I first came to Acadia as a Biology professor in 1973. When I arrived, my initial research interests were in the ecology of freshwater lakes and rivers, but a resurgence of interest in Fundy tidal power in 1976 created a […]
The Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) program at Mount Allison University is in jeopardy due to alleged budgetary reasons. The absence of a budget would do away with the WGST program, a prospect that has many students outraged, voicing the […]
Last week, in honour of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the Faculty of Arts hosted a candlelight vigil and a panel discussion. The vigil, held outside the SUB by Chaplain Tim McFarland, allowed students, faculty, and community […]
What a season it has been in the English Premier League. We are coming up to the ending of the show, as we round the bend towards the last ten games of the season. The table is tight from top […]
The next time you’re outside, take a close look at a few different trees. You will likely see several varieties of small structures on the bark that don’t seem to be part of the tree itself. Odds are, these are […]
I currently work as a Research Assistant in the Acadia Archives, working on Wendy Robicheau’s sabbatical project entitled “Acadia and the War.” The goal of this project is to investigate how Acadia students and faculty responded to the First World […]
Dr. Lesley Frank is a professor in Acadia’s Sociology Department. Frank, alongside a graduate student in the department, has been conducting a study investigating the prevalence food insecurity at Acadia. The research was spurred in part by Meal Exchange, a […]
Many of you may remember playing duck, duck, goose as a child. Today, many seabirds unwittingly play this game, but with one deadly variation. Instead of being “it,” birds tagged by human contact will likely die. This sad outcome is […]
How do we process speech, taking small features of the sounds emitted from one person and somehow finding meaning in them? Psycholinguistics seeks to illuminate how this process occurs by producing models that break down its steps and elements. Recognizing […]
Ducks are in the very fortunate position that they are worth lots money, so a lot of people care about them. Waterfowl hunting and associate ecotourism is a multi-billion dollar industry in North America, and a large portion of the […]
My honours thesis is focusing on the ways in which rap group NWA’s lyrics have affected Black American women. NWA’s music functioned as protest music against violent white supremacy in the form of police brutality, while simultaneously reinforcing dangerous stereotypes […]
My thesis is on the reactive nature of environmental protection legislation in Canada. Specifically examining how water protection only occurs after a human health tragedy. There are only a handful of topics that most Canadians can agree on. These topics […]
As a musicology student in the School of Music, I’m writing a thesis on Led Zeppelin and their music. I decided to research this band after seeing just how successful they were: • They rank second to the Beatles in […]
Computer Science Honours student Yonghong Chen developed an app that can be used to predict the amount of crop yield that an agricultural field will produce using only a picture. This startlingly accurate system is inexpensive and meets a huge […]