Arts and Science

Arts and Science

[Art of Research photo Leaving Home depicting a cancer blue]
Transforming low survival cancer outcomes

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s researchers are among five teams receiving $29 million from the Canadian Cancer Society to jumpstart innovative research and radically change the outcomes for six of the most common and deadly cancers.

April 13, 2023
[Group photo of researchers and judges of the 3MT competition]
Timely presentations of graduate research

The Three Minute Thesis competition offers »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s graduate students a unique opportunity to present their research… in 180 seconds or less.

April 12, 2023
Gathering at a scientific field station for a Water Ceremony led by the Women’s Council of Grand Council Treaty #3. (IISD-Experimental Lakes Area), Author provided
Weaving Indigenous and Western ways of knowing can help Canada achieve its biodiversity goals

Canada’s commitment to halt biodiversity loss can only be realized by weaving together Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge.

April 6, 2023
The 12-metre diameter acrylic SNO+ detector is filled with 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator and surrounded by 10,000 photomultiplier light detectors. [Credit: Dr. Alex Wright for the SNO+ Collaboration, »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý's Art of Research]
Next chapters on neutrino science

For the first time, SNO+ experiment captures neutrinos produced in nuclear reactors hundreds of kilometres away using pure water.

April 5, 2023
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s remembers Professor Emeritus Eric Moore

Dr. Moore was a long-time member of the Department of Geography and served as associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies (1993-2001).

March 31, 2023
The Tragically Hip
Music and political campaigns: A question of rights

There is a distinction between deliberate use of a song to support a particular political campaign, and incidental music in the background at a social function hosted by a political party.  

March 24, 2023
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Annual Ewan Lecture features internationally recognized expert in mysterious cosmic phenomena

On Thursday March 23, 2023, from 7:00-8:30 PM, award-winning researcher and astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi will visit »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s to present the next installment of the Ewan Memorial Lecture. 

March 15, 2023
J.A.W. Gunn
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s community remembers Professor Emeritus J.A.W. Gunn

LIVES LIVED: Alumnus taught at »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s for more than 40 years and served as head of Political Studies from 1975 to 1983

March 15, 2023
[Photo of University Ave on »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý's University Campus]
Health research programs secure federal funding

Ten successful »Ê¹ÚÌåÓý’s research applicants will receive a total of $6.48 million.

March 6, 2023
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓý's PhD student interviews tomato farmer in Tanzania
The perilous journey from farm to table

PhD researcher Evodius Rutta travelled parts of Tanzania to find out why delicate crops are spoiling before making it to market.

February 28, 2023