Ecosystem Science and Management Professor Dr. Russ Dawson received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant for $200,000 to look at how avian parents allocate resources to maximize lifetime reproductive output, and how environmental constraints influence these strategies.

Ecosystem Science and Management Assistant Professor Dr. Heather Bryan received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant worth $152,500 to study how changes to the environment affect the interplay between parasites and their hosts.

The NSERC/Rio Tinto Industrial Research Chair on Climate Change and Water Security partnership is one year old. Led by Environmental Science Professor Dr. Stephen Déry, the project aims to better understand how climate change and human activity are impacting water security in the watershed, which stretches from the Coast mountains to the Nechako River’s mouth in Prince George where it flows into the Fraser River.

Dr. Nadezhda (Nadia) Mamontova received a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research into Glafira Vasilevich's mapmaking project with the Evenki people in Siberia. Working with UNBC Geography Professor Dr. Gail Fondahl, Mamontova is exploring the methods Vasilevich used to collect the maps, examining her motivations and tracing the legacy of the place names she used.

Environmental Science Professor Dr. Peter Jackson is the newest Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Fellow

Anthropology Professor Dr. Michel Bouchard along with two co-authors won the Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for their book Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais. The prize is awarded annually to a French-language book that makes an exceptional contribution to scholarship, is engagingly written, and enriches the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.

Louisa Hadley first found it difficult to explain her master's degree research at UNBC to her friends and family. When she entered the 2020 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Storytelling Competition, which included a video submission, it helped her better understand the significance of her research around climate change.

A lot has changed at UNBC since former Vice-President Research Dr. Max Blouw left in 2007, but the current Research Universities' Council of British Columbia President says one thing that has remained the same is the commitment that UNBC has demonstrated to the region it serves.