Titans Library Learning Commons

ALT Over a tan background, title reads: Indigenous Women in Science / Dr. Nadine Caron. Text reads: Dr. Caron is the first Indigenous woman to graduate from UBC's medical school at the top of her class and Canada's first female First Nations general surgeon. She was born in Kamloops, BC, completed her BSc in Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in 1993, and completed her MD at the UBC Faculty of Medicine. She also completed an MA in Public Health at Harvard University. She works as a general endocrine surgeon and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. There is a photograph of Dr. Nadine Caron who is wearing glasses and earrings and smiling at the camera.

ALT Over a tan background, title reads: Indigenous Women in Science / Dr. Chelsea Benally. Text reads: Chelsea Benally is the first Indigenous woman to graduate with PhD in engineering from the University of Alberta. She focused on oil sands remediation earlier in her career. "I knew about some of the issues involving oil sands tailings ponds and First Nation communities, I also knew that there weren't a lot of Indigenous people who were engineers, not as many as there should be." She is now doing a post-doctoral fellowship analyzing the mud under tailings pond water, and wants to continue working in water and remediation while helping to increase First Nations participation in engineering. There is a photograph of Dr. Chelsea Benally who is wearing a lab coat and glasses.

ALT Over a tan background, title reads: Indigenous Women in Science / Shyra Barberstock. Text reads: Before she pursued post-secondary education, Shyra Barberstock worked a series of jobs she didn’t enjoy. On the advice of friends and by several strokes of luck, she landed a job teaching computer software—skills that she had taught herself—and it was through this role that she learned she likes working in tech. In 2014, she launched Okwaho Network, an Indigenous inspired social network that connects Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples to the greater global Indigenous community. In its first week, the network went global, with users signing up from New Zealand, the United States and Australia. There is a photograph of Shyra Barberstock who is wearing a blue shirt and smiling at the camera.

ALT Over a tan background, title reads: Indigenous Women in Science / Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck. Text reads: The Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck is a former Canadian senator from Saskatchewan. A member of the Cree George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, and a first generation Chinese Canadian, she is the first female First Nations senator and first Canadian-born senator of Chinese descent. Before being appointed to the Senate, she was a neuroscientist with the University of Saskatchewan, earning her Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Master of Science Degrees in Biochemistry in 1968 and 1970, respectively, and obtaining a Ph.D. in Biological Psychiatry in 1981. There is a photograph of Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck who is wearing a red blouse over a white shirt with beaded earrings.