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Ekanki Chawla, Isabelle St. Martin and Nikola Trotzuk have successfully cleared the first hurdle and will now present a research topic of their choice to our Selection Panel. When: March 28, 2018– 4PM – 6PM (Q&A Period to Follow) Where: D213 Abbotsford Campus The successful candidate will be traveling (all expenses paid!) to the London … Read more
UFV will be sending one Science student to London, England, all expenses paid, to attend the annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) July 25 to August 8, 2018. Past representatives have included: Tessa Webb & Perrin Waldock (2017), Vivienne Beard (2016), Kevin Kobes (2015), Etienne Dreyer (2014), Andrew Alexander (2013), and Timothy Richards (2012). … Read more
UFV will be sending one Science student to London, England, all expenses paid, to attend the annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) July 25 to August 8, 2018. Past representatives have included: Tessa Webb & Perrin Waldock (2017), Vivienne Beard (2016), Kevin Kobes (2015), Etienne Dreyer (2014), Andrew Alexander (2013), and Timothy Richards (2012). … Read more
EARLY morning today. Holy cow the late nights and early mornings are starting to take their toll. However, this morning was alright, as I was excited for my visit to the Oxford University vaccine lab today. By bus, it takes about 1.5 hours to get to Oxford from South Kensington, so not too long, but … Read more
We had specialist lectures first thing in the morning today. Headed out to Queen’s lawn after breakfast to find our group, and before splitting up into groups we heard a lecture from Sir Roy Anderson. He spoke about viruses and epidemics and ways we can study and control these. Post-lecture, we headed to our separate … Read more
On March 29th our shortlisted candidates presented their research topic of choice to a large audience including the Faculty of Science selection panel. All 3 presentations were spectacular which made for a difficult decision for our panel! We are excited to announce that Perrin Waldock and Tessa Webb were selected to represent UFV at the … Read more
Come on out and support our LIYSF Candidates! Everyone is welcome! Rebecca Robertson, Perrin Waldock and Tessa Webb have successfully cleared the first hurdle and will now present a research topic of their choice to our Selection Panel. When: March 29, 2017 – 5PM – 7PM (Q&A Period to Follow) Where: D217 Abbotsford Campus The … Read more
London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) July 26 to August 9, 2017 UFV will send one Science student to London, UK summer 2017 (all expenses paid) to attend the annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) http://www.liysf.org.uk/ Past representatives have included: Timothy Richards (2012), Andrew Alexander (2013), Etienne Dreyer (2014), Kevin Kobes (2015) and Vivienne … Read more
Today was the final day of the two week LIYSF adventure. After the opportunity to sleep-in and have breakfast, we had a participants forum, basically another debate session. However this time the debates were over very controversial topics, such as: use of nuclear power for the future, using pre-embryos for research, and whether science today … Read more
This morning we had another set of specialist lectures, where everyone split up to attend certain lectures that particularly interested them. I attending a lecture by a recent PhD grad that did her work on the access to energy in developing countries. Her work focused on renewable solar energy, setting up infrastructure in certain homes … Read more