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BioFuelNet conçoit les biocarburants de l’avenir

Dans l’édifice qui accueillait autrefois la brasserie Dow, angle Peel et Notre-Dame, rebaptisé Carrefour d’innovation INGO, est installé un groupe de recherche qui se consacre au développement des carburants de l’avenir. BioFuelNet regroupe 75 chercheurs de 27 universités canadiennes et travaille avec 90 partenaires industriels. Sa mission : développer une industrie de biocarburants avancés prospère et durable. ...

Published: 22 Mar 2016

EXOMARS OUTBOUND IN SEARCH FOR LIFE SIGNS

Professor Lyle White, Natural Resource Sciences, is interviewed on his role in Mars exploration and the Exomars Space Probe.

Listen to the interview

Published: 22 Mar 2016

Two New Food Security Projects Announced

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global Affairs Canada have announced six new projects to be supported under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF). The projects will develop, test and apply ways to scale up innovations in food security and nutrition. These projects will scale up effective, pilot-tested innovations so that they reach poor rural populations, particularly women and small-holder farmers.

Published: 8 Mar 2016

Pour contrer le gaspillage alimentaire

On estime que la moitié de ce que l'on produit comme aliments dans les pays industrialisés serait gaspillée. Au Canada, on jetterait, selon Statistique Canada, 183 kilogrammes de nourriture par an, par personne. À qui la faute? À l'industrie alimentaire, ou au consommateur? Pour en discuter, nous recevons Pascal Thériault, agroéconomiste et professeur à l'Université ƬƵ. Il enseigne aussi le marketing alimentaire.

Published: 24 Feb 2016

The lack of women in science: 'A wicked problem,' ƬƵ's Elena Bennett says

"The discussion started at my book club, but it might as well have started with Adam and Eve. We read The Awakening, a1899 novel by Kate Chopin that describes the fight by a young woman, Edna Pontellier, for independence against the conventions of the time. We are all married working mothers. No matter how far society has come from Edna’s, most of us find the bulk of child care and the more banal duties of running a household fall to us. We felt for Edna.

Published: 17 Feb 2016

Hot off the press! Macdonald Professor Recipient of Prestigious Steacie Fellowship

Professor Elena Bennett, of the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the ƬƵ School of Environment, is the recipient of a E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship!

Published: 16 Feb 2016

Dr. Sarah Kimmins recipient of 2016 SSR Young Investigator Award

ƬƵ Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development (CRRD) Associate Director Dr. Sarah Kimmins (Animal Science Department) is recipient of the 2016 SSR Young Investigator Award.

This award recognizes an active Regular Member of the Society for outstanding research completed and published within 12 years after receiving the Ph.D. or other equivalent professional degree.

Published: 16 Feb 2016

Mosquitoes: What Works, What is Used.

Worried about Zika? CTV Montreal talked to the Morgan Arboretum's Christopher Cloutier, mosquito expert from ƬƵ

CTV News video

Published: 16 Feb 2016

Rolling whole grains into chewy business success

Businesses start in many ways, and Andrea Courey didn’t know that she was going to have a business of her own. In 1997, Andrea lost her job and was raising three children as a single mother. In the face of this adversity Andrea asked herself how she was going to provide for her family – what was she “good at and what did she know how to do?”

Published: 3 Feb 2016

Mac women chop down the competition at the 56th annual Macdonald College Woodsmen Competition

The sun was out, the saws were out and our Woodsmen teams performed fabulously over the weekend. Thanks to all on campus and the many alumni who helped make the 56th annual Woodsmen Competition a success.

Published: 26 Jan 2016

Antarctic permafrost may not be habitable for microbes – So is Mars?

"It doesn't mean there's no life on Mars, but what it does mean is it's going to be harder to find," said Jacqueline Goordial, the ƬƵ University researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.

Published: 25 Jan 2016

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.

Published: 19 Jan 2016

A New Geological Epoch, The Anthropocene

Scientists say it's time to declare a new geological epoch, one defined by human activity and the permanent mark it has left on the earth.

ƬƵ Professor Peter Brown, director of Economics for the Anthropocene, is featured on CBC Radio News.

Published: 11 Jan 2016

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