Bioresource Engineering professor Michael Ngadi has spent his career trying to help solve some of the world鈥檚 most pervasive food problems. Recently, Ngadi and his research team traveled to remote communities in Bolivia, Laos, Zambia, Malawi and Ethiopia to examine elements of the local diets, assess their nutritional status, and build programs that would introduce nutrient-dense foods into local cuisines.
Category:
Published on: 18 Feb 2021
John R. Ogilvie, BScAgr鈥�54, PhD, FCSBE, FASABE, P.Eng., P.Ag (Dist), 2010 Distinguished Alumni聽 Award recipient, a leader in agricultural and bioresource engineering, died on March 20, 2020 at the age of 90, in Guelph, Ontario.
Category:
Published on: 6 Nov 2020
Simultaneous heatwaves and droughts are becoming increasingly common in western parts of the United聽States, according to a new study led by researchers from 麻豆约拍. Periods of dry and hot weather, which can make wildfires more likely, are becoming larger, more intense, and more frequent because of climate change.
Category:
Published on: 28 Sep 2020
Congratulations to Professor Jan Adamowski (Bioresource Engineering) for receiving a $198,569 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: #CitiSciWater 鈥� Exploring the potential of scalable, user-centric citizen science platforms and tools to co-create actionable knowledge and transform water governance. .
Category:
Published on: 29 Jul 2020
芦聽Il suffit d鈥檌nstaller notre syst猫me au champ et de pousser sur le bouton ON, et le tour est jou茅聽禄, indique Viacheslav Adamchuk, professeur en g茅nie des bioressources 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 麻豆约拍, en parlant du nouvel outil prototype cr茅茅 par son 茅quipe pour mesurer les 茅missions de CO2 provenant du sol. 禄
Category:
Published on: 2 Jul 2020
Alice Cherestes, a senior lecturer at Bioresource Engineering in 麻豆约拍鈥檚 faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Category:
Published on: 12 Jun 2020
20 麻豆约拍 researchers receive funding from SSHRC through Partnership Program Grants, Partnership Development Grants, and Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently unveiled the recipients of its fall 2019 round of Partnership Grants, including two 麻豆约拍-led projects, totalling $5 million. SSHRC also unveiled the recipients of the round鈥檚 Partnership Development Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships, in which 18 麻豆约拍 applicants received over $2 million in funding.
Category:
Published on: 10 Jun 2020
麻豆约拍 Prof. Mark Lefsrud and team awarded a $1.65 million research grant for their program, Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Cannabis Production, Products and Training
An inter-university collaboration led by Dr. Mark Lefsrud, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering, has received a $1.65 million research grant, to be distributed over six years, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada鈥檚 (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program.
Category:
Published on: 2 Jun 2020
Faire pousser des v茅g茅taux sur du b茅ton? C鈥檈st possible, pratique et m锚me tr猫s esth茅tique. Mark Lefsrud et son 茅quipe, les chercheurs Sadie Moland et Intisar Syed Mahood, du D茅partement de g茅nie en bioressources de l鈥橴niversit茅 麻豆约拍, ont d茅velopp茅 un mur v茅g茅tal vertical nouveau genre : tomates, chou fris茅, laitues et 茅pinards poussent, non pas dans la terre, mais dans du b茅ton poreux biocompatible. Ce substrat horticole original n鈥檈st pas encore commercialis茅, mais il fait ses preuves depuis trois ans dans les serres de l鈥檜niversit茅.
Category:
Published on: 8 Jan 2020
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate David Leroux (BRE-Lefsrud) and fellow Cannafish team members, who were awarded the Agricultural Scholarship from Sollio Agriculture at Coop茅rathon 2019 held at Montreal鈥檚 Olympia Theatre. Coop茅rathon 鈥渋s the world鈥檚 largest open innovation challenge that connects citizens, communities, entrepreneurs, researchers, academics and large institutions to develop, together, a socially responsible future.鈥�
Category:
Published on: 21 Nov 2019
On the second day of the 8th Asian-Australasian conference on precision agriculture at PAU, the keynote speaker of the day, Prof Viacheslav Adamchuk, [BRE] shared his views on sensor systems in precision agriculture with special emphasis on development of proximal soil and plant sensing systems, geospatial data processing and management and practical implementation of precision agriculture.
Category:
Published on: 17 Oct 2019
Autonomous Controlled-Environment Chamber is "a growth system with minimal input and maximum crop yield"
When the聽Sustainability Projects Fund聽(SPF) was established in 2009, it was an experiment.
Category:
Published on: 9 Oct 2019
OpEd by Dr Alice Cherestes, Director, Freshman Program
Students talk about the course as OChem or Orgo, otherwise known as Organic Chemistry, one of the most dreaded courses for any student doing a university science degree. The course, taken mostly in the early stage of a student鈥檚 undergraduate degree, requires that material taught during the first week of class be understood and applied many weeks later when students do the final exam.聽聽
Category:
Published on: 3 Oct 2019
Professor Chandra Madramootoo is the recipient of the 2019 World Irrigation and Drainage Prize. During the Opening Ceremony of the World Irrigation Forum on September 02 in Bali, H.E. Minister Basuki Hadimulyono, Minister for Water Resources and Public Works of Indonesia, and H.E.
Category:
Published on: 13 Sep 2019
Urban agriculture is getting a $750,000 boost from the province and from Montreal to help develop the farming sector.
聽The goal is to spur innovation and growth in urban farming, agriculture and local greenhouses, ensuring the projects align with the needs in each part of town to add to the vitality of the area.
... These measures have been due for a long time, said 麻豆约拍 Urban Agriculture Professor Mark Lefsrud.
Category:
Published on: 6 Sep 2019
Pages
