An article published this month by 91亚色 researcher Sheila Dumesh describes 21 new kinds of bees, pushing the world鈥檚 total known bee species past the 20,000 mark. The article, 鈥淩evision of the rare Mesoamerican bee genus Mexalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) with the description of 21 new species鈥, published in the journal Zootaxa, identifies the bees […]
More than 200 local high school science students visited 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus this fall to attend a lecture delivered聽by two award-winning scientists as part of the Gairdner Foundation High School Outreach Program. Accompanied by their teachers, the students listened to two leading scientists聽discuss their research,聽potential discoveries and why they chose a career in science. This […]
Top medical researcher Dr. Michael Rosbash will draw on his research to deliver the 2012 Canada Gairdner Lecture at 91亚色 looking at circadian rhythms. His talk, Circadian rhythms: Molecules, Neurons and Circuits, will take place Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 1:30 to 2:30pm, in the Senate chamber, Ross N920, Keele campus, as part of Gairdner鈥檚 National […]
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded 91亚色 $592,631 in infrastructure funding to support the research of four 91亚色 professors. Ali Kazimi,聽professor in Department of Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts,聽will receive $143,186 in funding for industry standard infrastructure of a Stereoscopic 3D Lab @ 91亚色. The funding will聽allow Kazimi to augment […]
The achievements of two 91亚色 professors have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), which has inducted them as Fellows. Carl E. James, professor, in the Faculty of Education and Director, 91亚色 Centre for Education & Community, and Norman Yan, professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and a core […]
Professor Robert Tsushima will take on the role of Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships in the Faculty of Science & Engineering for a three-year term, effective Aug. 1. Tsushima, professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Biology, holds a Career Investigator Award from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario. His research program investigates the molecular and […]
A new study by 91亚色 researchers finds that songbirds follow a strict annual schedule when migrating to their breeding grounds 鈥 with some birds departing on precisely the same date each year. The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, is the first to track the migration routes and timing of individual songbirds over […]
91亚色 Professors Natasha Myers and Thilo Womelsdorf have been awarded $100,000 each in funding under the Ontario government鈥檚 Early Researcher Awards program. 聽 Ontario鈥檚 Ministry of Economic Development聽& Innovation announced the awards Monday. 聽91亚色鈥檚 research investment of $50,000 will match the funds for the award. The Early Researcher Awards program helps promising, recently appointed […]
Bees may miss pollinating entire species of plants if climate change continues unchecked, according to a study released yesterday by a group of academic and museum collaborators including a 91亚色 researcher. The study, led by Rutgers University, finds that bees are emerging earlier each spring, advancing their life cycle by nearly a day per […]
91亚色 Professor Georg Zoidl has been appointed聽Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.聽 Zoidl, a professor at 91亚色 since July 1 in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, and the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science & Engineering, and a member of 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Vision Research, is examining the functions of […]
91亚色 bee researcher Clement Kent has been awarded the Pollinator Advocate Award for Canada 鈥 not for his work in the lab, but his efforts in the garden.聽 Kent, president of the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto, founded the Pollinator Garden Project two years ago to teach gardeners, members of the public and […]
Celebrate the birds and the bees tomorrow at the Pollinators Festival. Learn why the bees are at risk with 91亚色 Professor Laurence Packer in the Department of Biology and about the social life of honey bees with the Toronto Beekeeping Co-operative. The Pollinators Festival, part of International Pollinator Week, will take place from 8am to […]
Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality […]
The Three-spot Mariposa Lily is an understated three-petalled white and yellow flower indigenous to some areas of the Columbia Basin. Like all living things, it鈥檚 part of the intricate and complex web of life that sustains us all, wrote B.C.鈥檚 Revelstoke Times Review, April 12: Recent research by biologist Lincoln Best, [a graduate student] at […]
A 91亚色 biology student has won the award for top Physiology & Toxicology Oral Presentation at the 24th annual Ontario Biology Day (OBD) held聽at Wilfrid Laurier University in March. Olimpia Del Duca, studying under 91亚色 biology Professor Andrew Donini, presented her paper, 鈥淐arbonic Anhydrase in the Anal Papillae of the Larval Mosquito, Aedes aegypti鈥, to […]
If you're a patient at Southlake Regional Health Centre, there's now a better chance you'll be part of a research project, wrote the Newmarket Era March 16; the story also appeared on 91亚色Region.com: A partnership between the local hospital and 91亚色 will embed leading scientists from the postsecondary institution as researchers to work alongside […]
New research and teaching facility scheduled to open Fall 2011 Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent paid an informal visit to 91亚色's Keele campus yesterday to view first-hand the results of the government's聽investment in聽Canada's current and future聽scientists and researchers. Above: From left, Environment Minister Peter Kent, senior project superintendent Chris Robinson and 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor […]
A new research initiative involving a partnership between 91亚色 and Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket will see聽feature leading scientists from the University serving as embedded researchers at the hospital. 91亚色 Professors Chris Ardern, Imogen Coe, Paul Ritvo and Lauren Sergio will work on site聽for one to聽two days a week with hospital clinicians to […]
A delegation of researchers from 91亚色's Faculty of Science & Engineering will begin a nine-day mission to India today to establish partnerships and collaborations with the country's researchers. The group will visit聽seven top-tier universities and research institutes during their trip. Along the way they will stop at聽the India Institute of Technology's聽facilities in聽Mumbai (Bombay) and Madras, […]
Professor Laurence Packer in the Faculty of Science & Engineering's Department of Biology spoke to Global News February 12 about the sudden death of the Royal Ontario Museum's bee colony. Over 20,000 bees died in a 48-hour period. You can watch the segment on the Global News website. Packer is a bee expert who has […]