Congratulations to these Spring 2023 Graduates who have worked with the AWP this past year!
Anna Ratuski – Anna completed her PhD with the Animal Welfare Program this spring. Dr. Ratuski studied conceptual and applied approaches to environmental enrichment for mice and rats living in laboratories. Her work demonstrates how species-appropriate changes to conventional laboratory housing can allow for the expression of motivated behaviours and improve rodent welfare. Read about […]
AWP Students Present at Recent UBC Research Showcases
Back in March, undergraduate and graduate students with the Animal Welfare Program presented at the Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Conference (LFS GSC), and undergraduate students presented at the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC). These two conferences were opportunities to showcase not only graduate research projects that undergraduates have been assisting with, but also […]
Apply for a Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Award (WLIURA)
The Animal Welfare Program has received funding through UBC’s Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards (WLIURA) to hire current UBC undergraduate students in a number of different positions for May 2023 to August 2024! These positions are AWP Data Visualization for Dairy Cattle Welfare, AWP History and Communications Student Researcher, and Companion Animal Research Lab […]
Summer Undergraduate Work Learn Positions Posted
The Animal Welfare Program has received funding through UBC’s Work Learn Program to hire current UBC undergraduate students in a number of different positions for May 2023 to August 2024! These are part-time positions (maximum of 300 hours). To see if you are eligible for the program, visit the Work Learn website. The two types of positions available […]
Meet our Current Work Learn Students!
The Animal Welfare Program has received funding through UBC’s Work Learn Program to hire current UBC undergraduate students in a number of different positions for May 2023 to August 2024! These are part-time positions (maximum of 300 hours). To see if you are eligible for the program, visit the Work Learn website. The two types of positions available […]
Undergraduate Researchers are Making an Impact in Animal Welfare!
The Animal Welfare Program (AWP) is thrilled to support undergraduate students in developing their research expertise through a number of programs. We would like to introduce you to a few of the students who have conducted research over the past year. These student researchers have covered a range of disciplines within the program. While most […]
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UBC Animal Welfare Judging Team Places 4th at Intercollegiate Competition
Congratulations to the Animal Welfare Judging team: (pictured from left to right) Laura Rounding, Eugenia Kwok, Katie Mills, Elena Pakalnis and Tanjot Gill, on their 4th place finish (of 11 teams in the undergraduate division) at the 14th Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging and Assessment Competition at Michigan State University on Nov 22-23, 2014. This was […]
LFS Students to Represent UBC at U21 Conference
Three APBI Applied Animal Biology students–Katie Mills, Eugenia Kwok and Tiffany Tse–have been selected by UBC as the University’s delegates to the U21 conference.