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"The discussion started at my book club, but it might as well have started with Adam and Eve. We read The Awakening, a听1899 novel by Kate Chopin that describes the fight by a young woman, Edna Pontellier, for independence against the conventions of the time. We are all married working mothers. No matter how far society has come from Edna鈥檚, most of us find the bulk of child care and the more banal duties of running a household fall to us. We felt for Edna.

Classified as: Macdonald Campus, elena bennett, women in science
Published on: 17 Feb 2016

Professor Elena Bennett, of the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the 69热视频 School of Environment, is the recipient of a ! The Fellowships are awarded by NSERC to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising university faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for original research.

Classified as: Macdonald Campus, elena bennett, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences, NSERC EWR Steacie Fellowship
Published on: 16 Feb 2016

"It doesn't mean there's no life on Mars, but what it does mean is it's going to be harder to find," said Jacqueline Goordial, the 69热视频 researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.

Classified as: Mars, Antarctic, Arctic, lyle whyte, Life on Mars, Jacqueline Goordial
Published on: 25 Jan 2016

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.

Classified as: NASA, Mars, Antarctic, Arctic, lyle whyte, science and technology, microbial life, permafrost soil, Phoenix landing site, ecosystem
Published on: 19 Jan 2016

By Katherine Gombay,听69热视频 Newsroom

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Classified as: NASA, Mars, Antarctic, Arctic, lyle whyte, science and technology, microbial life, permafrost soil, Phoenix landing site, ecosystem
Published on: 19 Jan 2016

The results of a recent experiment at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron in Saskatoon could be a key piece in the quest to discover if there was ever life on Mars.

Lyle Whyte, an environmental microbiologist at 69热视频 who is originally from Saskatchewan, specializes in organisms that can survive in extreme cold.

Classified as: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, lyle whyte, Life on Mars
Published on: 21 Dec 2015

Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed.

Classified as: news, Research, spiders, Animal behaviour, evolutionary ecology, Christopher Buddle, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences
Published on: 6 Aug 2015

Even jumping spiders have personalities scientists have discovered. A "shy" individual will not make the same choices as a "bold" individual. This means that some individuals, because of their personality type, will capture more prey than others, and will therefore have a larger effect on local ecosystems.

Classified as: news, Research, spiders, Animal behaviour, evolutionary ecology, Christopher Buddle, Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences
Published on: 6 Aug 2015

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