UNB Research
UNB researchers combine history and technology to create a new perspective on urban change.
UNB Research
Posted: November 27, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Two University of New Brunswick (UNB) researchers have teamed up to develop a novel approach to understanding 20th century urbanization. By combining interdisciplinary research methods from social history and geomatics engineering, Dr. Sasha Mullally, a professor of historical studies, and Dr. Yun Zhang, a professor of geodesy and geomatics engineering, along with a team of researchers, are...
Read the full postIntersex Awareness Day: Dr. Celeste Orr and Cripping Intersex
UNB Research
Posted: October 26, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, Publications
Today, October 26, is National Intersex Awareness Day, a day intended to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people. In recognition of this day, we're highlighting UNB's Dr. Celeste Orr, assistant professor of sociology and Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies. Last year, Dr. Orr published Cripping Intersex (2022), in which they explore how interphobia and...
Read the full postRecognizing 2022 Award for Excellence in Research recipient, Dr. Shelley Doucet
UNB Research
Posted: October 4, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, Accolades
As part of our 2023 Research Celebration Week, we are highlighting the most recent recipients of two of UNB’s major research awards: The University Research Scholar award, and the Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Shelley Doucet is the 2022 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research. The following is an excerpt from vice-president (Saint John), Dr. Petra Hauf’s comments...
Read the full postRecognizing 2023 University Research Scholar, Dr. Donald Wright
UNB Research
Posted: October 4, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades, Partnerships, Research, Innovation & Commercialization
As part of our 2023 Research Celebration Week, we are highlighting the most recent recipients of two of UNB’s major research awards: The University Research Scholar award, and the Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Donald Wright is the 2023 recipient of UNB’s University Research Scholar award, which "honours members of the active faculty complement of the University of New...
Read the full postWelcome to the 2023 UNB Research Celebration Week
UNB Research
Posted: October 3, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships, Accolades, Research, Innovation & Commercialization
UNB’s annual Research Celebration Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate the efforts and contributions of our institution's research community: the faculty, students and staff who help make the world better through their scholarly work. It's also an opportunity for us to recognize some of the organizations and individuals that help make that research possible: our funders and...
Read the full postThis photo of a tiny worm is one to keep an eye on
UNB Research
Posted: September 15, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades, Publications, Research
Natasha Hynes is a graduate student at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), where she is completing her master of science in biology. Hynes is also a finalist in this year’s NSERC Science Exposed contest, an annual contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in all fields of study. It is...
Read the full postMeet the chair: Dr. Hamed Asgari, Lockheed Martin Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing
UNB Research
Posted: July 14, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships, Innovation & Commercialization, Research
Dr. Hamed Asgari is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Lockheed Martin Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). With his appointment, the university’s sector-leading expertise in marine additive manufacturing will get a new boost in capacity as Asgari takes metal-part fabrication from 3D printing to 4D. 4D printing involves...
Read the full postUNB experts join Black Arcs to create novel disease modelling system
UNB Research
Posted: June 20, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Partnerships, Research, Innovation & Commercialization
At the height of COVID-19, Fredericton company Black Arcs knew they could help governments and experts with better pandemic response planning. They already had Citisketch, a product that simulates the daily life of communities; how people move around and behave throughout their day. They’d built it with trusted, anonymized statistical data and knew it provided reliable insights about...
Read the full postNational conference will attract hundreds of physicists to UNB
UNB Research
Posted: June 16, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
The University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Fredericton campus will soon welcome hundreds of physicists attending the Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). They’ll spend five days exchanging ideas and sharing research advances. Members of the public will also have an opportunity to learn something new from one of the leading minds in the field. Dr. Ben Newling, a...
Read the full postUNB master’s student one of 2023’s top research storytellers in national competition
UNB Research
Posted: May 11, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades, Research
Zyrene Estallo, a master’s student in education at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), is one of this year’s 25 finalists in the annual Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers Challenge competition. The Storytellers Challenge “asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities...
Read the full postResearch shows diverse forests are best for mitigating climate change
UNB Research
Posted: April 26, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, Publications
New research provides strong statistical evidence that forests with a diverse, even mix of tree species offer significant advantages over monoculture forests for carbon sequestration, a crucial element in mitigating climate change. The article, “Tree diversity increases decadal forest soil carbon and nitrogen accrual,” was published in the leading journal Nature. Dr. Anthony Taylor,...
Read the full postResearch indicates warming-induced tree growth may provide climate change relief
UNB Research
Posted: February 10, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Publications, Research
An increasing number of fires, droughts and insect infestations pose a significant threat to the future of the Canadian boreal forest and to our climate along with it. New research out of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) suggests that increased tree growth, due to warming climates, may offset some of this decline. Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across...
Read the full postFrom fashion to faculty: How a UNB psychology scholar is creating a safer and healthier world
UNB Research
Posted: February 6, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Dr. Emilie Lacroix is a new faculty member at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) who is using her research to create healthier and more positive outcomes for people suffering from eating disorders. We spoke with her about how she came to study the psychology of eating disorders and what she hopes to contribute with her research. Who are you? My name is Dr. Emilie Lacroix, and I’m an...
Read the full postMeet the researcher: Dr. Koumari Mitra, qualitative understandings of homelessness and health care access
UNB Research
Posted: February 3, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research, Partnerships
What do unhoused populations experience when interacting with the health-care system, and what kind of gaps do they experience? In today's blog post, we speak with Dr. Koumari Mitra, an anthropologist at UNB who is working with a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team to understand the challenges homelessness poses to health and recovery - and why working across specializations...
Read the full postMeet the researcher: Dr. Trevor Hanson: Improving rail safety in Canada
UNB Research
Posted: January 24, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Partnerships, Research
Dr. Trevor Hanson, a professor of civil engineering at the University of New Brunswick, is working with researchers at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) on a Transport Canada project that could help save lives by making grade crossings safer for pedestrians and people who use assistive devices. Having just officially announced this project, we took the opportunity to speak with him...
Read the full postMeet the chair: Dr. Argyri Panezi, CRC in Digital Information Law and Policy
UNB Research
Posted: January 20, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
The Government of Canada recently announced new and renewed Canada Research Chairs. Among those is Dr. Argyri Panezi, the new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Digital Information Law and Policy at UNB. We spoke with her about what brought her to this field, and how technology and law are coming together. Who are you? My name is Argyri Panezi, and I am a legal scholar at the University of New...
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