Recipharm, a Swedish pharmaceutical development and manufacturing firm, has announced that its 2017 International Environmental Award will be presented to Karen Kidd, McMaster’s Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health, and Professor in Biology, and Geography & Earth Sciences. Dr. Kidd is being recognised for her field biology experiments that have revealed the impacts of human […]
Biology’s Dr. Graham Scott is raising some red flags about the impact of contaminants in the Cootes Paradise watershed in a McMaster University study. Story Here
–When: FRIDAY Dec. 8, 10AM-2PM –Location: Biology Greenhouse (between Hamilton Hall & Refectory) –Cost: Make a donation to the greenhouse & take away a plant! –Optional January pickup for your plant(s) See our extensive plant collection!
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Stephanie Jones, a Vanier Scholar and senior Ph.D. student in Dr. Marie Elliot’s lab in the Department of Biology, has just been awarded the top ‘Graduate Research Prize’ by the ‘Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs’ (CCUBC). This award is given in recognition of publishing the best and most innovative refereed journal article (based on […]
Congratulations to Taru Vasanthan, PhD student in Dr. Jon Stone’s lab, who was chosen as valedictorian for the Faculties of Engineering and Sciences’ Fall Convocation Ceremony on Friday, November 17th at 9:30 a.m. at the FirstOntario Concert Hall (formerly called Hamilton Place).
Application due date for Bio 3EP3, 3IR3 and MB 3I03 extended to next Friday Nov 10
Join us Wednesday Sept 27 @ 630pm for the Level II Welcome Night! It’s a great opportunity to meet with the Professors. Pizza will be served.
Sarah Marzec has won the 2nd Biennial Meeting Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Conference Link Here Poster Link Here
The study involves an obscure little rodent living in the deserts of Argentina. Though obscure, the rat is unique in the world. It seems to be the only mammal that has undergone a huge genome expansion resulting in a larger genome than humans, much, much larger in fact. Ben Evans (PhD) is the lead author of […]
