Bancroft Award (Earth sciences 🌍)

The Bancroft Award is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "given for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences that have conspicuously contributed to public understanding and appreciation of the subject". The award was endowed in 1968 to honour her late husband by the wife of Joseph Austin Bancroft,...

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Lovely to hear that three members of the #UBC #Philosophy department will be inducted as Fellows of the #RoyalSocietyOfCanada tomorrow in Calgary:

Alison Wylie (new Fellow in 2021)
Margaret Schabas (new Fellow in 2022)
Kim Brownlee (new Member in 2022 and winner of Kitty Newman Memorial Award)