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By Christina Kozakiewicz, Ingram School of Nursing

The Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN) is pleased to announce a major partnership grant involving the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ­­­­­(SSHRC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and additional partners’ joint investment of over $2 million in a groundbreaking research project entitled Transforming Nurses’ Work Environments Through a Strength-Based Leadership and Management Training Program, led by ISoN Professor Laurie Gottlieb, RN, PhD.

Classified as: Ingram School of Nursing, Research
Published on: 26 Sep 2018

As an entrepreneurial geologist, Bob Wares, (BSc’79, DSc’12), became a mining rock star when he discovered one of Canada’s largest gold deposits in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Now, he is bringing that Midas touch to his alma mater in the form of a landmark $5-million gift that will support research programs, fellowships, innovative research, a lecture series and outreach efforts in Թ’s Faculty of Science, with a particular focus on his home department, Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS).

Classified as: Faculty of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bob Wares, geology, mining
Published on: 26 Sep 2018

On September 26, Heads of State will gather in New York at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) to accelerate efforts to end TB and reach all affected people with prevention and care.

Classified as: tuberculosis, TB, Madhukar Pai, Թ International TB Centre, Ada Kwan, india, health and lifestyle
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Published on: 25 Sep 2018

Plant sex relies on a combination of prodding and a lot of communication and guidance suggests a study published in the September 2018 issue ofTechnology. Read more: /newsroom/article/sex-plants-requires-thrust

Classified as: science, Research, plant science
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Published on: 24 Sep 2018

Assistant Professor Barry Eidlin was named the winner of the 2018 Early Investigator Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. It is awarded annually to a sociologist who is deemed to "have made significant research contributions in the early stages of their career.” In announcing the award, the CSA Research Advisory Subcommittee noted that it was"tremendously impressed with Dr. Eidlin’s research and publication record at this early stage of his career. His diverse accomplishments and intellectual leadership stood out as particularly stellar.

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Published on: 24 Sep 2018

Թ alumni and long-time Athletics benefactorsSheryl Kerr(BCom'67) andDavid Kerr(BSc'65) are chalking up another important "assist" for Team Թ with a $3.5-million gift to create the Kerr Family Women in Sport program. This "WIS" initiative aims to advance the role of women as athletes, coaches and decision-makers by increasing the number of full-time female coaches and helping female athletes become future leaders.

Classified as: Athletics, donation, Martlets
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Published on: 20 Sep 2018

The 4th Industrial Revolution topped the agenda at The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions as leaders met to shape the impact and use of sci & tech on geopolitical, economic & social agendas. Թ Principal Suzanne Fortier co-chaired the Meeting which took place in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

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Published on: 20 Sep 2018

Թ today announces it will co-develop with Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSXV: XBC) a prototype reactor to produce Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) using the Power-to-Gas (P2G) process which combines electricity generated by renewable sources and CO2 generated from waste. The project is being partially funded by a Collaborative Research and Development grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The value of the grant is $360,000 for a period of three years.

Classified as: food and sustainability
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Published on: 20 Sep 2018

You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone’s dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a nonchalant manner, while the other uses a loud, confident voice but speaks with a strong accent. Who are you going to trust?

Classified as: Research, school of communication sciences and disorders, faculty of medicine, society and culture
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Published on: 19 Sep 2018

Plasticity is enhanced but dysregulated in the aging brain

They say you can’t teach old dogs new tricks, but new research shows you can teach an old rat new sounds, even if the lesson doesn’t stick very long.

Classified as: brain plasticity, Mike Cisneros-Franco, Étienne de Villers-Sidani, GABA, gamma-Aminobutyric acid, neuroplasticity, Etienne De Villers-Sidan
Published on: 19 Sep 2018

A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe.

Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at Թ, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, successfully ran the largest computer simulations ever conducted of neutron star crusts, becoming the first to describe how these break.

Classified as: Nuclear pasta, neutron stars, gravitational waves, Matthew Caplan, science and technology
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Published on: 18 Sep 2018

Scientists at the Research Institute of the Թ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have identified new means of fighting drug-tolerant bacteria, a growing global threat as menacing as drug-resistant microbes. Little is known about the mechanisms leading to tolerance, a strategy that makes bacteria “indifferent” to antibiotics and almost “un-killable,” which results in chronic infections extremely difficult to treat and cure.

Classified as: drug-tolerant bacteria, P. aeruginosa, Թ Health Center, Dao Nguyen, health and lifestyle
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Published on: 13 Sep 2018

Today, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced the induction of 89 new Fellows, five of which are Թ researchers and scholars. The RSC also announced 52 new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, including six Թ scholars. The new cohorts of Fellows and Members will be formally inducted into the RSC in November, in Halifax.

Classified as: royal society of canada
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Published on: 11 Sep 2018

A forthcoming study of over a hundred new cities being built around the world suggests developers and planning authorities are doing very little to make their projects resilient to climate change. On the contrary, a boom in new city projects in coastal areas – including some on reclaimed land in the sea – appears to fly in the face of the danger of rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events.

Published on: 10 Sep 2018

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