Four UBC faculty members recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada include
an electrical engineer specializing in electronic signal processing, a neuropsychologist
who studies the human-canine bond, and two ocean science researchers.
Rabab Ward, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Psychology
Prof. Stanley Coren and Earth and Ocean Sciences adjunct professors Kenneth
Denman and Chi Shing Wong will be inducted to the society with 58 other new
fellows at a ceremony to take place in Ottawa Nov. 19.
Ward is a leader in the application of digital signal processing. She has
developed methods to clarify electronic information received, leading to advances
in television and video signal reception, and improvement in early detection
of breast cancer using X-ray mammographic images.
Coren is best known to the public for his series of best-selling books on
dogs, including The Intelligence of Dogs.
His research focuses on perception, particularly hearing and vision, behavioural
medicine, behavioural genetics, and general cognitive processes.
Earth and Ocean Sciences adjunct professor and alumnus Kenneth Denman studies
the linkages between physical and biological processes in the upper ocean. He
was one of the first oceanographers to recognize the importance of the wind-mixed
layer of ocean to plankton productivity.
Earth and Ocean Sciences Adjunct Prof. Chi Shing Wong has been a pioneer in
international research on the carbon dioxide cycle between the ocean and the
atmosphere.
Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada is considered Canada’s senior academic
accolade.
UBC now has 143 Royal Society fellows, second only to the University
of Toronto.
