UBC Animal Welfare Program

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 th...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/10/25/welcoming-visiting-phd-student-sara-dusel/

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 Welf...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/10/11/meet-the-new-faces-of-the-awp-of-fall-2024/

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 we...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/07/29/david-fraser-and-ian-duncan-celebrate-the-50th-anniversary-of-writing-the-first-text-book-chapter-on-farm-animal-welfare/

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 Welf...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/07/26/dr-marina-von-keyserlingk-has-been-recognized-with-the-2024-isae-creativity-award/

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...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/07/01/dr-alexandra-sasha-protopopova-promoted-to-associate-professor-at-the-awp/

Last year, we celebrated our 25th anniversary! Within those 25 years, we have published 828 journal articles, studied 26 different species, and supervised over 500 students. Over time, the AWP h...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/05/07/reflecting-on-awp25-launching-our-storymap-and-podcast/

AWP alumni Dr. Michael W Brunt conducted his PhD research on understanding the social license to use animals for scientific experimentation and the influence of institutional transparency. Knowle...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/04/12/research-into-action-ccac-transparency-in-animal-based-science/

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 Welf...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2024/01/18/mariann-molnar-has-been-awarded-the-fellowship-award-by-tiny-beam-fund/

Dr. Tiago Moreira has joined the Animal Welfare Program for the past four months, from September to December, as a visiting scientist. Visiting scientists contribute to the exchange of ideas thro...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2023/12/19/welcoming-visiting-scientist-tiago-moreira/

Maya Bodnar – Maya is a new MSc student focusing on laboratory mouse welfare who completed a BSc in Applied Animal Biology. After graduation, she continued her research with an NSERC Undergrad...

https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2023/12/04/meet-the-new-and-familiar-faces-of-the-awp-of-fall-2023/