Province to boost agrifood competitiveness and industrial innovation
|KATHY MACLEAN, COMMUNICATIONS, FACULTY OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES听
There was good news all around for the Quebec agri-food sector in the recent provincial budget.
BioFuelNet con莽oit les biocarburants de l鈥檃venir
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Dans l鈥櫭ヾifice qui accueillait autrefois la brasserie Dow, angle Peel et Notre-Dame, rebaptis茅 Carrefour d鈥檌nnovation INGO, est install茅 un groupe de recherche qui se consacre au d茅veloppement des carburants de l鈥檃venir. BioFuelNet regroupe 75 chercheurs de 27 universit茅s canadiennes et travaille avec 90 partenaires industriels. Sa mission : d茅velopper une industrie de biocarburants avanc茅s prosp猫re et durable. ...
EXOMARS OUTBOUND IN SEARCH FOR LIFE SIGNS
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Professor Lyle White, Natural Resource Sciences, is interviewed on his role in Mars exploration and the Exomars Space Probe.
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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.
Pour contrer le gaspillage alimentaire
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On estime que la moiti茅 de ce que l'on produit comme aliments dans les pays industrialis茅s serait gaspill茅e. Au Canada, on jetterait, selon Statistique Canada, 183 kilogrammes de nourriture par an, par personne. 脌 qui la faute? 脌 l'industrie alimentaire, ou au consommateur? Pour en discuter, nous recevons Pascal Th茅riault, agro茅conomiste et professeur 脿 l'Universit茅 平特五不中. Il enseigne aussi le marketing alimentaire.听
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The lack of women in science: 'A wicked problem,' 平特五不中's Elena Bennett says
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"The discussion started at my book club, but it might as well have started with Adam and Eve. We read The Awakening, a听1899 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鈥檚, 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.
Hot off the press! Macdonald Professor Recipient of Prestigious Steacie Fellowship
Professor Elena Bennett, of the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the 平特五不中 School of Environment, is the recipient of a E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship!
Dr. Sarah Kimmins recipient of 2016 SSR Young Investigator Award
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平特五不中 Centre for Research in Reproduction听 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.
Mosquitoes: What Works, What is Used.
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Worried about Zika? CTV Montreal talked to the Morgan Arboretum's Christopher Cloutier, mosquito expert from 平特五不中.
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Rolling whole grains into chewy business success
Businesses start in many ways, and Andrea Courey didn鈥檛 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 鈥� what was she 鈥済ood at and what did she know how to do?鈥�
Mac women chop down the competition at the 56th annual Macdonald College Woodsmen Competition
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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.
Antarctic permafrost may not be habitable for microbes 鈥� So is Mars?
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"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 平特五不中 researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.
Nearing the limits of life on Earth
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on MarsNatural 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.