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Media opportunity: Â鶹´«Ã½ researcher wins top prize for paper on her innovative research showing that reversing insulin resistance improves psychiatric outcomes in treatment‑resistant bipolar disorder
Communications and Marketing  –  News
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Â鶹´«Ã½ physician Dr. Cindy Calkin is being honoured with a top psychiatry award for research that discovered a new way to address treatment-resistant bipolar disorder – by reversing insulin resistance
Media opportunity: In one of school's first clinical trials, the Faculty of Dentistry at Â鶹´«Ã½ to study whether drug used to treat diabetes could prevent common oral cancer
Communications and Marketing  –  News
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Researchers at Â鶹´«Ã½ are conducting one of the Faculty of Dentistry's first clinical trials to determine whether a drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes could be effective in preventing oral cancer.
Media Release: Â鶹´«Ã½ student awarded prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship
Media Release: Â鶹´«Ã½ student awarded prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship
Communications, Marketing & Creative  –  News
Friday, May 12, 2023
Â鶹´«Ã½ congratulates Aaron Judah on being awarded a 3M National Student Fellowship. The award, which is presented annually by the Society for Teaching and Learning in High Education (SLTHE), celebrates post-secondary students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and educational vision.
Media opportunity: New plastic recycling plant produces a vast amount of microplastics that splinter, seep into water sources and drift through the air: research study
Communications and Marketing  –  News
Thursday, May 11, 2023
New research out of Â鶹´«Ã½ and Scotland's University of Strathclyde has found that even a state-of-the-art recycling facility releases millions of microplastic particles per cubic meter of wash water.
Media opportunity: Lucrative fishing grounds littered with ‘ghost gear' that continues to trap vulnerable species, while degrading habitats and eating into fisheries’ profits: Â鶹´«Ã½ research
Communications and Marketing  –  News
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Researchers have found an area off Nova Scotia's southern tip is littered with bundles of snarled rope, drifting lobster pots and abandoned buoys that foul the marine environment and take a bite out of the fishing industry's bottom line.
Media Release ‑ First‑of‑its‑kind ocean science and discovery centre to open at Â鶹´«Ã½ thanks to $8.2 million gift
Communications, Marketing & Creative  –  News
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Â鶹´«Ã½ is pleased to announce the development of the new Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity in honour of entrepreneur and conservationist Mr. Ross Beaty and his family.
Media opportunity: Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers find that female ticks carrying Lyme disease are better able to withstand winter's frigid temperatures, raising the possibility of an accelerated population increase in summer
Communications and Marketing  –  News
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
New research out of Â鶹´«Ã½ shows that female Ixodes scapularis ticks -- more commonly known as deer ticks -- infected with the pathogen that causes Lyme disease are more likely to survive the winter than uninfected female ticks.
Media release: Â鶹´«Ã½ bioethicist and scholar Françoise Baylis honoured with prestigious Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize
Communications and Marketing  –  News
Monday, May 8, 2023
Â鶹´«Ã½ bioethicist and scholar, Françoise Baylis, has been named a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, given only to two people every year for their significant contributions to the country's intellectual and cultural heritage.