|
|
UBC SCIENCE CONNECT
|
|
News and Events for
UBC Science Alumni | Issue 5, 2018
|
|
|
|
Building bridges with math
|
|
UBC professor Malabika Pramanik has launched a novel mathematics mentoring program to connect women, Indigenous youth and recent immigrants.
|
|
|
|
Magic? Or Physics?
|
|
We won’t be pulling rabbits out of hats, but we will surprise you during our family-friendly Faraday Show. It’s science and spectacle all in one. December 9.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Join our Instagram contest
|
|
To celebrate our new Instagram channel we’re running a giveaway. It’s easy to enter and you could win one of three $50 gift cards.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
How planets play ping pong
|
|
UBC astrophysicist Christa Van Laerhoven (BSc’ 07) on what the Kuiper Belt tells us about the formation of the Solar System, why Neptune plays ping pong with other planets, and what sci fi writers get wrong.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We’re quickly devouring Mediterranean sharks
|
|
The shortfin mako is the fastest shark in the ocean. It’s also overfished and critically endangered. UBC zoologist Madeline Cashion (MSc’ 18) is gathering better data on shark catches to help save them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UBC Science alumna talks science reporting
|
|
CBC journalist Emily Chung (PhD’ 04) is upbeat about science communication. “Although science coverage in traditional media is shrinking, there are a lot of popular Internet publications that are interested in science.”
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kudos
|
-
A diverse group of CRCs announced by the Federal Government includes new chairs in oceans research, machine learning and quantum materials at UBC Science.
-
Physicist Andrea Damascelli and computer scientist Uri Ascher are among UBC’s newly named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.
-
UBC physicist Ingrid Stairs has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
-
UBC alumnae Charlotte Froese Fischer (BA’ 52 MA’ 54) and Jennifer Gardy (BSc’ 00) have been honoured in the Women of Impact in Canada gallery for their contributions to STEM.
-
Zoologist Andrew Trites (MSc’ 85, PhD’ 91) has been awarded the UBC Faculty of Science Alumni Builder Award for 2018.
|
|
|
|
|
Astrophysics takes centre stage
|
|
UBC astrophysicist Gary Hinshaw, who is creating the largest map of the universe ever attempted, is featured in UBC’s latest national advertising campaign.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A new way to measure Earth’s magnetic field
|
|
Researchers are using a ground-based laser to excite sodium atoms floating 100 kilometres above the planet and monitoring the light they emit in response.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You’re receiving this e-mail because, as a UBC Science alumni or supporter,
you’ve given the university permission to contact you. We take your privacy seriously,
and have made it easy for you to unsubscribe.
|
|
|
UBC Faculty of Science, Office of the Dean, Earth Sciences Building
2178-2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
|
|
|
