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2022 Departmental Announcements

MSc and PhD GRADUATES (Alumni webpage)

FALL 2022           
Emily Adamczyk Stephanie Blain Graham Brownlee
John Cristiani Mairin Deith Francisco Henao Díaz
Amelia Hesketh Cecilia Jalabert Meghan Jelen
Hyewon Jung Katrina Kaur Jessica Kennedy
Billi Krochuk Gauthier Monnet Naomi Pleizier
Ilan Rubin Samantha Straus Ron Togunov
Jasmin Wong Leo Wood Kaitlin Yehle

 

SPRING 2022    
Di (Amy) Liu Isaiah Box Rachael Penman
Rachel Chudnow Isabela Do O Shuang Yang
Beatrice Rost-Komiya Junho Eom  


RETIREMENTS

June 30, 2022 - Edythe Grant
 

IN MEMORIAM

April 20, 2022 - Timothy Parsons

November 17, 2022 - Al Lewis


NEW TT FACULTY MEMBER

July 1, 2022 - Kaitlyn Gaynor


PRESS and PRESS RELEASES

February 23, 2022 - Bringing out the best in wild birds on farms

February 9, 2022 - Why whales don’t drown when they gulp down food underwater?

January 25, 2022 - Larval insect buoyancy

February 23, 2022 - Bringing out the best in wild birds on farms

March 4, 2022 - A new model for sodium uptake in the zebrafish gill

March 7, 2022 - Ocean acidification research by Iria Giménez

April 13, 2022 - Climate Change Will Reshuffle Marine Ecosystems in Unexpected ways

April 28, 2022 - What are your mentorship practices? An interview with Killam Awardees for Excellence in Mentoring by Sasha McDowell

April 29, 2022 - The Harley lab: how the heat wave affected seashore animals

May 6, 2022 - Mary O'Connor at The Current CBC on biodiversity in Canada

May 30, 2022 - Capturing microplastics in BC - Natasha Klasios

June 2, 2022 - Canada ranks third worldwide in permeable landscapes for wildlife

June 16, 2022 - How to study for oral comprehensive or qualifying exams

June 24, 2022 - Sarah Benson-Amram's work featured in National Geographic

July 4, 2022 - Specializations in optic flow neurons of hummingbirds and zebrafinches

July 15, 2022 - Woodpeckers minimize cranial absorption of shocks

August 19, 2023 - UBC student - Melody Salehzadeh - initiative set to recycle nearly 50,000 lab gloves

August 23, 2022 - Mosquito brains encode unique features of human odour to drive host seeking

September 8, 2022 - "How Animals Survive in a Savanna Full of Predators", quotes by Kaitlyn Gaynor

September 16, 2022 - Warmer Earth could see smaller butterflies that struggle to fly, affecting food systems

September 22, 2022 - Why whales don’t get brain damage when they swim

September 23, 2022 - Animal Cognition - Sarah Benson-Amram's work featured

October 19, 2022 - Ion regulation at gills precedes gas exchange and the origin of vertebrates

October 25, 2022 - "Vertebrates May Have Used Vocal Communication More Than 100 Million Years Earlier Than We Thought", quotes by Irene Ballagh

November 30, 2022 - Discovering the key to birds' agility could improve drone design

December 5, 2022 - IBioS podcast series - Biodiversity Speaks

December 25, 2022 - "Road salt could impact salmon populations, researchers say", CBC

 
AWARDS

March  14, 2022 - Ben Matthews winner of the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship

May 9, 2022 - Trish Schulte recipient of the 2022 F.E.J. Fry Medal

May 31, 2022 - Michael Gordon and Jared Taylor receive 2021/2022 UBC Killam Teaching Prizes

June 2, 2022 - Trish Schulte: Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Responses of Fish to a Changing Environment

June 16, 2022 - Michelle Tseng: 2022 Wall Scholar

September 21, 2022 - Phil Matthews, Katie Marshall and Ben Matthews: recipients of CFI JELF-InnovationCA funds

November 8, 2022 - Madison Earhart and Keila Stark - award winners!

November 28, 2022 - Sophia Fan winner of Entomological Society Student award
 

INDUCTIONS

March 4, 2022 - Dolph Schluter receives the Order of British Columbia

October 6, 2022 - Agnes Lacombe inducted into the UBC Quarter Century Club

 

 

 

 

 

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