Dr. Brenda Milner promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada
On July 29, 2004, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, announced 79 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Dr. Brenda Milner was promoted to a Companion, the highest honour within the Order and one of only two Companions named in this announcement. There can only be 165 living Companions at any given time.... ...Dr. Milner is the Dorothy J. Killa...Canada, US launch collaborative research programs for circulatory and respiratory health
The leading federal health research agencies in Canada and the United States -- the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- have formed a partnership to advance research of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. ... ...Three research programs are being launched collaboratively between CIHR's Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (...UK biotechnology business plan competition now open to students in the US and Canada
What: The UK-based competition is now open to students in the US and Canada to help strengthen the transatlantic bonds between the countries and provide students and researchers who have no business background an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and commercialization.... ...Who: The British Council, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the UK and the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sci...Conservation actions could be more efficient if there is similarity among taxa in the distribution of species. In a paper in Ecology Letters, May, by an international research team, patterns in the geographic distribution of five taxa were used to identify nationally important regions for conservation in Canada. There was congruence in both geographic distribution of taxa and a measure of the con...Earliest evidence of humans affecting aquatic ecology in Canada, United States
(Kingston, ON) New findings from Canadian scientists dispel the belief that European settlers were the first humans to cause major changes to Canadian and U.S. freshwater ecosystems. ......A University of Toronto-led, multidisciplinary team including researchers from Queen's, McGill, and University of Ottawa show for the first time that prehistoric Inuit whalers dramatically altered high Arctic...Scientist at Robarts Research Institute among Canada's Top 20
LONDON, Ont. Robarts Research Institute scientist Dr. Ravi Menon has been named one of Canadas Top 20 researchers aged 40 and under....... A panel of six judges from the United States and Britain selected Menon from nearly 300 science and engineering candidates for the Young Explorers Prize, awarded by The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)....... Menon, 38, is a biophysicist who d...HHMI awards $16.25 million to biomedical researchers from Canada and Latin America
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that it has awarded $16.25 million in new grants to 43 outstanding biomedical researchers in Canada and five Latin American countries. ...... The five-year grants support the research of scientists in fields such as genetics, epidemiology, virology and neuroscience. These scientists are investigating a wide variety of biomedical topics, includ...Canada's social safety net missing the hungry
.The 1994 national Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth included questions about whether children had experienced hunger. After reviewing the data, Dr. Lynn McIntyre and colleagues report that of the more than 13,000 households surveyed, 1.2% reported going hungry because of lack of money for food. When extrapolated to the overall Canadian population, this figure represents 57 000 Canadian.... . . Big, green, bug-eyed aliens with huge appetites are invading southern Vancouver Island.. . You can see -- and hear -- the invasion happening in several lakes and ponds around Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo and Parksville this summer. The intruder is the American bullfrog, and its distinctive bwum, bwum, bwum bass serenade is signalling big trouble for the Island's native frog species and aq....The Howard Hughes Medical Institute.(HHMI) will award $16.25 million in new grants to support the research of.biomedical scientists in Canada and five Latin American countries --.Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela.. .The five-year initiative will support the research of outstanding scientists.in fields such as genetics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, virology and.neuroscience. The gr....A European beetle that arrived in North America in the ballasts of ships will.likely spread throughout Canada and present a major threat to the lumber and.Christmas tree industries, says a University of Toronto researcher.. .A three-year study headed by Professor Sandra Smith of forestry found that the.Introduced Pine Shoot Beetle, first sighted in Ontario in 1993, has few natural.enemies here...