UBC Faculty Among Order of Canada Appointees
Appointees include Drs. Pieter Cullis, Connie Eaves, Donald McKenzie, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Walter Hardy, Curtis Suttle and Peter Zandstra.
Prizes, Awards or Honours Recipient
Dr. Rashid Sumaila Receives the SSHRC Impact Partnership Award
Date
Monday, November 29, 2021 - 16:00Dr. Rashid Sumaila Receives the SSHRC Impact Partnership Award
Award received on behalf of OceanCanada partnership.
Dr. Pieter Cullis awarded Prince Mahidol Award for ground-breaking work on lipid nanoparticles
Date
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 16:00Dr. Pieter Cullis awarded Prince Mahidol Award for ground-breaking work on lipid nanoparticles
Dr. Pieter Cullis is a recipient of the 2021 Prince Mahidol Award in recognition of his pioneering work on lipid nanoparticles (LNP), which has been critical to the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and other life-saving medicines.
Dr. Emily Cranston Awarded NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
Date
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 16:00Dr. Emily Cranston Awarded NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
Award is in recognition of innovative contributions to the fields of wood science, chemical and biological engineering.
Dr. Nicola Levell wins American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology’s 2021 Michael Ames Prize
Date
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 17:00Dr. Nicola Levell wins American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology’s 2021 Michael Ames Prize
Associate professor Nicola Levell has won the American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology’s 2021 Michael Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology for her project Shadows, Strings & Other Things (the physical and the digital exhibitions) and her edited volume Bodies of Enchantment: Puppets of Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas (2021).
Ten UBC Faculty Members Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
A total of ten UBC faculty members have been announced by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) as new Fellows and as new Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.