Event: Join UBC for Science Rendezvous, a free festival that takes science out of the lab and onto the streets, on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Festival-goers of all ages will get a chance to meet with world-class researchers and innovators, participate in hands-on experiments and see amazing scientific demonstrations.
Please note, in accordance with UBC campus rules, masks or face coverings are required in public indoor spaces.
Date/Time: Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Photo/Assignment editors: Highlights from the festival include:
Time | Activity | Location |
11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. | Touchable fossils and Hominin Hall guided tours | Pacific Museum of Earth |
12 p.m. |
Race to Immunity: Learn the steps to designing, producing and distributing a vaccine in a pandemic |
Michael Smith Building, Room 101 |
1 p.m. | Wild Mushrooms: Careful What You Eat | Earth Sciences Building, Room 1013 |
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
12 p.m. |
Chemistry shows and hands-on room
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream |
Between Chemistry B and D wings |
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Fun with Robots |
Earth Sciences Building lobby
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10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Make an Air Vortex Cannon | Beaty Biodiversity Museum courtyard |
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | LEGO Bricks, Paper Circuits and Oscilloscopes | Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012 |
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Create Your Own Gut | Outside the Beaty Museum |
Website: www.science.ubc.ca/science-rendezvous-2022
Locations (map): Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Chemistry D Block, Earth Sciences Building, Michael Smith Building, Pacific Museum of Earth
Available for interviews:
Dr. Anna Blakney (she/her)
Assistant Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories & School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: anna.blakney@msl.ubc.ca
Language(s): English
- Race to Immunity event, vaccines, RNA vaccines, immunology
Dr. Mary Berbee
Professor, Department of Botany
Email: mary.berbee@gmail.com
Language(s): English
- Edible wild mushrooms, and which ones to avoid, fungi
Dr. Suzana Straus (she/her)
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Email: sstraus@chem.ubc.ca
Language(s): English, French
- Liquid nitrogen ice cream making, fostering and encouraging children’s interest in science, chemistry activities, chemistry of colours, fuels and materials, Science Rendezvous
Dr. Kirsten Hodge (she/her)
Director, Pacific Museum of Earth
Email: pme@eoas.ubc.ca
Language(s): English
- Science education, how the Earth works, earth science
Charlotte Clayton (she/her), Sophie Cotton (she/her)
MSc students, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Emails: charclay@student.ubc.ca and sophieacotton@gmail.com
Language(s): English (Clayton, Cotton), Spanish (Cotton)
- Create Your Own Gut activity, microbiota, microbiota and lifestyle, microbiota and health and disease
Hans Ghezzi (he/him)
MSc student, Department of Bioinformatics
Language(s): English, Italian
Email: panzone@student.ubc.ca
- Create Your Own Gut activity, microbiota, microbiota and lifestyle, microbiota and health and disease
Images and b-roll available for media: www.bit.ly/ScienceRendezvousUBC