Responsible for the Faculty’s promotion and tenure reviews, faculty retention efforts, facilitating dual career positions and peer evaluation of teaching initiatives. Responsible for academic advising ...

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The Faculty of Science is always looking for students to step up to the challenge and get involved with our community. Whether you're looking to gain professional skills, work with motivated peers, or ...

Students who have been approved by Science Advising for “deferred standing” status in a course are expected to sit at the first scheduled time for a make-up exam. As soon as you have been approved for ...

Researchers have found that high levels of salt kill fertilized coho salmon eggs, raising concerns about the use of road salt ...

Beaty Biodiversity Museum Director Wayne Maddison has uncovered 30 to 50 never-before-identified species of jumping spiders as part of a Conservation International expedition to Papua New Guinea. The ...

A UBC researcher has turned up the first conclusive explanation for the origin of the Sharktooth Hill bonebed--a massive prehistoric marine mass grave in southern California. The Sharktooth Hill ...

Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered northern abalone, according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea ...

UBC zoologists and researchers at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates its signature lunge-feeding behaviour – and may help explain their ...

University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered the unique survival mechanisms of a marine organism that may be tiny, but in some ways has surpassed sharks in its predatory efficiency.

A sweeping synthesis of two decades worth of data from Canada's major earth sciences project has yielded an unprecedented geological map of North America that offers researchers a glimpse back in time ...