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Graduate student researching how climate change and its impact on nutrient availability may affect the snowshoe hare

  • Donna McKinnon
  • 12 January 2023
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Awards & Accolades: March 2022

  • News Staff
  • 31 March 2022
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Containment, not eradication, key to managing invasive species in Alberta lake: study

  • Donna McKinnon
  • 03 March 2022

Recent Posts

Meet Clive, Chief Technician in the Laboratory for Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science.

Have You Met... Clive Coy?

  • 27 February 2023
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Fossil offers new evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 12 January 2023
 Juliana Balluffi-Fry prepares to release a hare back into the wild. Balluffi-Fry has been awarded the 2022 Vanier Scholarship funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Graduate student researching how climate change and its impact on nutrient availability may affect the snowshoe hare

  • Donna McKinnon
  • 12 January 2023
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Genome studies uncover a new branch in fungal evolution

  • Michael Brown
  • 23 November 2022
Helicopter flies above dinosaur specimen near Morrin, Alta.

Student-led dinosaur excavation culminates in airlift

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 04 November 2022
Get to know Tobie Smith, who takes on the role of Academic Department Manager of the Department of Biological Sciences.

Celebrating Staff: Meet Tobie Smith

  • Andrew Lyle
  • 04 October 2022
Michael Caldwell, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Innovator Spotlight: Michael Caldwell

  • The Quad Staff
  • 28 September 2022
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Female bighorn sheep with smaller horns are less reproductively fit: study

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 22 September 2022
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How to keep mosquitoes at bay

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 01 September 2022
Liang Li

Funding boost helps keep Alberta at the forefront of glycomics, metabolomics

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 19 August 2022

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