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UBC SCIENCE CONNECT
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News and Events for
UBC Science Alumni | Issue 3, 2018
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UBC researchers can’t wait to dig into Mars
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Planetary scientist Catherine Johnson and her team are part of NASA’s InSite mission, and can’t wait for the lander to reach the Red Planet.
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Texas A&M Dean to lead UBC Science
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U.S. physicist Meigan Aronson will take on the leadership of the UBC Faculty of Science this fall. Currently Dean of the Texas A&M College of Science, Aronson will succeed Simon M Peacock, who has overseen tremendous growth and transformation across the Faculty over two terms as Dean.
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Mexican spiders get ready for their close-up
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Last year, UBC zoologist Wayne Maddison travelled to the highlands of southern Mexico in search of undiscovered species of jumping spiders. In his online journal, he takes a close look at these resplendently beautiful arachnids.
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BC’s free anti-overdose kits save hundreds of lives
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A BC program that hands out overdose-reversing drug kits significantly reduced the number of fentanyl-related deaths in 2016, according to UBC mathematicians and the BC Centre for Disease Control.
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UBC alumna’s quest to entertain non-gamers
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Brie Code (BSc 01) is a programmer and the CEO of TRU LUV, a studio making video games for people who find games boring. She explains how a conversation with her game-averse cousin steered her towards a different kind of digital experience.
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Kudos
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UBC and BCIT have launched Western Canada's first degree in forensic sciences.
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Biologist Judith Mank joins UBC Science as a Canada 150 Research Chair in evolutionary genomics.
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Biologist Vanessa Auld (BSc 83) is the new Head of the Department of Zoology at UBC.
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Microbiologist Brett Finlay has been inducted to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
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Astrophysicist Mark Halpern has received the 2018 Carlyle S. Beals Award from the Canadian Astronomical Society.
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Ben Williams has won the 2017 UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award.
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UBC alumnus Robert Langlands (DSc 85) has won the 2018 Abel Prize for his Grand Unified Theory of Maths.
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Old school lectures still prevail in science classes, but not at UBC
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An analysis of more than 2,000 classes at colleges and universities across North America found that 55 per cent of science classes continue to be dominated by lecture-based teaching. However, at UBC, only 15 per cent of science classes are dominated by lectures.
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