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Article written by: Darren McDonald, UFV Today UFV’s new Centre for High Pressure Research (CHPR) will open this fall thanks to $530,725 in targeted funding. The only one of its kind in Canada, the centre will be led by Dr. Jacob Spooner, a UFV assistant professor in chemistry, who recently received a $208,557 John R. Evans … Read more
Are you a new or returning science student? If so, this event is for you! We are excited to be hosting our 16th Annual Science Social. Come on out and visit with fellow science students, science faculty and staff while getting information on the Science Clubs and Associations on campus. Of course there will be … Read more
The Faculty of Science would like to welcome our new full time hires! Although some of their faces are familiar, they bring with them many years of expertise! Department of Biology Jennifer Barrett Lab Instructor Jennifer has been a long term Sessional and LTA in the Department of Biology and brings with her years of … Read more
The Ghafourifar Lab has had quite the busy year between working in the lab, classes, travelling and presenting at conferences. Maor Arad won the annual Undergraduate Research Excellence Award at UFV held in May this year. Manjot Benning won the first-ever UFV Alumni Association’s Outstanding Leader award and went on to represent UFV at the … Read more
Manjot and Catherine here! Today is our last day at LIYSF! Wow these two weeks just flew by! We started off the day with breakfast and then our final keynote lecture with Professor Lee Cronin on Chemputation. Dr. Cronin is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Dr. Cronin talked about his recent … Read more
Hello everyone! It’s Catherine here to recap LIYSF day 12! It is so crazy that LIYSF is already almost over! Today was a bit of a slower day. We started off with having breakfast and going to our first specialist lectures of the day. Unfortunately, we didn’t get photos of our lectures today. My lecture … Read more
Day 11 at LIYSF! Today was an optional visit to the University of Cambridge. I woke up early, had breakfast and headed out on a two hour drive to the university. Catherine stayed at Imperial and got some rest in. At Cambridge we got a tour of the university. We got to see Trinity College, … Read more
Welcome to Day 10 of LIYSF! Today we started off the morning with a lecture from Professor Sir Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist, an international authority on fusion energy and a Princeton Professor of Astrophysical Sciences. Dr. Cowley discussed the science and prospects to accelerate fusion development and design and build the first fusion pilot plants. … Read more
Hi everyone! Catherine back to recount LIYSF 2023 day 9! Today we started our day off with specialist lectures! It was alumni day so every specialist was a previous attendee of LIYSF! My lecture was with Dr. Stephen Priebe on Aerodynamics, Turbulent Flow, and Computational Fluid Dynamics. We covered the history of aerodynamics, common misconceptions … Read more
Hi everyone! Catherine here, back to recap LIYSF 2023 Day 8! On day 8 Manjot and I began our day with visits to scientific facilities. Manjot went to The Jenner Institute at Oxford while I went to HR Wallingford and Oxford as well. Manjot got to learn about designing and developing vaccines and got to … Read more