December 4, 2017
An article about Dominique Weis and the PCIGR was published in today’s issue of the Globe and Mail newspaper. The article is called “Curiosity Counts in the World of Science.”
Click here to read the article.
September 2017
Researchers Matthijs A. Smit (PCIGR, UBC EOAS) and Klaus Mezger (Universität Bern, Switzerland) have discovered a possible link between the long-term evolution of Earth’s crust and the emergence of Earth’s oxygen cycle 3.0 billion years ago. Their findings have been published in Nature Geoscience.
read moreSeptember 8, 2017
PCIGR was pleased to host the Canadian Minister of National Defence, Harjit Sajjan, for a tour of our nUBC facility.
The Minister was on campus on behalf of the Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan, to announce more than $42 million in funding to support fundamental research at UBC through the NSERC 2017 competition for the Discovery Grants program, scholarships, and fellowships. CFI and BC-KDF grants supported the construction of the PCIGR laboratory facilities and a recent NSERC RTI grant contributes to its ongoing operations.
read moreAugust 2017
Dr. Roger Francois has been elected as one of the Fellows members of the American Geophysical Union. All 2017 new Fellows will be honored at the upcoming 2017 Fall Meeting in New Orleans.
Congratulations, Roger!!
July 15, 2017
Dominique was invited for an interview with Radio-Canada (French CBC). The interview aired today and is titled “Quelle qualité pour le miel urbain?“
The full-length audio of the interview is available here.