Reading Time: 3 minutesAnoxia no longer suspected to be main cause of extinction According to many scientists, our species is currently entering the sixth mass extinction — the one that we alone have caused. University of Ottawa professor André Desrochers re-examined the cause of the first major mass extinction (late Ordovician mass extinction) to hopefully gain insight into …
Reading Time: 4 minutesA crash course on urban planning The birth of Ontario suburbs began post World War Two; as many soldiers returned, the demand for housing increased exponentially. At the turn of the century, about two-thirds of Canadians lived in rural areas. However, by 1971, two out of every three people lived in towns or cities. Toronto …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe system has become so adept at finding these scam addresses that over 70 per cent of these addresses are flagged before a single victim can send any money.
Reading Time: 2 minutesInstead of comparing yourself to gold, celebrate your silvers because you did it.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We really wanted to address a grassroots problem and from our experience, and myself interacting with physicians and residents in primary care, it came to our attention that the unattached patient is really a big issue in our community.” Said Maddie Venables.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The ratios of the sterols told us that there were two periods of increased fruit eating relative to insect eating” said U of O PhD student Lauren Gallant.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ability to see the development of the zebra fish’s nervous system under the microscope has provided an amazing advantage over other animal models of the spinal cord.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn short, pseudoscience is presented like science, but lacks the same rigour that science undergoes. As a result, it makes the two extremely difficult to discern.
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I had a project where I was working in northern Canada. Those areas had beautiful northern lights, where the green and red colours filled the entire sky,” said the U of O researcher in an interview.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Perfectionism is a maladaptive personality trait: it’s associated with anxiety and depression, and other things like academic burnout,” said U of O professor Tracy Vaillancourt.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStarr mainly studies plant systematics, which is the science that names, discovers and determines evolutionary relationships of organisms
Reading Time: 3 minutesScientists are getting up on their soapboxes, but this time it’s to promote the amazing work being done by women in STEM
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I think most engineering students who graduate from school realize that it doesn’t give you any sort of practical experience. It doesn’t set you up well for any design experience at all, which is why internships and clubs like this exist.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesHis main areas of study include spatial variation in the abundance of ectotherm populations, the evolutionary maintenance of polymorphisms, and applied conservation work
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I hope to accomplish creating a new generation of scientists that will be able to go out into the world and be successful and effective members of society in their role as scientists”
Reading Time: 4 minutes“In the long term the reconstruction of the mammoth’s movements can help scientists better understand extinction,” said U of O professor Clement Bataille
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Planetary health is this realization that, for you and me to be healthy, for humanity to be healthy, it depends on a healthy planet as well.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Isotope mapping is more productive than trying to put a radio transmitter on a butterfly, but gathering milkweed samples from 22 states isn’t easy either.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We had really great enthusiasm as a team, and as stressful as it was and how little sleep we got, we still made it really fun and I think that was contagious.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a summer littered with forest fires, air quality advisories, and heat warnings, climate change has everyone on the hot seat
Reading Time: 2 minutesHooman Chamani states “I was introduced to the concept of water and wastewater treatment from an early age, and seeing irrigation problems for farmers in my city drove me to work in this field”
Reading Time: 2 minutesTogether, two U of O STEM students have started a club whose focus is mainly on machine learning and AI, which are major subtopics within data science.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDepartment is looking for teams and individuals to submit original ideas on how to redefine and modernize patients’ experience for the clinic of the future.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood science communication about the pandemic “gives people a reason to be hopeful while also being cautious,” said Cassidy Swanston, the creator of SciComm School Podcast.
Reading Time: 3 minutes “[We are] a very unique team — there isn’t any other team like it. Being able to design something that’s supposed to go on another planet,” said Cameron Paul, the co-captain of the University of Ottawa’s Mars Rover Team.
