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Palm oil plantations and deforestation in Guatemala: Certifying products as 'sustainable' is no panacea

Published: 27 July 2023

Palm oil, which can be found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, is notorious for causing deforestation and biodiversity loss. Efforts to curtail the damage have largely focused...

Food companies are swapping ingredients with lower-quality substitutes to cut costs, experts say

Published: 5 September 2023

If you’ve noticed that certain products in the grocery store taste different from how you remember, it’s possible some of their ingredients have been swapped for cheaper alternatives. ...

From AI to robot butchers, automating the meat packing industry is not cut-and-dried

Published: 11 October 2023

Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics are reshaping many parts of the economy, and experts say the meat-processing sector could benefit from improved technology to overcome labour...

Spring 2022 Convocation wraps up at Macdonald Campus

Published: 23 June 2022

91˿Ƶ’s Spring 2022 Convocation began on an overcast day on May 26th, with graduating Health Sciences students accepting their degrees under the Convocation Tent downtown. The 2022 festivities...

Made by hands-on learning: Jennifer Dumoulin

Published: 6 October 2022

Focus on Macdonald sat down with alum Jennifer Dumoulin, BSc(AgEnvSc)’11 Environmental Biology, to ask a few questions about her student experiences that led to a successful career as an...

Elena Bennett: Exploring the complexity of ecosystems

Published: 15 November 2022

Exploring the complexity of ecosystems by John Allemang Elena Bennett delights in uncertainty.

New Resource making 91˿Ƶ labs more sustainable

Published: 13 January 2023

Interested in making your lab a more sustainable place to work and study?...

Mac Campus welcomes new Director of Development

Published: 23 June 2022

Celeste Longhurst joined the Macdonald University Advancement Team early in the new year. In this position, she leads the AES fundraising campaign and manages the Faculty’s University Advancement...

Bennett co-authors The Guidebook for the Engaged University

Published: 29 September 2022

Co-authored by Prof. Elena Bennett (#NRS91˿Ƶ/#91˿ƵBSE) the Guidebook for the Engaged University gives the academy both a vision and a roadmap to a more impactful future, in which universities,...

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