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Students inaugurate bilingual biology field research course

Students inaugurate bilingual biology field research course

After a 14-hour train ride, Cassandra Carey and Emma Joo alighted in Métis-sur-Mer, Que., to find a platform empty except for their two suitcases. It was an unusual beginning to their research-based field course in biology – a far cry from the York University campus they had left behind. “We got off the train in the […]

Glendon professor publishes new book on non-native species

Glendon professor publishes new book on non-native species

Glendon Biology Professor Radu Guiasu recently published a new book titled Non-native species and their role in the environment:  The need for a broader perspective. The book was published by the prestigious academic publishing house Brill, based in The Netherlands. The book offers a more tolerant, open-minded, and positive view of so-called “invasive” plant and […]

Primatologist Valerie Schoof awarded NSERC grant for research on vervet monkeys

Primatologist Valerie Schoof awarded NSERC grant for research on vervet monkeys

The funding will build a long-term study of how the environment influences hormones and behaviour. A primate behavioural ecologist in Glendon’s bilingual biology program, Dr. Schoof specializes in the ecological, social, and physiological factors that influence—and are influenced by—social dominance in male primates. Her research program, now partially funded through a grant from the Natural Sciences […]