New gems add luster to geoscience outreach

摘要

Officially unveiled in December 2013, the massive WR Danner mineral, gem and meteorite collection is now on display at UBC. Containing more than 2,000 individual pieces -including hundreds of gold specimens, diamond crystals, gems, meteorites and tektites from around the world - the collection is named for the late Wilbert Danner, a well-known geology professor and penologist. Danner began teaching at UBC in 1954, and UBC alumni fondly remember Danner combing UBC's beaches for bottles and cans he could recycle, the proceeds of which - nearly $30,000 - funded two geological scholarships.