Focus on Macdonald

Macdonald leadership recognized on the National Stage

Earlier this year public institutions across the country received a call from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada to submit projects to the IPAC Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Awards. Had we undertaken a project that demonstrated outstanding leadership and strategic thinking, that was innovative and that could be held up as an example of public policy and management? A tall order – but indeed we thought we had! [...]

Professor recognized for contributions to graduate education

Congratulations to Natural Resource Sciences professor Elena Bennett, who is the 2012 recipient of the Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision. [...]

Quand le corps n’en fait qu’à sa tête – Découvrez ce qui vous pousse à manger

In her newest book, Professor Louise Thibault looks at our conscious and unconscious relationship with food, focusing on what is going on in both the body and the brain that affects weight loss or gain. [...]

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Spotlight on Macdonald Alumni: Integrated Water Resource Managers Dive into Great Careers

Through the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Graduate Program, the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has been training the next generation of water professionals in interdisciplinary concepts and methods for adaptive, integrated, and participatory water resources management. We contacted three of our alumni from the IWRM program to learn about the directions they have taken in their career path. Each of them shared a glimpse of their work in this featured article: IWRM Alumni in Action. [...]

New Program Announced

A new MSc (Applied) in Bioresource Engineering — Integrated Food and Bioprocessing — will be offered this fall. The program will give students an understanding of how agricultural and food production systems interact, and the tools and techniques required to design, manage and sustain the planet’s biomass. [...]

Service Point for Graduate Students

The Faculty is pleased to announce the launching of the Macdonald Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. [...]

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Research and Agriculture: A new crop for Quebec

Macdonald researcher Jean-Benoit Charron is intent on giving Quebec’s agricultural community the tools it requires to boost the productivity of a promising new crop. Charron believes that hemp research, which is at an embryonic stage in Canada and particularly in Quebec, has a role to play in giving growers the tools they require to have a competitive advantage in the marketplace. [...]

Research and the Community: A partnership to end hunger

Food insecurity has emerged as a growing problem on the Island of Montreal. According to West Island Community Shares “there are pockets of poverty on the West Island that are among the poorest on the Island of Montreal.” Researchers in the FAES, led by Professor Kris Koski, Director of the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Dr. Caroline Begg, Coordinator of Ecological Agriculture (Department of Plant Science), and Field Coordinator Amy Van Elslande (MSc’12), have teamed up with Lucy Baum, Director of the West Island’s Corbeille de Pain/Bread Basket Lac St. Louis (CDP), to improve the food security of CDP’s youth, young mother, refugee, immigrant and senior clientele. [...]

Research and Health: One potato, two potato…

Researchers Danielle Donnelly of the Department of Plant Science and Stan Kubow of the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition are teaming up with Quebec potato producers, researchers, breeders and packers to select breeding lines of potatoes with a lower glycemic index and reduced blackening. [...]

Research and the Environment: Healthier trees, healthier environment

Researchers from the Department of Bioresource Engineering are trying to get a better handle on what is going on beneath ground level in order to improve conditions for urban trees. They are looking to understand, and subsequently improve, tree pit soil through innovative approaches and modelling complex ecological situations related to urban environments and tree growth and survival. [...]

Research and the Farm: Using vegetable residue as animal feed

Quebec produces 64% of the total domestic production of broccoli, 48% of cabbage, 44% of carrot and 29% of cauliflower. Due to the high standards imposed by consumers and merchants, more than 90,000 tonnes of vegetables are discarded annually. This represents 25% to 70% of annual production for some species in Quebec and has a major environmental impact as it is a significant source of organic waste. [...]

Research and Industry: “NASA technology” hits the grocery stores

Imagine being able to get fresh produce in your local grocery store within 45 minutes of harvest, all coming from a large warehouse-like building just minutes away. In partnership with Urban Barns, Professor Mark Lefsrud is helping to make this a reality. [...]

Research and Industry: Good to the last drop…

Plant Science professor and Associate Dean (Research) Suha Jabaji, an expert in functional genomics of microbes and analytical chemistry, is partnering with a Canadian energy company to develop a cost-effective, environmentally acceptable alternative form of efficient oil recovery. [...]

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