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Lucia Wang, master鈥檚 student in Pharmacology and Therapeutics at 91黑料网, shares her perspective on the role of equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM education.
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Published on: 22 Feb 2021
Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our own are the most common exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system. Until now, super-Earths were thought to be the rocky cores of mini-Neptunes whose gassy atmospheres were blown away. In a new study published in , astronomers from 91黑料网 show that some of these exoplanets never had gaseous atmospheres to begin with, shedding new light on their mysterious origins.
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Published on: 10 Feb 2021
Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by 91黑料网 and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption. The researchers set out to find out how people rate their subjective well-being in societies where money plays a minimal role, and which are not usually included in global happiness surveys.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2021
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Published on: 3 Feb 2021
For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from 91黑料网 show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse. However, diversity rates plateau with increased competition for survival and space in more diverse microbiomes.
Published on: 3 Feb 2021
Have you been wondering how to increase equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within your 91黑料网 communities? If yes, you may be inspired by reading about an event that one department, Earth and Planetary Sciences, has initiated as a way to open conversations and to learn what it鈥檚 like to be an international graduate student in Canada. Perhaps you鈥檒l even have ideas about activities that would benefit your own department.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2021
The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, according to a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including 91黑料网 Professor Eve Lee.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2021
Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially large ones, to extract the oxygen they need from their environment. Animals require oxygen to generate energy for movement, growth and reproduction.
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Published on: 13 Jan 2021
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- Academic conferences and symposia
- Academic seminars and lectures
- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Faculty of Arts
- Dental medicine and oral health sciences
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Engineering
- International
- Faculty of Law
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Published on: 13 Jan 2021
The Faculty of Science is celebrating 91黑料网鈥檚 200th anniversary with a student art exhibition on the theme of 鈥淪cience!鈥�. 91黑料网 students at all levels and all faculties are invited to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.
Faculty of Science bicentennial committee member, Torsten Bernhard, says the aim of the exhibition is to celebrate science in all its forms.
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- Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Art Exhibit
- Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Dept. of Biochemistry
- Dept. of Biology
- Dept. of Chemistry
- School of Computer Science
- Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
- Dept. of Geography
- Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
- Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
- Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Dept. of Physics
- Dept. of Physiology
- Dept. of Psychology
- Redpath Museum
- Faculty of Science
Published on: 12 Jan 2021
To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It depends on data both about biodiversity and about a range of benefits (e.g. freshwater, climate regulation, recreation) that people get from nature. Surprisingly, despite the size of the country, new mapping suggests that less than 1% of Canada鈥檚 land (0.6% of total area or approximately 56,000 km2) is a hotspot, providing all these benefits in one place.
Published on: 5 Jan 2021
The Living Library: Teaching Strategies from 91黑料网 Classrooms聽is a new initiative from the Office of Science Education to support faculty with planning and delivering courses.
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Published on: 16 Dec 2020
It鈥檚 known that the primary cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs, about 66 million years ago, was a meteorite impact. But the exact mechanisms that linked the meteorite impact to mass extinction remain unclear, though climactic changes are thought to have played a part.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2020
Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of kilometres apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to research published today in . New modelling of ice sheet changes during the most recent glacial cycle by a 91黑料网-led team offers a clearer idea of the mechanisms that drive change than had previously existed and explains newly available geological records.
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Published on: 25 Nov 2020
Vertebrate populations - from birds and fish to antelope - are not, in general, declining. Despite what has previously been thought and said.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2020
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