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Dans l’édifice qui accueillait autrefois la brasserie Dow, angle Peel et Notre-Dame, rebaptisé Carrefour d’innovation INGO, est installé un groupe de recherche qui se consacre au développement des carburants de l’avenir. BioFuelNet regroupe 75 chercheurs de 27 universités canadiennes et travaille avec 90 partenaires industriels. Sa mission : développer une industrie de biocarburants avancés prospère et durable. ...

Classified as: BioFuelNet, biofuels, Don Smith
Published on: 22 Mar 2016

Professor Lyle White, Natural Resource Sciences, is interviewed on his role in Mars exploration and the Exomars Space Probe.

Classified as: Exomars Space Probe, lyle whyte, Mars, Mars exploration, polar microbial life
Published on: 22 Mar 2016

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. Two projects have been awarded to Macdonald professors.

Classified as: Colombia, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, global food security, Hugo Melgar-Quinonez, india, Macdonald Campus, millet, potatoes, Vijaya Raghavan
Published on: 8 Mar 2016

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. Two projects have been awarded to Macdonald professors.

Classified as: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus, global food security, india, Hugo Melgar-Quinonez, Vijaya Raghavan, potatoes, millet, Colombia
Published on: 8 Mar 2016

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 McGill. Il enseigne aussi le marketing alimentaire.

Classified as: food wastage, gaspillage alimentaire, Pascal Thériault
Published on: 24 Feb 2016

"The discussion started at my book club, but it might as well have started with Adam and Eve. We read The Awakening, a1899 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.

Classified as: elena bennett, Macdonald Campus, women in science
Published on: 17 Feb 2016

Professor Elena Bennett, of the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the McGill School of Environment, is the recipient of a ! The Fellowships are awarded by NSERC to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising university faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for original research.

Classified as: Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences, elena bennett, Macdonald Campus, NSERC EWR Steacie Fellowship
Published on: 16 Feb 2016

McGill Centre for Research in Reproduction 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.

Classified as: animal science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Sarah Kimmins
Published on: 16 Feb 2016

« Le système a permis d’assurer une stabilité dans les prix. Les producteurs savent combien ils vont recevoir pour leur sirop », estime Pascal Thériault, professeur à la faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’environnement de l’Université McGill. Il y a actuellement 62 millions de livres de sirop dans le principal entrepôt, situé à Laurierville. « La réserve stratégique mondiale permettrait de couvrir une mauvaise saison », précise l’économiste Pascal Thériault.

Classified as: Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus, Maple syprup
Published on: 16 Feb 2016

Worried about Zika? CTV Montreal talked to the Morgan Arboretum's Christopher Cloutier, mosquito expert from 㽶Ƶ.

Classified as: Chris Cloutier, Macdonald Campus, Moragn Arboretum, mosquitoes
Published on: 16 Feb 2016

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?”

Classified as: Entrepreneurial Leadership Seminar Series
Published on: 3 Feb 2016

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.

Classified as: Lumberjacks, Lumberjills, Macdonald Campus, Woodsmen, Woodsmen competition
Published on: 26 Jan 2016

"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 㽶Ƶ researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.

Classified as: Antarctic, Arctic, Jacqueline Goordial, Life on Mars, lyle whyte, Mars
Published on: 25 Jan 2016

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.

Classified as: Antarctic, Arctic, ecosystem, lyle whyte, Mars, microbial life, NASA, permafrost soil, Phoenix landing site, science and technology
Published on: 19 Jan 2016

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