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At this summer’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Saskatoon, the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine awarded its Segall Prize for the best graduate student presentation to UVic history PhD candidate Judith Friedman for her paper “The Rediscovery of Anticipation in Hereditary Medicine.”
David Gardner, an MSc candidate working with Dr. Stephen Johnston (earth and ocean sciences), has received a monetary award from Vancouver-based Geoscience BC, an industry-led organization that provides funding for projects with a potential benefit for mineral or oil and gas exploration. Gardner’s research is focused on orogens, or mountain-building processes. Gardner has received a scholarship worth $5,000 to further explore the sedimentology and stratigraphy of a specific region in southeastern British Columbia.
Dr. Steve Perlman (biology) has been awarded a five-year, $25,000/year Scholar Award from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Perlman is a new member of CIFAR’s Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, a national team of microbial biologists, statisticians, geneticists, immunologists, earth scientists and botanists exploring the vast universe of bacteria, viruses and other microbes. Perlman studies microbes that infect insects and other invertebrates. He’ll use the award to help fund a postdoctoral student for his laboratory.
At a special convocation held for him in Alba Iulia in Romania in August, Dr. Hari M. Srivastava (professor emeritus, mathematics and statistics) was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia.
This year’s Faculty of Science Teaching and Research Excellence Awards were handed out at a ceremony on Sept. 7. Co-winners of the teaching award are: Barbara Currie (biochemistry and microbiology), the principal lab instructor in charge of the department’s core course, Microbiology 200; and Dr. Tom Fyles (chemistry), an organic chemist and former department chair who has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses. The research award goes to Dr. Alisdair Boraston (biochemistry and biology) who has built an international reputation in the study of carbohydrate-protein interactions. Boraston is the Canada Research Chair in Molecular Interactions and has published more than 40 papers since 2000. Basic research in his field is vital to understanding how we might manipulate biological processes to our benefit.
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