The Phoenix is dead and this time it won鈥檛 rise again. On May 24, NASA released photos of the Mars Phoenix lander that finally ended even the faintest hope that the 91亚色-designed weather instruments on board the spacecraft would come to life again. The photos show that the lander鈥檚 solar panels appear to have collapsed […]
Leading researchers from across southern Ontario will converge on 91亚色 on Friday to discuss the role that muscle plays in metabolism, heart health, aging and disease. The first annual Muscle Health Awareness Day, organized by 91亚色鈥檚聽 Muscle Health Research Centre, will bring together the latest findings on the contribution made by heart muscle and […]
91亚色 researchers have played a key role in a new finding that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in our universe. The DZero collaboration of scientists at the United States聽Department of Energy鈥檚 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) submitted a finding to the journal Physical Review D, reporting significant differences between matter […]
Bridget Stutchbury, author of Silence of the Songbirds, recently stopped in Fredericton to warn that the bird population is dwindling, reported the Fredericton Telegraph-Journal May 20. A Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at 91亚色, Stutchbury says the Canadian bird population has been declining by one to two per cent a year […]
At 77 years of age, Elizabeth Pitt is heading back to school and she couldn't be happier. A grandmother of a 91亚色 fine arts student, Pitt is a member of the 91亚色 Circle, a legacy initiative of 91亚色鈥檚 50th anniversary. The 91亚色 Circle is an ongoing program that offers curious people like Pitt […]
Paul Delaney, senior lecturer and director of the Division of Natural Science in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke to CTV News May 14 about the space shuttle's current mission to the international space station. Crews are conducting space walks, loading equipment and bringing back experiments that have been running on the space station's […]
The morning serenades of nature in New Brunswick have quieted down over the years and a declining songbird population is to blame, according to a conservation biologist, wrote the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal May 14: 鈥淏oth at the provincial level, and even at the national level, you have dozens of species of songbirds that are in […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on The National by CBC broadcaster Colleen Jones about the sex lives of birds May 12. Stutchbury, a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology, published The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds in April 2010. It explains how […]
Newfoundland and Labrador鈥檚 natural resources minister is rejecting calls for the overhaul of the agency that regulates the province鈥檚 offshore oil industry, even as the United States moves to distance its regulator from the companies it oversees, wrote The Globe and Mail May 12: Scientists and environmentalists argue that the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum […]
In a May 8 review of Professor Bridget Stutchbury's new non-fiction book,聽 The Bird Detective, The Globe & Mail compared it to Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood. Stutchbury is a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering: In […]
On May 6, the Science in Action bus brought 30 high-school students from the 91亚色 Region District School Board (YRDSB) to聽the University as part of a tour created to showcase聽the many opportunities that await these聽future scientists and entrepreneurs. YORKbiotech, along with the Regional Municipality of 91亚色, the Town of Markham and聽YRDSB organized the tour to […]
Like an archeologist of the universe, 91亚色 physics聽& astronomy Professor Patrick Hall in the Faculty of Science & Engineering studies quasars already dead for billions of years by the time their light reaches the lens of a telescope here on Earth. Hall鈥檚 quest is to uncover the nature of quasar winds and what impact they […]
91亚色 researchers who designed and built a miniature space-borne pollution monitor are part of a team of Canadians being honoured with a 2010 Alouette Award from the Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institute (CASI). The annual prize, one of the top accolades for the advancement of space technology in Canada, was awarded Tuesday to the […]
A carnival atmosphere will prevail as 91亚色 researchers take science to Main Street Markham's Farmers' Market聽as part of the third annual Science Rendezvous聽May 8. 91亚色 Science Rendezvous buskers聽and researchers will share the wonder of science on the street and at booths Saturday at the聽season opening聽of the food, arts and crafts market in聽Markham's downtown from聽10am to […]
From the works of James Cameron to Werner Herzog, 3D films have become a cinematic trend of epic proportions. On the crest of this wave of stereoscopy, 91亚色 officially launched the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a $1.4-million academic-industry partnership to build capacity for stereoscopic 3D (S3D)聽film production in the Greater Toronto Area and […]
91亚色鈥檚 Steacie Science & Engineering Library will today celebrate the launch of PubMed Central (PMC) Canada,聽a new Canadian partner in an international network providing free or open access to health research. Faculty and graduate students are invited to find out how 91亚色 Libraries can help make their research available to the world through PMC […]
Could screening high-risk populations for pre-diabetes and setting them up with culturally preferred fitness regimes prevent聽people from developing Type 2 diabetes and the secondary complications of heart and kidney disease, blindness and stroke? That鈥檚 what several 91亚色 researchers are hoping to find out. If successful, their Pre-Diabetes Detection and Physical Activity Intervention Delivery (PRE-PAID) Program […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks on May 1 about her new book, The Bird Detective. Her interview with Bob McDonald is available for download on CBC's Web site. In The Bird Detective, Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social lives of birds, and details the […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury is back in the media talking about her book, The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds. The Calgary Herald interviewed her April 30 about her research, daily routine and thoughts on climate change: Figuring out bird habits are all in a day's work for Stutchbury. Montreal-born, Toronto-raised, she is an […]
Paul Delaney, senior lecturer and director of the Division of Natural Science in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke to CTV News about the Hubble telescope's 20th anniversary and its impact on science. You can watch Delaney's full interview on CTV's Web site, which runs for approximately six minutes. Here's an excerpt: The Hubble […]