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Pour contrer le gaspillage alimentaire

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On estime que la moitié de ce que l'on produit comme aliments dans les pays industrialisés serait gaspillée. Au Canada, on jetterait, selon Statistique Canada, 183 kilogrammes de nourriture par an, par personne. À qui la faute? À l'industrie alimentaire, ou au consommateur? Pour en discuter, nous recevons Pascal Thériault, agroéconomiste et professeur à l'Université Âé¶¹Éç. Il enseigne aussi le marketing alimentaire.Ìý

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Published: 24 Feb 2016

The lack of women in science: 'A wicked problem,' Âé¶¹Éç'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, aÌý1899 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’s, 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.

Published: 17 Feb 2016

Hot off the press! Macdonald Professor Recipient of Prestigious Steacie Fellowship

Professor Elena Bennett, of the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the Âé¶¹Éç School of Environment, is the recipient of a E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship!

Published: 16 Feb 2016

Dr. Sarah Kimmins recipient of 2016 SSR Young Investigator Award

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Âé¶¹Éç Centre for Research in ReproductionÌý 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.

Published: 16 Feb 2016

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 Âé¶¹Éç.

CTV News video

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Published: 16 Feb 2016

Rolling whole grains into chewy business success

Businesses start in many ways, and Andrea Courey didn’t 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 – what was she “good at and what did she know how to do?â€

Published: 3 Feb 2016

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.

Published: 26 Jan 2016

Antarctic permafrost may not be habitable for microbes – 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 Âé¶¹Éç researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.

Published: 25 Jan 2016

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Natural 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.

Published: 19 Jan 2016

A New Geological Epoch, The Anthropocene

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Scientists say it's time to declare a new geological epoch, one defined by human activity and the permanent mark it has left on the earth.

Âé¶¹Éç Professor Peter Brown, director of Economics for the Anthropocene, is featured on CBC Radio News.

Published: 11 Jan 2016

Refining the Search for Life on Mars

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The results of a recent experiment at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron in Saskatoon could be a key piece in the quest to discover if there was ever life on Mars.

Lyle Whyte, an environmental microbiologist at Âé¶¹Éç who is originally from Saskatchewan, specializes in organisms that can survive in extreme cold.

Published: 21 Dec 2015

Cooking up the Future

Maple syrup that’s good for you? A frozen dessert that you can store at room temperature? A falafel-type mix made with insects? Salwa Karboune and her students are dreaming up tomorrow’s foods today.

Published: 16 Dec 2015

Researchers Turn Fish Waste Into A Coffee-Scented Biofuel

Before that beautiful salmon filet lands on your plate, a lot of less appetizing stuff gets stripped away: By one estimate, the global seafood industry produces 64 million metric tons of waste each year. A new study suggests a potentially sweeter fate for all those heads and guts: They can be turned into a coal-like substance called hydrochar, which could be used as fuel or added to soil to improve fertility and sequester carbon (Energy Fuels 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b01671).

Published: 16 Dec 2015

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