Human Ecology - Press Releases | Health and Medicine
It Takes a Society: Fighting Childhood Obesity
McGill University | October 18, 2006
The undisputed pandemic of childhood obesity worldwide threatens to be the major public health problem of the new century. We have created a modern society in which the first generation of children of the new millennium could be the first since the rise of the industrial revolution to have a shorter lifespan than its predecessors....[continue]
UNBF RESEARCHERS AWARDED $40,000 TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN THE GRAND LAKE MEADOWS
University of New Brunswick - Saint John | June 29, 2006
Three researchers at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will add to our knowledge of the province’s largest wetland, the Grand Lake Meadows....[continue]
RICHARDSON CENTRE FOR FUNCTIONAL FOODS AND NUTRACEUTICALS BEGINS FUNCTIONING
University of Manitoba | May 16, 2006
Today, the University of Manitoba will mark the opening of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals....[continue]
Honorary degree recipients for June 2006 convocation
University of Alberta | April 4, 2006
The University of Alberta will confer nine honorary degrees at spring convocation 2006, June 7-9, 12 and 13 in the Jubilee Auditorium....[continue]
Jim Hole named honourary Centenary 2008 co-chair
University of Alberta | October 17, 2005
Prominent Edmonton businessman and U of A alumnus, Jim Hole, will join university president Indira Samarasekera as an honourary co-chair of the University of Alberta's 100th anniversary celebrations in 2008....[continue]
