group members have recently published a blog post with Cell Mentor, and a paper in Trends in Ecology.
Jessica Ford, PhD candidate in the Green Lab of the Redpath Museum has won the Chancellor Gretta Chambers Student Leadership Award in Student Leadership! Read about her story and passion for science in the link below:
Reactive nitrogen emissions contribute to greenhouse gases, as well as air and water pollution. For the first time, researchers from 鶹AV have calculated Canada’s nitrogen footprint (akin to a carbon footprint) – at both national and provincial levels. They looked at the three primary sectors that contribute nitrogen to the environment to calculate the annual average nitrogen footprint: food production and consumption, wastewater treatment, and fossil fuel use. There were some surprises when they analyzed their results.
is happening across Canada from September 20th to September 26th, and there many activities to participate inright in Montreal. For the seventh consecutive year, 鶹AV Library is planning a .
One of the few species that was found to be resistant to severe glyphosate contamination was Scapholeberis mucronata, a freshwater zooplankter commonly found in Québec and elsewhere in North America. CREDIT: Marie-Pier Hébert
Ever wonder what our curators do? Even though we are closed, they are hard at work ensuring the security of our collections, answering inquiries about them and working on collection management projects.
In the article below, learn more about the CAML project. Definitely a must read!
, 鶹AV’s Climate Change Artist-in-Residence, will curate the Faculty of Science’s Bicentennial Science/Art Exposition, billed as a “celebration of science in all its forms”.
The art show organizers are calling on all members of the 鶹AV community to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2021.
- Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Art Exhibit
- Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Bicentennial
- Dept. of Biochemistry
- Dept. of Biology
- Dept. of Chemistry
- School of Computer Science
- Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
- Dept. of Geography
- Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
- Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
- Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Dept. of Physics
- Dept. of Physiology
- Dept. of Psychology
- Redpath Museum
- Faculty of Science
Researchers from 鶹AV believe that they have found a way to improve the development of biomaterials that could be instrumental in drug delivery, tissue regeneration, nano-optics and nanoelectronics.
Science writer and masters student Ada McVean explains CRISPR for kids in a TikTokas part of an internship with 鶹AV's Office of Science Outreach for the NSERC PROMOTE program! Ada is currently doing her masters in theat 鶹AV making anti-CRISPR oligonucleotides.
Jeffrey McKenzie, Chair of 鶹AV's Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). In its citation, the GSA noted:
By Catherine Wang
Will classes be in-person? How do labs work? How will I make friends? How do I keep up with so many courses? These are some of the questions that students have as they prepare for their first year at 鶹AV. On June 11, 2021, the Office of Science Education’s Incoming Students Panel brought together professors, current studentsand staff to respond to these questions and give around 300 incoming students a sneak peek of the school year to come.
Researchers at 鶹AV have shown that a brain cell structure previously thought to be pathological in fact enhances cells’ ability to transmit information and correlates with better learning on certain tasks.
In a study published in Nature Communications, the team investigated swellings that occur in the axons of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. In results that contradict established expectations, they found that axons with swellings did a better job of conducting electrical signals than those without.
The launched on June 30th, 2021, and 鶹AV Outreach is participating!L'Archipel Virtuel is the firstdigital edition of the festival.
The 2021 Principal's Prize for Public Engagement through Media winners and runners-upwere named in April, including Faculty of Science outreach group BrainReach.
鶹AV's science outreach groups celebrated 鶹AV's Bicentennial with an all day event that drew in over 200 participants to 16 activities and talks.