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December 18, 2025Six BPI Researchers Awarded the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund
Congratulations to our BPI researchers who are among UBC’s 71 projects awarded provincial funding through the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund! The....
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December 17, 2025BPI Connect 2025 Celebrates Innovation, Partnerships, and a Year of Collective Achievement
BPI Connect 2025, held at the UBC Life Science Centre on December 11, celebrated the close of another wonderful year marked by collective successes and...
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December 15, 2025BPI is Conducting 2025 EDI.I Survey
BPI is conducting an anonymous survey on equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity(EDI.I). The information collected from this survey will help us better un
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December 5, 2025Dr. Shawn Mansfield Named a 2025 UBC Distinguished University Scholar
Huge congratulations to Dr. Shawn Mansfield on being named one of UBC's 2025 Distinguished University Scholars! A well-deserved recognition for his...
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December 2, 2025How Dr. Sumi Siddiqua Is Helping Transform Waste Into the Future of Housing
Using recycled boxes reduces carbon emissions, diverts waste, and decreases reliance on energy-intensive materials like concrete and steel. It also opens...
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November 28, 2025Dr. Mark MacLachlan Received The CIC’s Canadian Light Source T. K. Sham Award in Materials Chemistry
Congratulations to Dr. Mark MacLachlan, winner of the Canadian Light Source T. K. Sham Award in Materials Chemistry from Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC)...
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November 28, 2025Dr. Steven Hallam on The Globe and Mail: Microbe-assisted Mining
Dr. Steven Hallam and team are exploring how microbial communities can help extract critical minerals and heal mine-impacted environments...
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November 25, 202537 BPI Researchers Named Among World's Top 2% Most Cited Scientists
A total of 37 BPI researchers are named among the 100,000 most-cited scientists, or among the top 2% of most-cited scientists in their respective subfields according to the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators released by Elsevier in September 2025. The database…
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November 14, 2025Dr. Orlando Rojas & Dr. Feng Jiang Named Among Top 1% Most Cited Researchers
Congratulations to Dr. Orlando Rojas and Dr. Feng Jiang for being named by Clarivate to the list of the top 1% most cited researchers worldwide in 2025!
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November 14, 2025Dr. Kwang Ho Kim Named 2025 Energy & Fuels Rising Star by ACS
Congratulations to Dr. Kwang Ho Kim who has been named a 2025 Energy & Fuels Rising Star by the Energy & Fuels journal ACS! This recognition highlights his...
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November 13, 2025Maria Lauren Wins 1st Place in the BEST Poster Award at 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting
Our undergrad researcher Maria Lauren, supervised by Dr. Kwang Ho Kim, won 1st Place in the BEST Poster Award (Division of Fuels, Petrochemicals, and Energy)...
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November 13, 2025Marina Mehling Won 1st Place in the Marcus Wallenberg Young Researchers' Challenge
Marina Mehling won first place in the 2025 Marcus Wallenberg Young Researchers’ Challenge. Her winning presentation demonstrates