News and Events
The 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE 2019) was held in Quebec City June 3-7, 2019. This annual gathering continues to be Canada’s premier conference for chemistry and the chemical sciences. Nine UFV Chemistry students accompanied by two of their supervisors, Professors Linus Chiang and Golfam Ghafourifar, joined 32 other participating countries in poster … Read more
The Faculty of Science awarded 95 Bachelor of Science degrees, 7 Associate of Science degrees, 2 Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree, 4 GIS Certificates, and 7 Engineering Physics Mechatronics Diplomas on June 4, 2019. Congratulations to each and everyone of you! Perrin Waldock, received the Governor General’s Silver Medal. He earned a near-perfect grade point … Read more
If you don’t have your hands on the the most recent copy of UFV’s Skookum magazine yet, you can read it here! As one of the top fish-cell-culturists in the world, Dr. Lucy Lee’s work is making a big splash in several areas of science including toxicology, nutrition, conservation, and medicine! Skookum – Celebrating the … Read more
The Faculty of Science is pleased to welcome Dr. James Inkster, Research Fellow, Department of Radiology from Boston’s Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School as part of our Dean’s Seminar Series. “Looking inside the body without a knife: Developing novel probes for medical imaging – the case for 18F-labelled Rhodamines” WHEN: Thursday, June 6th TIME: 10:30 – 11:30 AM WHERE: D215, … Read more
Seventy students from 13 regions throughout BC and the Yukon presented their projects in Fredericton, New Brunswick this week at the 58th Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF). At yesterday’s Awards Ceremony, BC and Yukon students received 140 awards and scholarships valued at $194,550 including 6 gold medals, 14 silver medals and 21 bronze medals! Among the … Read more
Team Fraser Valley (pictured below left to right) Andrew Armstrong, Jasneet Brar (delegate), Sarah Choi, Neelah Hassanzadeh, Caio de Figueiroa, and Sonja Armstrong (delegate) have arrived in Fredericton for the 2019 Canada Wide Science Fair. We are so proud to have you represent our region! Our team joined 500 other top young scientists from across … Read more
More than 100 UFV employees were honoured at last night’s Service Recognition Dinner held at the Quality Hotel & Conference Centre. We would like to congratulate each and every one of you and in particular those of you from the Faculty of Science! TEN YEARS Raji Balagopal – Chemistry Karen Cooper – Science Advisor Grant … Read more
UFV welcomed close to 100 students in grades 6-12 from around the region to compete in the final round of the BC Secondary Schools Math Contest. The preliminary round was written at each of the participating schools. The top students from each school advanced to the finals which was held on Friday, May 3rd at … Read more
Please join us immediately following the convocation ceremony on June 4th to celebrate our recent Faculty of Science graduates! Meet us outside in the celebration area for some refreshments and light snacks! This is great opportunity to get those candid photos with your professors and classmates. Be sure to invite your family and friends!
On April 25th students from South Poplar Elementary School had the opportunity to hang out at UFV for the afternoon. They enjoyed pizza lunch in the cafeteria and then headed to the Chemistry lab for demonstrations with Dr. Cory Beshara, Chemistry Department Head, with some help from Pedro Montoya-Pelaez and Aileen Ablog.