By Sam Lee

Sam Lee completed his Bachelors (in Genetics) at UBC, jumped ship to the university across town (the one up on a hill) for his Masters (to study worm genetics), and is now back at UBC for his PhD (to study mouse genetics). He hopes you don't use his big hair to stereotype him as a mad scientist because he's the farthest thing from one. He very much digs science outreach, and is currently one of four coordinators running the UBC Let's Talk Science Partnership Program.

BC YOUTHS RECEIVE RICH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TALKS ON EARTH DAY WEEKEND (PLUS A GLIMPSE INTO TRIUMF’S SATURDAY MORNING LECTURE SERIES).

(This piece is about Earth Day last year – and to also note that this year’s Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd) – – – It promised to be a great weekend. Earth Day was just around the corner. And ready for that occasion, the TRIUMF research facility on south campus was set to deliver a special version of its monthly Saturday Morning Talks, an outreach initiative spearheaded by the UBC Graduate Student Society and aimed at high school and layman audiences. The topic was to be hydrogen fuel cells. Although the occasional mention of fuel cells might…