Pauly and fisheries economist Dr. Rashid Sumaila—have been awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
The $250,000 (U.S.) award, administered by the University of Southern California, is often...
February 16, 2023
The discovery of stone tools and cut-marked animal bones at a 2.9-million-year-old site in Kenya has reopened the debate over who made the first stone tools—and when.
The research, published in Science by an international team of researchers including UBC isotopic paleoecologists, presents what are...
February 15, 2023
UBC researcher Dr. Alannah Hallas—an expert on developing new quantum materials through high-pressure synthesis—has been named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow. The two-year, $75,000 (US) fellowships are awarded to rising stars in fundamental research who have the “potential to revolutionize”...
February 14, 2023
A new grassroots effort—announced this month in Trends in Ecology and Evolution—is calling for a reevaluation of some terminology used in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) to make it more inclusive and precise.
The initiative, the EEB Language Project was launched by like-minded scientists...
February 1, 2023
Dr. Rashid Sumaila, a leading interdisciplinary fisheries economist, has been elected to the latest class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows. The fellowship, granted by the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals...
January 27, 2023
UBC evolutionary biologist Dr. Dolph Schluter has been awarded the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) and the Crafoord Foundation for his research into the role of natural selection in adaptive radiation and the origin of species.
The Crafoord Prize, which...
