Dr. Ruan Daros Alumni Profile
Associate Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná in Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil What brought you to the Animal Welfare Program?I came to know the program through the long term collaboration between the AWP and LETA (Applied ethology and animal welfare lab at the Federal University of Santa Catarina – Brazil). What have you […]
International Women’s Day 2021
Happy International Women’s Day! UBC’s President Dr. Santa Ono is recognizing one of our amazing graduate students today as an Unsung Hero – Nadia Xenakis! Hear his comments on IWD and Nadia’s contribution to Animal Welfare and the UBC community. Weekly Update, March 5, 2021: International Women’s Day
Dr. Sara Dubois Alumni Profile
Chief Scientific Officer at the BC SPCA and Adjunct Professor at UBC in Vancouver, BC What brought you to the Animal Welfare Program? In 2000 when I was looking for opportunities after my BSc it was the only graduate program I found that could allow me to merge my interests in caring for individual wild […]
World Wildlife Day 2021!
The United Nations General Assembly declares today, March 3rd, as World Wildlife Day! This year the theme is Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet. Today celebrates the central role of forests, as well as species and ecosystems in general in sustaining the lives of millions around the world. Here in the AWP, and LFS […]
Using facial expression to assess human empathy toward farm animals undergoing painful procedures
New research by UBC researchers Lexis Ly and Dan Weary, today published in PloS One, shows that human facial expressions can be used to assess human-animal empathy. Facial expressions have been used previously to evaluate human-human empathy, but this study provides the first evidence that facial expressions provide a valid method to assess human empathy […]