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 […]
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The United Nations General Assembly declares February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Women and girls continue to lead innovation and produce ground-breaking research around the world, despite being underrepresented in science and research. We are very fortunate to have so many #womeninscience as part of the Applied Animal Biology program […]
Dr. Anne-Marieke Smid Alumni Profile
Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta What brought you to the Animal Welfare Program I conducted my Master’s thesis in collaboration with AWP as a Masters student at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. I really enjoyed working in this group and in the UBC farm environment, so it was the perfect […]
Dr. Katy Proudfoot Alumni Profile
Associate Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island and Director of the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island What was your experience in the Animal Welfare Program? I graduated from the Animal Welfare Program with my MSc in 2008 and PhD in 2013 with a […]
Dr. Beth Ventura Alumni Profile
Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA What brought you to the Animal Welfare Program? I was first attracted to the Animal Welfare Program because of its world-class reputation as a leader in animal welfare science and because of the chance to work with outstanding scientists in this field. […]
Sophie Neveux, agr. Alumni Profile
Animal Welfare and Milk Quality Advisor at Agropur in Saint-Hubert, Quebec What brought you to the Animal Welfare Program?I had the opportunity to work on dairy farms prior to completing my B.Sc. and realized that dairy producers need the input from various professionals. It is a team effort. In addition, many of the improvements that […]
Individual differences in rat sensitivity to carbon dioxide
Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Lucia Amendola, PhD student Anna Ratuski, and Dr. Dan Weary have recently published an article in PloS One on the individual differences in rat sensitivity to CO2. While CO2 is commonly used for rodent euthanasia, this gas elicits negative emotions in rats, but the negative experience is different between individuals. Authors found […]