Research

As the 2006 Rhodes Scholar, Matthew Chan will be putting his UBC Bachelor of Arts to work with a $100,000, two-year scholarship to pursue a MSc in global health science at Oxford University -- a degree the Vernon, BC native hopes will be an extension of his volunteer work in Uganda and the Dominican Republic.

Awards

2005 Brockhouse Canada Prize - Science Professors Doug Bonn, Walter Hardy and Ruixing Liang

Canada Council Killam Research Prize - Microbiology Prof. Brett Finlay

Guggenheim Fellowship Awards - Screenwriter and Assoc. Prof. Linda Svendsen and Chinese History Prof. Timothy Brook

NSERC Herzberg Gold medal - Chemistry Prof. Emeritus David Dolphin

NSERC Steacie Fellowships - Botany and Forest Sciences Assoc. Prof. Joerg Bohlmann and Computer Science Assoc. Prof. Gail Murphy

Order of BC - Surgery Prof. Larry Goldenberg and Nuclear Physics Prof. Emeritus Erich Vogt, along with philanthropists Gerald McGavin and Prof. Emeritus Wallace Chung

Order of Canada - Microbiology Prof. Brett Finlay, Animal Welfare Prof. David Fraser, Chemistry Prof. Emeritus David Dolphin, Family Practice Asst. Clinical Prof. Harvey Thommasen, Oceanography Prof. Emeritus Timothy Parsons, and Zoology Prof. Emeritus David Suzuki

Order of Portugal - UBC Okanagan Assoc. Prof. Carlos Teixeira awarded Portugal’s highest civilian award

Royal Society of Canada - English Prof. Eva-Marie Kröller, English Prof. Laurence Ricou, Health Care Prof. Clyde Hertzman, Zoology Prof. Sarah Otto, Community and Regional Planning Prof. William Rees, Biochemistry Prof. Natalie Strynadka and Neurology Prof. Yu Tian Wang

Trudeau Scholars - Graduate students: Anthropology’s Kate Hennessy; Art History, Visual Arts and Theory student Rajdeep Singh Gill; and Interdisciplinary Studies’ Samuel Spiegel.