Moving online: roadmap and long-term forecast
With most post-secondary institutions moving online for teaching in the fall, Nina von Keyserlingk and several colleagues have written an article to address issues related to the discipline of animal science. Read the article, “Moving online: roadmap and long-term forecast”: https://academic.oup.com/af/article/10/3/36/5875648
Behavioral changes associated with fever in transition dairy cows
New research from the Animal Welfare program looks at behavioural changes associated with fever in transition dairy cows. Dairy cows are often diagnosed with fever without showing clinical symptoms of disease. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in feeding, social, and lying behaviors of cows with fever but without clinical disease, as […]
Efficacy of motion-activated sprinklers as a humane deterrent for urban coyotes
Brynn McLellan, 2019 AABI graduate (recipient of Medal in Applied Biology), recently published her research from her undergraduate thesis project. The manuscript “Efficacy of motion-activated sprinklers as a humane deterrent for urban coyotes” is now available online in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife. Brynn’s work was a collaborative effort with the Stanley Park Ecology […]
Hannah Spitzer awarded Canadian Society of Animal Science Award for Undergraduate Achievement
Congratulations to Hannah Spitzer, an undergraduate student in LFS who recently won the 2020 Canadian Society of Animal Science Award for Undergraduate Achievement. Hannah is currently an NSERC Undergraduate scholar, doing research out at UBC’s Dairy Centre in Agassiz under the supervision of Dr. Nina von Keyserlingk. Learn more about Hannah as one of our class of […]