Two 91亚色 researchers have been named recipients of the 2016 President鈥檚 Research Excellence Awards.聽Distinguished Research Professor Bridget Stutchbury, Faculty of Science, has been selected as the recipient of the President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award. Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Faculty of Health, and 91亚色 Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health, has been named recipient of the […]
From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
Bridget Stutchbury, author of Silence of the Songbirds and The Bird Detective, speaks about how her Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology has changed and broadened her research agenda: Stutchbury is one of 91亚色's 28 Canada Research Chairs. The program celebrates its 10th anniversary November 24 and 25 at the Metro Toronto […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury spoke about the danger posed by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to migrating birds on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淢etro Morning,鈥 and other local programs across Canada, July 9. The clip is available on Metro Morning's website and runs under 5:30 minutes. Stutchbury is the Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and […]
After an eight-year absence, North America鈥檚 largest swallow has returned to High Park, wrote the Toronto Star June 7. An excerpt of the complete article follows: Two pairs of purple martins, known for the purple-black feathers of mature males, are cohabiting in a colony house on the south edge of Grenadier Pond. The birds are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
91亚色 Professor and Canada Research Chair Bridget Stutchbury is attracting international media attention with her new book, The Bird Detective. ABC News Online, the National Post, the Daily Mail Online and Maclean's.ca published articles discussing her book on April 13. Reuters wrote: It鈥檚 not all love in the avian world, where divorce, child abandonment and […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury,聽 a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, has studied migratory songbirds like the hooded warbler, purple martin, scarlet tanager and wood thrush. On April 9, the Stratford Beacon-Herald reported on a talk she is scheduled […]
Why do birds divorce? What makes them cheat on their spouses? Why might couples favour one offspring over another? A new book by a 91亚色 professor delves into these and other aspects of the secret lives of birds. In The Bird Detective, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social […]
Have you ever wanted to have dinner with a scientist? Ask questions about Canada鈥檚 laser radar on NASA's 2007 Phoenix mission to Mars, the role of human genomes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the consequences of dwindling fossil fuels or perhaps how biochemical pathways affect obesity? The Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the […]
Last summer, a number of 91亚色 undergraduates won the chance to spend their 16-week break doing research and getting paid for it. Funded by national grants, they worked with 91亚色 biology and chemistry professors on projects ranging from how wood thrushes care for their young to how to reduce carbon dioxide聽in the atmosphere. They were […]