News and Events
Cultivate your career at Highline Mushrooms, Canada’s largest mushroom grower and 3rd largest mushroom grower in North America. They have 2000 employees and 15 farms across Canada. They have recently implemented a Management training program for new graduates in Agricultural Sciences offering an opportunity to grow their careers with our company and move into operation … Read more
Dr. Lucy Lee, Dean of the Faculty of Science and research students Brenna Hay, Petra Dueck Lee, and Arianne Qanbery attended the In Vitro Biology Conference held in Tampa, Florida this month. This international conference hosted by The Society for In Vitro Biology focused on current trends and cutting edge topics in plant and animal … Read more
Worker Bee Honey, the largest beekeeping operation in BC, is setting up an analytical lab to analyze honey samples collected around North America. Currently, a Bruker 400 MHz NMR Food Screener is on site with plans for also setting up quantitative PCR pollen analysis. In addition, collaborations with groups using Raman spectrometry and mass spectrometry … Read more
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