Dr. Catharine Winstanley appointed as new director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Other than her research, one of Dr. Winstanley’s favourite parts of her job is mentoring trainees.
Dr. Catharine Rankin receives IBANGS Distinguished Investigator Award
The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society Distinguished Investigator Award recognizes the important scientific contributions of a leading researcher in the field of behavioural and neural genetics.
Psychology researchers awarded CIHR Project Grants
Dr. Stan Floresco, Dr. Liisa Galea, and Dr. Catharine Winstanley received Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fall 2022 Project Grants.
UBC Psychology Student Spotlight: The voices behind ‘Chivalry is not Dead’
Learn about the voices and minds behind the radio show ‘Chivalry is not Dead’.
Psychology researchers receive 2022 Michael Smith Health Research BC Awards
Dr. Frances Chen and Dr. Liisa Galea received 2022 Convening & Collaborating Awards to advance their research.
Melody Salehzadeh spearheads glove recycling program to address pandemic-related plastic waste
Melody Salehzadeh’s project to combat plastic waste has collected roughly 48,700 gloves, diverting 146.1 kilograms of waste from landfills this year.
Celebrating our spring 2022 masters and doctoral graduates
Read more about their research, why they chose UBC, and their words of wisdom for future graduate students.
How a young scientist turned his research career into community outreach
PhD student Ryan Tomm spoke with BrainFacts.org about his research, his science outreach, and how both can benefit his community.
New research shows sex differences in neurogenesis
Drs. Timothy O’Leary and Jason Snyder found that male rats learned slower and female rats learned faster when new neurons were removed.
Health research overlooks important differences between sexes
Dr. Liisa Galea and colleagues have published an analysis of 3,193 neuroscience and psychiatry studies from 2009 and 2019.