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2023 Departmental Announcements

MSc and PhD GRADUATES (Alumni webpage)

FALL 2023      
Francesca Ciocca Katie Clayworth Danja Currie-Olsen Kaleigh Davis
Sandra Emry Versara Goberdhan Charlotte Nelson Orna Phelan
Alieu Senghore Setareh Shariati Brittney Smaila  
       
SPRING 2023      
Fiona Beaty Matthew Christensen Coreen Forbes Anne Kim
Elizabeth Natola Le Tam Nhan Nguyen Gaurav Singh-Varma Sasha Tuttle

RETIREMENTS


 
IN MEMORIAM

July 13, 2023 - Geoff Scudder

July 5, 2023 - Don McPhail
 

NEW TT FACULTY MEMBER

May 10, 2023 - Kayla King

Jan 1, 2023 - Kevin Wei

 
PRESS and PRESS RELEASES

November 27, 2023 - Ben Matthews at The Big Story podcast

November 22, 2023 - The bigger you are, the better you fare when climate change causes cyclones

November 22, 2023 - Watch: Emily Black & Katie Marshall discuss their crowd source research on how new species form accross space and time

October 30, 2023 - Real-life horror from nature

October 26, 2023 - The 50th Anniversary Issue of Fish Physiology

October 18, 2023 - The evolution of an undergraduate biology course

October 11, 2023 - Judith Myers at The Weather Network

August 14, 2023 - Just how smart are ‘trash pandas’?

July 24, 2023 - NEON Spotlight: "Women in Ecology – Katie Marshall"

July 6, 2023 - Ben Matthews on Mosquito season

April 20, 2023 - "First person" in the Globe and Mail by Michelle Tseng

March 29, 2023 - Earth prefers to serve life in XXS and XXL sizes: UBC research

March 6, 2023 - Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict
 

AWARDS

November 16, 2023 - Kayla King named Canada Excellence Research Chair

November 7, 2023 - Ellen Nikelski wins Best Student Paper 2023 prize!

October 31, 2023 - Ryo Yamaguchi wins the Award Lecture!

July 31, 2023 - Trish Schulte: recipient of GIRAFF funds

July 18, 2023 - Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize: Terrance Snutch

July 17, 2023 - Kayla King wins the 2023 SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award

July 10, 2023 - Evan McKenzie and Charlotte Nelson: 2023 SEB-Young Scientist Award Session

June 2, 2023 - Celeste Leander receives a 2023 West Coast Teaching Excellence Award

May 25, 2023 - Sally Otto recipient of the 2023 SSE Lifetime Achievement Award

May 30, 2023 - Angelina Dichiera wins the CSZ Presidents' Award!

May 16, 2023 - Sasha McDowell receives a 2022 CAN- CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards!

March 29, 2023 - Tessa Blanchard receives 2022/2023 UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

March 21, 2023 - Laura Parfrey and Phil Matthews receive UBCs’ 2022 research awards

March 15, 2023 - Sally Otto wins the 2023 Killam Prize in Natural Sciences

March 10, 2023 - Living Data Project wins a Canadian Open Data Awards

March 1, 2023 - Mike Gordon receives a Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Awards

January 28, 2023 - Dolph Schluter wins the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences

 
INDUCTIONS

November 27, 2023 - Diane Srivastava elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada

October 16, 2023 - Mary O’Connor named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar

January 12, 2023 - Mary O'Connor: new appointed director of UBC-BRC

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