UBC researcher among this year’s winners of NSERC’s top science and engineering awards

On Tuesday the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada handed out 18 awards in five prize categories. Diane Srivastava, who works in the zoology department at UBC, won the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship and a grant worth $250,000 for her work exploring the impact species have on their ecosystem.

Her findings will shed significant light on the delicate balance between animals and their environments, and the far-reaching impacts of extinction.

Excerpted from article by Tiffany Crawford, Vancouver Sun – June 4, 2010, p. A7