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PhD Candidate Elizabeth Russell earned the Graduate Student Service Award

PhD Candidate Elizabeth Russell earned the Graduate Student Service Award

Congratulations Elizabeth Russell for earning the Graduate Student Service Award! Elizabeth is a PhD candidate at the AWP. Elizabeth’s responsibilities have grown since she’s been in LFS and she’s supported the AWP on several committees. My leadership journey began during my master’s program (2019-2021) and has continued well into my Ph.D. studies. As Chair of […]

Welcoming Visiting PhD Student Sara Dusel  

Welcoming Visiting PhD Student Sara Dusel  

Sara Dusel recently joined the Animal Welfare Program for the month of September, as a visiting international research student. Visiting students contribute to the exchange of ideas throughout the program, conducting their own research work while also engaging in activities with students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty during their time. Learn about Sara’s research interests and […]

Meet the new faces of the AWP of Fall 2024!

Meet the new faces of the AWP of Fall 2024!

Oceania Kreutzer is an Indigenous student who previously completed a BSc. in the Honour’s Applied Animal Biology program at UBC. She is now a part of the companion animal lab in the Animal Welfare Program and her research will be focused on the behaviour of feral rabbits living in urban environments and in colonial housing. […]

David Fraser and Ian Duncan celebrate the 50th anniversary of writing the first text-book chapter on farm animal welfare

David Fraser and Ian Duncan celebrate the 50th anniversary of writing the first text-book chapter on farm animal welfare

A 50-year milestone in animal welfare This summer David Fraser and Ian Duncan celebrated the remarkable milestone of the 50th anniversary of writing the first text-book chapter on farm animal welfare. The chapter was published in the 1975 edition of The Behaviour of Domestic Animals.  David and Ian worked alongside David Wood-Gush (1922–1992), a pioneering figure in […]

Dr Marina von Keyserlingk has been recognized with the 2024 ISAE Creativity Award

Dr Marina von Keyserlingk has been recognized with the 2024 ISAE Creativity Award

Earlier this summer the 57th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) took place in Curitiba, Brazil from July 22nd to July 26th 2024. Many members of the UBC Animal Welfare Program (AWP) attended the event.  Dr Marina (Nina) von Keyserlingk, AWP Professor, was recognized with the 2024 ISAE Creativity Award. This award […]

Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Protopopova promoted to Associate Professor at the AWP 

Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Protopopova promoted to Associate Professor at the AWP 

Congratulations to Dr. Sasha Protopopova, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor at the Animal Welfare Program. Since joining the AWP in 2019, she has developed a novel line of research that aims to learn more about dogs and improve companion animal welfare. In 2022, Dr. Protopopova opened the new Human-Animal Interaction Lab, the first […]

Mariann Molnár has been awarded the Fellowship Award by Tiny Beam Fund

Mariann Molnár has been awarded the Fellowship Award by Tiny Beam Fund

AWP Adjunct professor Mariann Molnár recently launched a new project funded by the Fellowship Award programme of the Tiny Beam Fund’s Burning Questions Initiative. Mariann Molnár, Animal Welfare Program Adjunct Professor, will be focussing on assessing how animal production technologies used in intensive, large-scale operations influence farm animal welfare conditions. She will be using a […]