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May 5, 2022JOB OPPORTUNITY: Y FACILITATION INC. IS HIRING
Sustainable Innovations - Business Associate ABOUT THE POSITION Are you a young professional eager to help emerging sustainable innovations become a reality?
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May 5, 2022EMILY CRANSTON RECEIVES THE LESUEUR MEMORIAL AWARD
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Cranston on receiving the LeSueur Memorial Award! This award is “given to an individual for the development of technical excellence. Some of this work can have been completed outside of Canada, but the recipient must have a strong Canadian connection.”
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April 18, 2022BPI EDII Committee Launch
On March 17th, the newly formed BPI's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Indigeneity (EDII) Committee held its first meeting with the members from all organization levels within BPI.
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April 13, 2022Chisholm Awards for Innovation in Forestry - Apply by Apr 22
Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is inviting young researchers in the forest sector to apply for the Chisholm Awards for Innovation in Forestry, a brand new annual program built to recognize youth leadership and innovation in the forest sector; at production facilities, in the forest, along the supply chain, or via product innovation
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March 31, 2022BPI warmly welcomes Dr. Michael Tam to the Institute’s research family!
Dr. Michael Tam obtained his BEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Australia in 1982 and 1991 respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University, and worked at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for 15 years. In June 2007 Dr.
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March 31, 2022BPI Business Intelligence Team complete their term
The second cohort of BPI internship completed their 6 month term at the end of March. Four extraordinary young talents joined the Operations team and had provided tremendous support in both research and business operations as a sub unit called 'BPI Business Intelligence Team'.
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March 21, 2022Call for joint grant application - Bioeconomy in the North
BPI has been receiving expressions of interest related to the Bioeconomy in the North (BiN) competition from potential partners in Europe that are looking for a partner at UBC or other institutes in Canada. The minimum consortium requirement is three partners from three different countries and at least one industry partner from one of the membe
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March 8, 2022BPI warmly welcomes Dr. Junling Guo to the Institute’s research family!
Dr. Guo arrived at UBC in late February to spend his six month sabbatical on collaborative research work with the Biobased Colloids Materials Group (BiCMat).
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February 14, 2022FIRST BOREAL ALLIANCE EXCHANGE STUDENT TO RECEIVE HER PH.D. IN VANCOUVER
In September, BPI welcomed doctoral candidate Rubina Ajdary from Aalto University in Finland to begin her 6-month exchange program at UBC under the Boreal Alliance initiative. On January 27th, Ajdary successfully defended her Ph.D thesis on biomedical solutions for Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
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February 4, 2022DR. SHAWN MANSFIELD NAMED AS 2021 AAAS FELLOW
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected Dr. Shawn Mansfield to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honours within the global scientific community.