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Wilson was born in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Science in 1994 in Biology and Pharmacology at McMaster University and her Masters of Science in 1997 in Biology at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, under the supervision of Richard Addison and B.W. Glickman.
Victoria Megan Arbour is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and vertebrate palaeontologist at Royal BC Museum, where she is Curator of Palaeontology.An "expert on the armoured dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs", [1] Arbour analyzes fossils and creates 3-D computer models.
Armour founded the Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science and Technology (WISEST) program, and served as the first and only Associate Dean of Science for Diversity at the University of Alberta. Among her many honors, she was named a member of the Order of Canada (2006), a 3M Teaching Fellow (1996) and a Canada 150 ambassador (2017).
The most recent acknowledgement of the SCWIST value was done by Status of Women Canada. This grant funded a launch of an online mentorship network in 2014. [17] This program (named makepossible) was developed to attract, retain and advance women in science and technology. [18] [19] [20] Immigrating Women in Science program (IWIS) started in ...
Liette Vasseur (born 29 April 1963, in Laval, Quebec) is a Canadian biologist who has held the UNESCO Chair in Community Sustainability: From Local to Global in the Department of Biological Sciences since 2014 (renewed in 2018) at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Myers has served on various NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) committees, particularly those related to women in science including the Women's Faculty Award Committee and the Women in Science and Engineering Chair Program. She was a member of the NSERC Biological Control Network and was Theme leader ...
Suzanne Simard is an advocate of science communication. At the University of British Columbia she initiated with colleagues Dr. Julia Dordel and Dr. Maja Krzic the Communication of Science Program TerreWEB, [ 19 ] which has been training graduate students to become better communicators of their research since 2011.
Before being appointed to the Senate, Dyck was a neuroscientist with the University of Saskatchewan, where she was also associate dean.On March 12, 1999, Dyck, who is of Cree and Chinese heritage and was one of the first Aboriginal women in Canada to pursue an academic career in the sciences, was presented with a lifetime achievement award by Indspire.