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Sixty per cent of roughly 1,600 Canadians who took part in a new study from 鶹ýվ's School of Human Nutrition say their lifestyle habits either stayed the same or improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the flip side, 40% of participants say they adopted less healthy lifestyle habits, including worsened eating habits, sleep quality, decreased physical activity and weight gain.

Classified as: Stéphanie Chevalier, School of Human Nutrition
Published on: 28 Jun 2023

Professor Ryan Mailloux has been appointed Director of the School of Human Nutrition (SHN) effective from June 1, 2023, for a five-year term.

Dr. Mailloux earned his Ph.D. in Biomolecular Sciences from Laurentian University in 2007. He joined 鶹ýվ in 2019, previously serving as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Classified as: School of Human Nutrition, Dietetics & Human Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit
Published on: 6 Jun 2023

“There are lots of opportunities to contribute to society,” says Vijaya Raghavan. “If I can share that point with students, I think it can go a long way.”

Classified as: Convocation, Vijaya Raghavan
Published on: 6 Jun 2023

Ronholm was among three highly accomplished early career researchers who received a significant 鶹ýվ distinction: The Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers.

Classified as: Convocation, Jennifer Ronholm
Published on: 5 Jun 2023

鶹ýվ’s valedictorians are outstanding students whose strong academic performance, leadership and community involvement has earned the respect of their peers. This year’s cohort is remarkable for its diversity, each having vastly different backgrounds, experiences, passions and goals.

What they do share is ambition, curiosity, and a desire to have a positive impact on the world.

Classified as: Convocation, valedictorian
Published on: 31 May 2023

鶹ýվ’s valedictorians are outstanding students whose strong academic performance, leadership and community involvement has earned the respect of their peers. This year’s cohort is remarkable for its diversity, each having vastly different backgrounds, experiences, passions and goals.

What they do share is ambition, curiosity, and a desire to have a positive impact on the world.

Classified as: Convocation, valedictorian
Published on: 29 May 2023

The most abundant animals on farms—and everywhere on land, in fact—are microscopic worms called nematodes. Some kinds benefit the soil, but others parasitize crops, inflicting more than $100 billion in losses worldwide each year. Although pesticides can get rid of harmful nematodes, they inflict collateral damage on other life.

Published on: 26 May 2023

Around the world, food is grown on land of all sizes and all types, but that diversity means farmers often fail to take into account landscape complexity and soil variability, according to Chandra A. Madramootoo, a professor of Bioresource Engineering at 鶹ýվ, in Montreal, Canada.

He says that one solution is precision farming, an approach that “enables the selection of crops, and chemical and water applications within spatially similar land and soil zones.”

Classified as: Chandra Madramootoo
Published on: 26 May 2023

Five offices across disciplines and campuses embrace sustainability at work and beyond through the Sustainable Workplace Certification program

What motivates sustainable change?

Classified as: Sustainability, Sustainable Workplace, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Desautels Career Management Centre, Macdonald Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Financial Services
Published on: 17 May 2023

A team led by two recent 鶹ýվ bioengineering graduates, Alexander Becker and Cynthia Hitti, has made it through to the final phase of the with their system for rearing crickets as a food source for long-haul space voyages.

Classified as: Mark Lefsrud, deep space food challenge
Published on: 3 May 2023

Congratulations to two Macdonald Profs who have received funding through the New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration stream, which supports high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research: Hamid Akbarzadeh (BRE) for Origami-inspired deployable sensoriactuator soft robots and Mehran Dastmalchi (PltSci) for Plant-derived biosynergists to enhance pesticide efficacy.

Classified as: New Frontiers in Research Fund, Mehran Dastmalchi, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi
Published on: 27 Apr 2023

Research published in Ecology took a closer look into the candy-striped spider’s diet and behaviour and found that these spiders use a variety of tactics to take down prey much larger than themselves, including sleeping bees and wasps.

Classified as: Catherine Scott
Published on: 27 Apr 2023

A research team led by William Dawson Scholar and Assistant Professor Jen Ronholm (AnSci/FdSci) has received $1.65 million for an NSERC CREATE in One Health Against Pathogens (OHAP). Ten co-applicants from 鶹ýվ, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Guelph, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal will collaborate.

Classified as: Jennifer Ronholm
Published on: 20 Apr 2023

Genome Canada has invested nearly $8 million in two 鶹ýվ projects as part of a total national investment of $18.1 million in genomics-based research. Through public-private partnerships, these investments will help accelerate the commercialization of genomics and increase its real-world applications.

Classified as: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Nil Basu
Published on: 20 Apr 2023

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