UBC Human Resources features Dr. Benjamin Cheung as a Thriving Faculty
This month’s Thriving Faculty feature is a Q&A with Benjamin Cheung, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology. Thriving Faculty is a monthly column that highlights UBC faculty who exemplify the integration of health and wellbeing into their classrooms, research, departments and communities. More “I have found it helpful to meet with colleagues regularly to decompress, chat […]
Prof. Toni Schmader: A new alliance aims to close the gender gap in STEM
How can we teach children that girls can be as good at math and science as boys are? How do we encourage more women to study computer science and engineering? These are just a couple of the questions that a team of social scientists, STEM experts and industry professionals are uniting to answer. Engendering Success in […]
Times Higher Education: UBC Psychology among the top 10 in the world, 1st in Canada
UBC’s Department of Psychology ranks tenth in the world and first in Canada in the latest prestigious subject rankings released today by Times Higher Education (THE). Following UBC Psychology, the next Canadian psychology department to place was the University of Toronto at 13. 2018 marks the first year Times Higher Education is including psychology as […]
Research excellence: Dr. Kiran Soma receives James McKeen Cattell Fellowship
Dr. Kiran Soma, a professor and neuroscientist in the Department of Psychology, was awarded a 2017-18 James McKeen Cattell Fellowship. This annual fellowship awards recipients with an extended sabbatical period, allowing researchers to advance their one semester research period to a full year. Dr. Soma’s research examines the effects of steroids on behaviour, the brain, […]
Exceptional teaching: 2017 Robert E. Knox Master Teaching Awards
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Darko Odic and Dr. Mark Lam are the recipients of the 2017 Knox Teaching Awards. Each year, the Department of Psychology honours two outstanding individuals in the department who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to the education of students. These awards recognize and celebrate psychology faculty whose teaching practice is both exemplary […]
Dr. Kristin Laurin named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
As an emerging researcher in the field of psychology, Dr. Kristin Laurin was named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the program’s 2017 cohort. The program brings together early career researchers who are leading exceptional work, and helps to foster their research networks and leadership. Dr. Laurin is an assistant professor in the Department of […]
Our researchers support the report
UBC supports the recommendations made by the Fundamental Science Review—and so do our faculty. For more information on how you can get involved or for a list of resources, visit Canada’s Fundamental Science Review at research.ubc.ca. Our researchers were invited to talk about their research and why the recommendations of the report matter to them. […]
Rick Mercer visits UBC and the Centre for Gambling Research
Rick Mercer of the Rick Mercer Report on CBC immerses himself in cutting edge research — including a visit to the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC. In the segment, Rick Mercer talks gambling and slot machines with gambling researcher Spencer Murch.
New research demonstrates complexity underlying the ‘simplest form of learning’
For Dr. Catherine Rankin, a leader in the field of habituation research, understanding the way that habituation occurs in a simple organism has implications for a range of brain disorders in humans. C. elegans, the worms researchers in the Rankin lab study to understand learning and brain development, are nematodes that are widely used in neuroscience research for […]
1000 simple words to improve science communication
Inspired by popular web comic XKCD’s Thing Explainer, and motivated by a desire to get complex research ideas into the hands (and newsfeeds) of a broader audience, researchers in Dr. Rebecca Todd’s lab have been blogging about the lab’s publications using the 1000 most commonly used English words. “A lot of scientific writing can be […]