The American Association for the Advancement of Science will hold its Annual Meeting in Vancouver for the first time.
| 177 | Number of Annual Meetings the AAAS has held |
| 8 | Number of meetings held outside of the United States (three in Toronto, three in Montreal, one in Ottawa and one special national meeting in Mexico City.) |
| 1981 | The last time the meeting was held in Canada (Toronto). |
| 800+ | Number of journalists and public information officers attending and reporting on science news at AAAS annual meetings. |
| 8,126 | Number of attendees in the 2011 meeting in Washington, DC. |
| 2,079 | Number of people attended Family Science Day in 2011. |
| 370 | Number of academic symposium proposals submitted (140 from Canada.) |
| 81 | UBC researchers were involved in 57 symposium submissions. |
| 27 | UBC researchers are participating in 31 approved symposia. |
| 14 | Number of sustainability-related symposia with UBC participants. |