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March 19, 2013
Congratulations to the 2013 undergraduate award winners!
Summer NSERC Undergraduate Science Research Award (USRA)
Mairin Deith (Baum Lab)Kayla Feragen (Chow Lab)
Erin Hornell (Reimchen Lab)
Summer Science Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA)
Marissa Davies (Lacourse Lab)
Pam Dheri (Varela Lab)
Brett Hryciw (Christie Lab)
Spencer Thomson (Chow Lab)
Dustin Allison (Christie Lab)
March 1, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Mazumder, the second Canadian to ever receive the 2013 Ruth Patrick Award: an impressive recognition in the field of limnology, not just for Dr. Mazumder, but also for the Dept of Biology, UVic, BC and Canada.
- 2013 Ruth Patrick Award presented to Asit Mazumder, NSERC-Industry Research Chair, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: The Ruth Patrick Award honors outstanding research by a scientist in the application of basic aquatic science principles to the identification, analysis and/or solution of important environmental problems. The award is given to aquatic scientists who have made either sustained contributions or a single, but critical contribution towards solving an environmental problem.
- For articles on Dr. Mazumder and the award, please see:
http://www.aslo.org/meetings/neworleans2013/awards.html
http://www.reseauwaternet.ca/page.aspx?page=453&app=77&cat1=338&tp=12&lk=no&menu=57
Pg. 22: http://wap.aslo.org/bulletin/issues/13_v22_i1.pd
December 14, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Neville Winchester (Biology SLI & Geography Adjunct professor): just published in Science (December 14) Dr. Winchester is a coauthor (see Basset et al. and see the cover) of a paper that now provides a more reliable estimates of total arthropod species richness in a tropical rainforest in Panama. Arthropods are the most diverse group of terrestrial animal species, yet estimates of the total number of arthropod species have varied widely, especially for tropical forests. Intensive sampling of a half hectare of forest yielded just over 6000 arthropod species. Scaling up this result to the whole forest suggests that the total species diversity lies between 23,000 and 35,000 species and that 17,000 species per hectare exist. For full article, visit: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6113/1481.full
October 24, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS to Laurie McCormick: Research Assistant for Dr. Allen on the arrival of her beautiful little boy, Rickard Grant Houghton McCormick, weighing 5 pounds 7.5 ounces, born on October 20, 2012.
June 13, 2012
Congratulations to Jessica Simpson (now Nathan), from Brian Christie's lab, for receiving the 2011 Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal for outstanding MSc thesis!
May 22, 2012
Congratulations to graduate student, Jackson Chu (Dr. Tunnicliffe lab), whose paper was recently published in Invertebrate biology: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2012.00262.x/abstract
April, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS to the following grad students who successfully completed their degrees in the Spring 2012 term:
Jennifer Helfer (Christie)
Tim Hurley (Mazumder)
Irina Kassatenko (Hintz)
Jon LeBlanc (Hintz)
Webby Leung (Hintz)
Jacque St Laurent (Mazumder)
February, 2012
Shark researcher Julia Baum wins prestigious Sloan award. UVic biology professor and researcher Julia Baum was named among 126 recipients of the 2012 Sloan Fellowships, announced by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York last week. This is the first year the Sloan Award has included ocean sciences in this program. http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/tip.php?date=22022012#1290
February 05, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS to Kim Curry: Senior Lab Instructor on the arrival of her son, Oliver Matthew, weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces, born on February 5, 2012. A brother for Lilly.
February 01, 2012 
CONGRATULATIONS to Becky Metcalfe: Senior Lab Instructor on the birth of her beautiful little girl Hazel Jean Edgett, born Feb. 1, 2012 weighing 5 lbs and 8 oz.
January 09, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS to the following grad students who successfully completed their degrees in the Fall 2011 term:
Erica Jenkins (Mazumder)
Mike Price (Glickman)
Dani Sweetnam-Holmes (Brown)
Brendan Porter (Hawkins)
Candice St. Germain(Tunnicliffe)
Alison Edwards (Mazumder)
Matt Grey(Nahirney)
WELCOME to our new grad student:
Brenda Hookham (Page)
September 27, 2011
Dr. Patrick von Aderkas' book, Making Sense in the Life Sciences, is available from Oxford University Press. Co-authored with Margot Northey, the book is 100% Canadian and designed for students in the life sciences. It outlines general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such topics as writing essays and lab reports, conducting research, evaluating Internet sources, using electronic journal databases, documenting sources, and preparing résumés and application letters.
September 26, 2011
Biology grad student, Amber Messmer (Koop), is mentioned in a recent Times Colonist article about the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Amber works with the scientific team sampling the ocean floor.
