From family farm to family gift: Mac graduate 鈥榗ultivates鈥 experiential education

Published: 3 September 2021

As a young Macdonald College student, Alton McEwen, BSc(Agr)鈥66, had plenty of opportunities for experiential education during the summer months, working seven days a week on the family dairy farm...

Sustainable Sparks: Klara Winkler on planting the seeds of a good Anthropocene

Published: 15 June 2021

Follow the journey of environmental scientist and 91黑料网 researcher Klara Winkler on the search for bright spots of sustainability at 91黑料网...

Drawing the future of Mac campus

Published: 11 February 2022

As part of 91黑料网鈥檚 Bicentennial year, the 2022 Founder鈥檚 Day--held February 10th-- took on a graphic twist as illustrator Jordana Globerman turned the Macdonald campus community鈥檚 thoughts and...

Green and Gold, and Mac all over

Published: 3 September 2021

Ann Louise Carson BScAgr鈥81 immersed herself in Mac traditions. She鈥檚 now supporting them for the next generation through a legacy gift. Read more in the August 2021 edition of Focus on Macdonald

Dr.Boakye Boatin named an Unsung Hero REACH Awards finalist

Published: 17 October 2019

Dr. Boatin [an Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Parasitology who teaches in the Parasitology graduate program] has played a transformative, frontline role in the field of disease....

SPF provides seed money for fully autonomous, year-round vegetable production system

Published: 9 October 2019

Autonomous Controlled-Environment Chamber is "a growth system with minimal input and maximum crop yield" When the聽Sustainability Projects Fund聽(SPF) was established in 2009, it was an experiment.

Vers des cultures plus r茅sistantes

Published: 21 November 2019

Les conditions m茅t茅orologiques, les grands vents et les parasites peuvent ab卯mer les cultures jusqu鈥櫭 coucher les tiges au sol. On parle alors de la verse des plants. De la reproduction 脿 la...

Greater local earthworm diversity in temperate regions than in the tropics

Published: 31 October 2019

Surprisingly, in any single location, there are typically more earthworms and more earthworm species found in temperate regions than in the tropics, according to a new study in Science. Global...

Climate Change threatens crops, water for billions around the globe

Published: 17 October 2019

Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world鈥檚 poorest people are at risk....

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