By CKPGToday

Dr. Richard Lazenby Selected As Professor Emeritus

May 2, 2018 | 11:45 AM

PRINCE GEORGE – After 23 years of service, research and teaching, Dr. Richard Lazenby will be given the title of Professor Emeritus at UNBC’s Convocation ceremony on May 25th. Before retiring in December of last year, Dr. Lazenby was a professor at UNBC and a long-standing anthropologist in the province.

“This is a great honour conferred by the UNBC Senate and I certainly appreciate the recognition by my peers,” said Dr. Lazenby. “It is the culmination of many years in the life of the academy, of learning, teaching and collaborating with students and colleagues alike.”

He also continues to help shape the Northern Medical Program. Dr. Lazenby was a founding faculty member at UNBC in 1994 with developing the University’s Anthropology department along with the late Dr. Jim McDonald.

He was also admired and well liked by his colleagues and students. “The students appreciated his depth of knowledge and his vast experience,” said Dr. Angele Smith, current Chair of UNBC’s Anthropology department. “They also loved his dark sense of humour and the degree to which he cared for and wanted the best for his students.”

Dr. Lazenby had an impressive resume including his work as a scholar, a forensic anthropologist and a highly-regarded teacher. The focus of his research was identifying the origins of human handedness, a characteristic associated with the lateralization of brain function (left brain and right brain) along with the inception of a language development tool that was used about four million years ago. He worked on more than 200 forensic cases, including two years on the Robert Pickton file in the Lower Mainland. As a professor, Dr. Lazenby covered a broad range of material including Nutritional Anthropology, Race, Racism and Human Biology, and Forensic Anthropology.

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