2022 Winter Contours

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¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ researcher Peggy St. Jacques' research into memory has been recognized with a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.

Your memory maker

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 16 December 2022
A deer, pictured in a small clearing. ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ biologist Colleen Cassidy St. Clair shares advice for how to appreciate wildlife from afar.

Urban guide to animal etiquette

  • Lewis Kelly
  • 16 December 2022
Alison Crisctiello, director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.

Peak study

  • Mifi Purvis
  • 16 December 2022
A beaver sits in a stream. ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ researchers are investigating how Chronic Wasting Disease spreads through ecosystems via other animals, including beavers.

CWD: Not just an ungulate problem

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 16 December 2022
A collection of fossils wrapped in newspaper more than 100 years old.

Lost and found (again)

  • Michael Brown
  • 16 December 2022
Post-doctoral researcher Nilusha Welegedara found that Edmonton has “urban heat islands†with significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas in both summer and winter. (Photo: Matt Photo Videography)

Cities feel the heat

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 16 December 2022
The Robird's AI-powered drone design resembles a predatory bird, a design aimed to help deter birds from industrial sites.

AI-powered drone protects birds

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 16 December 2022
An Bui, '22 BSc(Hons), was a contributor to Connections: Bringing Neuroscience and Art Together, with this piece of artwork.

A beautiful mind

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 16 December 2022
¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ computing scientist and AI ethics expert Nidhi Hegde, photographed in her lab.

The ghost in the machine (is unfair)

  • Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
  • 16 December 2022
An illustration by Anja Javelona depicts scientists creating new things from building blocks of science.

Solutions are built on basic science

  • Christina Frangou
  • 16 December 2022
An illustration by Mariella Villalobos depicts ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥Sat satellites in orbit around the Earth.

This is ground control

  • Lewis Kelly
  • 16 December 2022
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