Awards | Nov 12, 2025
Solving-FCB Co-principal investigators Dr. William Cheung and Dr. Rashid Sumaila have once again been named on Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. This prestigious annual list acknowledges researchers whose work ranks in the top 1% by citations in their respective fields over the past 11 years, signifying their significant global influence.
Information | Aug 15, 2025
! A $6,550 prize has been made available through an endowment established by Dr. Rashid Sumaila upon being named the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate, for a Master’s or Ph.D. student whose peer-reviewed publications to date are expected to have the most significant impact on the field of environmental sustainability.
Awards | Oct 4, 2024
The A.G. Huntsman Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2024 A.G. Huntsman Medal will be awarded to Solving-FCB Director Dr. William Cheung in recognition of his outstanding achievements in research focused on climate change, biodiversity and ocean sustainability as well as his efforts to connect marine sciences to the social sciences. Dr. Cheung’s work recognizes the interdependence of ocean systems and human systems and that the scale of climate change impacts range from local to global, as do the needs for solutions.
Awards | Jul 22, 2024
! Congratulations to Solving-FCB Director Dr. William Cheung who has been awarded the UBC Alumni Achievements Award for Research and Innovation.
News | Mar 15, 2024
Congratulations to Solving-FCB MSc student Aleah Wong, who has made it to the final round of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 2024 Storytellers Challenge.
Awards | Feb 2, 2024
The following news item is a selectively-edited translation of this article by L’Institut Agro. If there are any issues with the translation, please contact d.burnside@oceans.ubc.ca.
Media Coverage | Jan 3, 2024
! Solving-FCB co-director Dr. Rashid Sumaila has been named one of the most influential Africans in 2023 by the premier magazine New African. This comes after an award-heavy year including winning the Tyler Prize alongside Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Prince Albert I Medal.
Internationally renowned fisheries researcher, Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila, has been recognized by the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco with the 2023 Albert I Grand Medal in the Science category.
Awards | Jan 31, 2023
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Announcements | Oct 17, 2022
Dr. Rashid Sumaila, Solving-FCB Scientific Director and University Killam professor in UBC Science’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, as well as the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in the Faculty of Arts, has won the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)’s Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for scientific work relating to environmental problems.
