Thirty-three doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of British Columbia have received $4.8 million in funding through the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships programs.
Twenty-six doctoral students have been awarded the prestigious Vanier Scholarship, an award worth up to $150,000 over three years to pursue graduate work. UBC recipients will conduct research in the fields of medicine, psychology, forestry, engineering, social work and more.
“A volcanic tremor is a type of earthquake that occurs on volcanoes around the world,” says Kathi Unglert, who received a 2013 Vanier Scholarship to pursue her PhD research in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. “We can help to improve eruption forecasting if the mechanics underlying volcanic tremor are better understood.”
Seven UBC postdoctoral fellows have been named 2013 Banting Fellows, a $140,000 award over two years to pursue research in the fields of First Nations studies, genetics, international relations, biochemistry and more.
The UBC scholars were among 165 recipients of the Vanier scholarships and 70 Banting Fellows announced by the Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of State (Science and Technology) in September. The awards recognize leaders in their field and help attract and retain top talent in Canada.
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BACKGROUND
UBC’s 2013 Vanier Scholars and their fields of study are:
- Daiana Becker dos Santos – Cancer
- Kirandeep Bhullar – Bacterial pathogens
- Dan Bock – Evolution and ecology
- Ricardo Chaparro-Pacheco – Violence
- Dan Cohen – Politics and government
- Marcus Drover – Inorganic chemistry
- Kieran Fox– Cognitive science
- Nathaniel Furey – Aquatic ecology and limnology
- Jennifer Grants – Medical genetics
- Yuanshen Huang – Cancer
- Maziyar Jalaal – Mechanical engineering
- H. Bindy Kang – Societal and cultural dimensions of health
- Sabine Laguë – Animal physiology and metabolism
- Ada Leung – Cancer
- Natalie Marshall – Genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics
- Amir Hossein Masnadi Shirazi Nejad – Electronic circuit and devices
- AJung Moon – Robotics
- Giulia Muraca – Reproduction and pregnancy
- Sophia Murphy – International relations, development and trade
- Michael Muthukrishna – Multiculturalism and ethnic studies
- Dominika Nackiewicz – Metabolism and diabetes
- Katharine Sedivy-Haley – Immunology
- Carolyn Tysor – Evolution and ecology
- Unglert, Katharina – Geophysics
- Sarah Victor –Psychosocial and health behaviour
- Clayton Whitt – Climate change
UBC’s 2013 Banting Fellows and their fields of study:
- Daisuke Ennishi – Cancer
- · Jeremy Hirota – Environmental influences on health
- · Supipi Kaluarachchi Duffy – Genetics
- · Eric Largy – Cellular and molecular biology – Biochemistry
- · Marinus van Loenhout – Cellular and molecular biology – Genetics
- · Lyndsay Hayhurst – International relations, development and trade
- · Dylan Robinson – Indigenous peoples