Some common themes, including aboriginal, agriculture and water secruity, have emerged as the university moves toward identifying its pre-eminent areas of academic programming and scholarship.

Researchers from the Museum of Antiquities are hoping an experiment at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron (CLS) could shine some light on the origin of some very old coins and, at the same time, revolutionize a technique for identifying archeological specimens without having to ruin them.

A very old mollusk and a very new piece of research equipment are shedding light on the history of the world’s climate, and what the future might have in store for all of us.

A new music video – From Stilettos to Moccasins – was released in mid-November, the culmination of a unique project to give voice to aboriginal women healing from drug abuse, addictions and problems with the law.

Researcher Angela Baerwald is re-writing the textbook on female fertility
photo and story by Mark Ferguson

“Today might be the day,” says an anonymous U of S professor, walking towards a research clinic in the old wing of Royal University Hospital. “Angie said if we can catch the event on the ultrasound, I will have a very famous ovary.”

Soledade Pedras has spent a long time, some 15 years in fact, exploring the basic chemistry that governs the battle between pathogens and plants, and it has all paid off with an exciting breakthrough that could protect field crops grown around the world.

When a fireball lit up the evening sky across parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta late last year, it left a trail of space rock scattered across the prairie landscape. Mel Stauffer didn’t waste any time making his way down to Buzzard Coulee to search for pieces of the meteorite to add to his already impressive collection from all over the world.

A big research facility like the Canadian Light Source synchrotron at the U of S would seem an unlikely place to find a writer-in-residence, unless that writer has a particular interest in science fiction.

Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer
Submitted photo

The technology may be microscopic, yet the university’s new IBM processors are helping solve a huge problem by aiding the creation of software for clean coal simulation.

Ray Spiteri with the university's new cell broadband engine processors.
Photo by Mark Ferguson

Barb Phillips has studied photographs in advertising for years but one in particular—a Vogue magazine picture of a rail-thin model wearing a pumpkin-shaped skirt and clunky high heels—set her on a new quest, to discover what it is about fashion ads that appeal to women.

Barb Phillips, Rawlco Scholar in Advertising in the Edwards School of Business.
Photo by Colleen MacPherson