News & Stories

Amoeba in the Room

Thursday, October 3, 2013, 7:00 p.m.Nicholas Money, Miami UniversityThe flowering of microbial science is revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined just a few years ago and is inspiring a new view of what it means to be human.

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History of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum

How The Beaty Came to Be The Beaty Biodiversity Museum opened its doors in 2010 and UBC’s vast natural history collections were put on public display for the first time. The museum and its collections are the centrepiece of UBC’s Biodiversity Research

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Biodiversity Lecture Series

In partnership with the Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC), the Beaty Biodiversity Museum presents an ongoing series of lectures exploring our understandings of biodiversity. As humans we appreciate biodiversity from diverse points of view. As scientis

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Vision & Mission

Vision A world where biodiversity is better understood, valued, and protected. Mission The Beaty Biodiversity Museum strives to inspire an understanding of biodiversity, its origins, and importance to humans through collections-based research, educatio

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BioBlitz: A Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt

What is a BioBlitz? A BioBlitz is a 24-hour period where teams of volunteer scientists along with community members work together to find and identify as many species of plants, animals, microbes, fungi and other organisms as possible in one particular

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Biodiversity Research

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is part of UBC’s Beaty Biodiversity Centre, which brings the University of British Columbia’s world-class biodiversity researchers and natural history collections together into an innovative building complex. The Biodivers

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