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Café Scientifique 2011-2012
"Before Tragedy Strikes: The Quest to Predict Megadisasters "
Dr. Florin Diacu,
Dept of Mathematics and Statistics,
Tue Mar 13th 7:00pm at Solstice Cafe,
529 Pandora
Café Scientifique is a monthly public discussion series . Click here for science dates and times and here for addtional health related public lectures.
"Golden alternatives for fighting cancer: Nanotechnology's contribution to the medicine of the future"
Dr. Alexandre Brolo,
Dept of Chemistry, Tue Feb 7th 7:00pm at Solstice Cafe,
529 Pandora
Café Scientifique is a monthly public discussion series . Click here for science dates and times and here for addtional health related public lectures.
The Tri-Faculties (Humanities, Social Sciences and Science) are seeking candidates for the position of Associate Dean Academic Advising.
Dr. Patrick von Aderkas' recent book, Making Sense in the Life Sciences, is available from OUP Canada.
Applied Mathematics Perspectives 2011: Mathematical Biology Workshop and IGTC Summit: July 14-16, 2011 Please see website for details and registration at: http://www.mitacs.ca/events/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190&Itemid=200&lang=en
UVic Chemistry Alumni and Friends Reception: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. In the lobby of the Bob Wright Centre for Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Join us for a fun evening to welcome our newest Chemistry alumni, the 2011 graduates, catch up with old friends, take in a lecture or tour, and enjoy some delicious appetizers and sweets. A cash bar will be available. Please RSVP by June 1, 2011 to Rosemary, rpulez@uvic.ca or 250-721-7153. Guests welcome.
Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Dr. Caren Helbing, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology. Pesticides, drugs and industrial effluents are being released into the environment daily, yet we know little about their adverse effects. Biochemist Caren Helbing is working hard to change that. Over the past
decade, she has provided advanced scientific tools and technical training to regulatory agencies and private sector companies to help them generate meaningful environmental assessment information. She continues to develop new technology for environmental
monitoring, which includes a US patent for tissue culture.
Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Research: Dr. Alexandre Brolo
Department of Chemistry. Imagine a gold cube so small that its cross-width is about 5,000 times thinner than a human hair. The colour is not the usual yellow we associate with gold because metals at those dimensions change colour when molecules stick to their surface. Chemist Alexandre Brolo looks for new ways to fabricate very small metallic structures and explores their interesting properties in a variety of applications, such as sensors for cancer diagnostics and the fabrication of more efficient solar cells.
Dr. Terri Lacourse - exploring BC's ancient rainforests using plant fossils.
BC Year of Science
Profile
Dr. Florin Diacu - author of Megadisasters; Predicting the Next Catastrophe.
BC Year of Science
Profile
Rob Cook, UVic undergraduate, visits school district 5: http://www.sd5.bc.ca/ (scroll down)
February 1st, 2011: Free Public Lecture 'Why Science Matters' by author and physicist Dr. Brian Greene, as the Vifor Pharma distinguished speaker.
The talk starts at 7:30 PM in the Farquhar Auditorium in the University Centre, followed by a book signing at 8:45 PM. For more information on Dr. Brian Greene please visit http://www.roycecarlton.com/speaker/Brian-Greene/
November 2010: Faculty of Science Awards Ceremony
Alex Brolo, Chemistry, and Adam Monahan, Earth and Ocean Sciences, were recognized for thier impressive research accomplishments with Awards of Research Excellence.
Jill Simmons, Mathematics and Statistics, was recognized for the high quality of her teaching with the Award for Teaching Excellence.
New Faculty members Robert Lipson, Dean of Science and Professor of Chemistry, Alfonso Gracia-Saz, Senior Instructor in Mathematics and Statistics, and Barbara Ehlting, Senior Instructor in Biology, were welconed to the Faculty of Science.
September 2010:
Calgary Alumni Event
Dr. Tom Tiedje, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Dr. Robert Lipson, Dean, Faculty of Science invite you to attend a reception for
Alumni of the Faculties of Science and Engineering
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Calgary AB
West Restaurant and Bar - +30 level
(3rd Level of the Scotia Center, 245 8th Avenue SW) 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Tom Tiedje will be hosting and attending the reception on behalf of both faculties.
Please register by September 22 at http://alumni.uvic.ca/events/index.php
For questions, please contact Kate Hollefreund at 250-472-4210 or khollefr@uvic.ca
May 2010:
Terry Pearson, a Professor in Biochemistry and Microbiology, won a Craigdarroch Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research. He has spent much of his career to combatting African sleeping sickness.
April 2010:
Check out the Spring 2010 issue of Science Matters on the Alumni and Friends page.
The link between ice and iron in the Arctic Ocean
Fabulous new NanoFab facility
The elephant in medicinal in chemistry
Researching the mystery of syphilis
Twenty years of adventure in science, engineering and technology
Researchers debut green alternative to chemical herbicides
Math may hold answers to understanding disease
Those chemistry guys... and more
June 2009:
Dr. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller, Earth & Ocean Science, awarded the 2009 E.R. Ward Neale Medal by the Geological Association of Canad for her outstanding efforts to communicate and explain geoscience to the public.
Dr. Thomas Pedersen, Earth & Ocean Science was selected, after an extensive international search, as Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.
April 2009:
Dr. Penny Codding, Chemistry, winner of the 2009 Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. Sara Ellison, Physics & Astronomy, winner of the 2009 Research Excellence Award.
February, 2009:
Dr. Florin Diacu, Mathematics & Statistics is an invited speaker at the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science in Toronto on March 1, 2009. The topic, "Before tragedy Strikes: The Quest to Predict Megadisasters" The lecture is co-sponsored by the Fields Institute for Reseach in Mathematical Sciences.
December, 2008:
New faculty appointment:
Dr. Chris Nelson joined the Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology. Nelson studies regulation of transcription by post-translational modifications of histone and non-histone proteins; application of molecular and genomic approaches to the study of novel chromatin modifying enzymes in yeast and mammalian cells.
November, 2008:
The new science building, The Bob Wright Centre, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences was formally opened on November 24, 2008. Media release.
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