Backed by CRC funding, these gifted professors, eminent academics and researchers — the Chairs — ‘set up shop’ in Canadian universities, freed to focus on research excellence and so attract top-notch students and researchers from around the world; the goal being that insights and theories through collective work will translate into tangible realities.
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UBC Psychology Canada Research Chairs also include Janet Werker, Joseph Henrich and Christiane Hoppmann.
Photo by Martin Dee
Standing (l-r): Toni Schmader (UBC Psychology), Jeremy Seamans, Christian Schoof, Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Srikantha Phani, Yvonne Lamers, Gabriela Cohen Freue, Carles Vilarino-Guell, Christina Laffin, Abel Rosado
Seated (l-r): Jiaying Zhao (UBC Psychology), Carla Nappi, Susanne Clee, Martin Ordonez, Kiley Hamlin (UBC Psychology)
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