LFS Animal Welfare Alumni Come Together to Create Wildlife Accreditation Program
Three UBC Animal Welfare Program alumni have joined forces to create an accreditation program that will encourage wildlife and rodent control companies to make ethical decisions when controlling wildlife populations. Sara Dubois (PhD & MSc, Animal Science, 2014 & 2003), Nicole Fenwick (MSc, Animal Science, 2005) and Erin A’tman Ryan (BSc Applied Biology, Major in […]
UBC Animal Welfare Judging & Assessment Team takes 1st place at Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging/Assessment Competition
The Animal Welfare Judging & Assessment Team placed 1st , of thirteen teams, in the undergraduate competition at the 16th Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging & Assessment Competition, held Nov 12-13 at The Ohio State University. Congratulations to team members, and Faculty of Land & Food Systems applied animal biology majors, Gabriela Schauber, Varsha Rani, Nevene […]
Dancing Cows: Research on outdoor access for dairy cows (video)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRoNd1UJgs[/youtube] These are dairy cows that are provided access to a bark mulch pack outside of the barn for the first time in their life. Cows often show similar play behaviours when provided (first time) access to pasture. The cows in this movie were part of a trial that investigated the preference of dairy […]
Marina von Keyserlingk and Daniel Weary win first ever Boehringer-Ingelheim Ruminant Well-being Award, presented at 2016 World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, Ireland
https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/press-release/marina-von-keyserlingk-and-daniel-weary-win-first-ruminant-well-being-award
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award recipient Samantha Jung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4fV9wSgISI
PhD student Lucia Amendola 1st place in the research poster competition at the 2016 International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) conference, Edinburgh, UK.
https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2016/08/16/animal-welfare-ubc-students-placed-first-and-third-in-the-poster-competition-at-isae-2016-conference/
Adam Schriver public talk: The Neuroethics of Animal Welfare
Thursday, September 22, 3:30pm, Room 40, Food, Nutrition & Health Building, 2205 East Mall. In this presentation I provide an overview of the under-discussed intersection between neuroethics and animal welfare. I consider new developments in applied ethics that can come from (A) what neuroscience can tell us and (B) from what neuroscience allows us to do. […]
“Tiny cages make for sluggish lab rats” UBC research featured in Science Magazine
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/tiny-cages-make-sluggish-lab-rats
Animal welfare students in the poster competition at ISAE 2016
Congratulations to PhD student Lucia Amendola for placing first in the poster competition at the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) 2016 Conference, in Edinburgh UK. Lucia’s poster was on “Understanding variation in rat responses to CO2 ” Lucia isae16 final. Congratulations also to applied animal biology undergraduate Mari Kondoh, and supervisor Dr Becca Franks, […]
Becca Franks, 2015 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize Recipient
https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/article/spotlight-becca-franks-2015-killam-postdoctoral-fellow-research-prize-recipient