September 14, 2011
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2011-12 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award winners:
Lauren Braun (Chow)
Elizabeth Hoffman (Lacourse)
Geoffrey Morris (Choy)
September 9, 2011
WELCOME to the 23 new grad students starting September 2011:
Annette Alber (Ehlting)
Juan Aldana (Hawkins)
Katherine Bell (Gregory)
Anne Berland (von Aderkas)
Stacey Boczulak (Hawkins)
Adrian Burrill (Baum)
Jackson Chu (Tunnicliffe)
Geoff deRosenroll (Delaney)
Graham Dixon-MacCallum (Gregory)
Amy Franklin (Constabel)
Finn Hamilton (Perlman)
Eric Hertz (Mazumder)
Jennifer Long (Varela)
Volodymyr Lugovskoi (Delaney)
Laura May (Lacourse)
Cayla Naumann (Hintz)
Amber Paulson (von Aderkas/Perlman)
Lara Puetz (Tunnicliffe/Taylor)
Angela Seto (Brown)
Philip-Edouard Shay (Constabel)
Travis Tai (Anholt)
Emily White (Christie)
Logan Wiwchar (Baum
September 2, 2011
WELCOME to our two new faculty members who started this week: DR. JULIA BAUM (baum@uvic.ca - PCH 105) and DR. FRANCIS JUANES (juanes@uvic.ca - CUNN 066).
CONGRATULATIONS to the following grad students who successfully completed their degrees last term:
Allison Churcher (Taylor)
Rebecca Jantzen (Choy)
Laura May (Lacourse)
Katherine Middleton (Mazumder)
Anita Narwani (Mazumder)
Katleen Robert (Juniper)
Graeme Roch (Sherwood)
July 21, 2011
Congratulations to former graduate student, Greg Owens (Taylor lab). His MSc work on how fish see above and underwater simultaneously is summarized in Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=bifocal-fish-sees-differently-above-11-07-20 and on Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/animals/four-eyed-fish-110720.html.
July 13, 2011
The BC Government declared the 2010-2011 school year the "BC Year of Science", hoping to encourage young people to pursue an education in science in order to prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow. The goal is to engage young British Columbians in science by highlighting how science works and why it matters, who scientists are, and the kind of work they do. The UVic Faculty of Science is developing monthly science activities for BC youth as well as short interviews with UVic scientists. The June entry features Biology faculty member Dr. Terri Lacourse: http://web.uvic.ca/sciweb/
June 14, 2011
Congrats to Alpha Wong (Constabel and Perlman labs), for being awarded a prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGSM) in the latest competition.
May 6, 2011
Congratulations to the following Biology grad students who completed their degrees last term!
Branden Beatty (Glickman)
Alison Page (Page)
Jessica Simpson (Christie)
May 2, 2011
Congratulations to Biology’s TC10K team, "The Biology Bionics", for placing SECOND in the University Post-Secondary Education category!!
The team members were: Russ Chedgy (intrepid team leader) Rosemary Barlow, Dawna Brand, Peter Constabel, Cherisse Dupreez, Adam Fekete; Janice Gough, Blake Hodgin, Tim Hurley, Arielle Kobryn, Marcos Lagunas, Kara Ronellenfitch, Heather Stewart, Lin Sun, Ian Swan, Lynn Yip, Patrick von Aderkas, Kris von Schalburg.
Thanks to Russ Chedgy for putting the team together and picking up all the race gear!
April 18, 2011
Congratulations to Janice Gough (Admin Officer) , winner of inaugural 2011 Faculty of Science Service Excellence Award. Thanks to Janice for all her hard work in support of all the department’s teaching, research and outreach enterprises. As Janice steps down from her position as commanding officer, “Operation Cunningham KIP”, her troops in the department salute her efforts and look forward to working with her on the tasks ahead.
April 15 , 2011
Congratulations to Laura May, Dr. Lacourse's MSc studnet, who just won the 2011 Canadian Association of Palynologists Student Research Award for her research on the morphological differentiation of Alnus pollen from western North America.
April 5 , 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Lacourse & Dr. Constabel who's research is featured in the following 2 BC Year of Science websites:
http://www.yearofsciencebc.ca/stories-scientists-and-careers/science-and-the-world-around-us/the-past-is-a-key-to-the-present-and-the-future/
http://www.yearofsciencebc.ca/stories-scientists-and-careers/science-and-the-world-around-us/trees-always-ready-for-an-attack/
March 22 , 2011
Congratulations to the 2011 undergraduate award winners!
NSERC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS (NSERC USRA)
Sam Ferguson (Page)
Tabitha Gaudet (Hawkins)
Molly Neil (Dower)
Geoffrey Morris (Nashmi)
Kieran Summerfeldt (Brown)
Christopher Yeker (Howard)
FACULTY OF SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS (SURA)
Robyn Cater (Christie)
Susannah Jesse (von Aderkas)
Michael McLean (Choy)
Daniel Moller (Christie)
Torrance Oravec (Reimchen)