Taco Belles place second in the Maple Innovation Challenge
Congrats to Taco Belles Veronica Jaramillo and Priscilla Leftakis for their second-place finish in the Maple Innovation Challenge. The competition was sponsored by Quebec maple syrup producers, the Maple Products Corporation and the Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology (CIFST). Their product? A maple vegan hot chocolate mix.
Exploring nutrition through a high-tech lens
McGill鈥檚 Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, a key part of the School of Human Nutrition at Macdonald Campus, has a new home and vastly improved infrastructure for cutting-edge studies. The CNRU is pursuing a wide variety of projects with one common ingredient 鈥� the instrumental role that nutrition plays in keeping us healthy.
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51吃瓜网teams participate in Deep Space Food Challenge
On January 17, two 51吃瓜网teams, InSpira Photobioreactor and the Cricket Rearing, Collection, and Transformation System (CRCTS) competing under the 51吃瓜网Advanced Bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long Excursion Trips (MARTLET) umbrella, presented their prototypes to the NASA/CSA Deep Space Food Challenge鈥檚 jury.
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CIFOR-ICRAF announces Dr. Eliane Ubalijoro as CEO
Eliane Ubalijoro (B.Sc.(Agr)鈥�92, M.Sc.鈥�95, Ph.D.鈥�01) has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Director General of ICRAF -the world鈥檚 leading research and development centre on trees, forests and landscapes. Dr. Ubalijoro will be the first African woman Director General of a CGIAR Research Center and CEO of two Centers in CGIAR鈥檚 52-year history.
Agropur sells U.S. manufacturing plant
Dairy processor Agropur continues to refocus its activities. After selling its interests in I脰GO yogurts two years ago, in December it sold a Wisconsin-based plant used to manufacture dairy and non-dairy ingredient blends. The sale price was not disclosed.
New Resource making 51吃瓜网labs more sustainable
Interested in making your lab a more sustainable place to work and study?Check out the Sustainable Labs Guide, a newly updated resource to help 51吃瓜网faculty, staff, and students operate their labs more sustainably. This online guide suggests about 75 actionable steps to improve water and energy conservation, animal research, waste management, and more.
Mac Campus dairy wins regional award for milk excellence
For the third year in a row, the Macdonald Campus Dairy Unit has been awarded the title of Regional Club of Excellence Milk Quality Champion by dairy industry giant Agropur.
Accepting the award at a regional meeting on November 25, Natasha Lapointe, Animal Science Coordinator of the Dairy Unit, credited her team鈥檚 commitment to maintaining high standards.
Wees: The life of the Christmas tree
"Cultivated trees grow faster [than their natural counterparts] because in the early years much effort is spent weeding out the competition," points out David Wees, Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Plant Science at McGill's Macdonald Campus.
Mainstreaming bison meat
Northfork Bison, one of Canada鈥檚 biggest specialty and wild game meat companies, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The founder and president of the company, Rocco Verelli, B.Sc. (Agr)鈥�85, is leading the charge to educate consumers on the savoury goodness of protein-packed bison meat and stimulate growth in a niche food industry that has helped bring the beefy ruminants back from the brink of extinction.
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue recognized as 'Bird Friendly City'
During the UN biodiversity summit known as COP15, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue was one of 14 cities in Canada, and the only place in Quebec, to be named a "Bird Friendly City." Nature Canada developed this
Mac campus dairy wins regional award for milk excellence
For the third year in a row, the Macdonald Campus Dairy Unit has been awarded the title of Regional Club of Excellence聽Milk Quality Champion by dairy industry giant Agropur.
Accepting the award at a regional meeting on November 25, Natasha Lapointe, Animal Science Coordinator of the Dairy聽Unit, credited her team鈥檚 commitment to maintaining high standards.
Quebec increases its sustainable agriculture program by $15 million
On Monday, Minister of Agriculture Andr茅 Lamontagne will speak at the 7th Summit of Subnational Governments and Cities, an "official side event" of COP15. The Minister, alongside a dozen dignitaries, will participate in a panel that will stress the importance of making local governments ambassadors for the new global framework on biological diversity, set to be adopted at the close of COP15.
Herd of fugitive cows frustrates tiny village in Canada
A herd of approximately two dozen heifers spooked during a thunderstorm has been wandering through the countryside east of Montreal since July. All attempts to capture the heifers have fallen short, and the herd has survived by eating unharvested corn and other field crops and drinking from streams in the area.