UNB Research
Intersex 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 ableism converge to construct intersex traits as disabled, and how this is linked to a cultural...
This 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 intended to showcase research images and foster interest in science and scientific curiosity. Through...
Research 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, an associate professor of forest management at the University of New Brunswick, is one of the...
Research 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 the Canadian boreal forest. PhD candidate Jiejie Wang and forestry and environmental management...
New biochemistry research provides groundbreaking insight for production of key chemotherapy drug
UNB Research
Posted: June 27, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Publications , Category
For decades, vinblastine has been an important medicine in chemotherapy regimens to treat a number of cancers and has helped save countless thousands of lives. In fact, the World Health Organization includes it on their List of Essential Medicines. And yet, in spite of its importance for modern, Western medicine, the world’s commercial supply stems from a single, natural source: the Madagascar periwinkle. “Because vinblastine is highly complex in structure and...
New UNB research may solve 50-year-old black hole mystery
UNB Research
Posted: April 26, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Publications , Category , Research
A new paper published by researchers at UNB might create some big shockwaves in the study of black holes. In their research, published in Physics Review Letters 128(12), Dr. Viqar Husain, Jarod Kelly, Robert Santacruz and Dr. Edward Wilson-Ewing describe the creation of a simulation that might just resolve a question that has stumped physicists for five decades: the so-called black hole information paradox. For the benefit of those of us without advanced degrees in quantum physics, we asked...
UNB researcher recognized for outstanding book
UNB Research
Posted: January 28, 2022 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Publications , Accolades
What a way to end the year! In December, UNB’s Dr. Hepzibah Muñoz-Martínez, an associate professor of history and politics at UNB in Saint John, was recognized for her book Uneven Landscapes of Violence: Geographies of Law and Accumulation in Mexico, which was named to the 2021 Choice list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Choice is a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), which is a division of the American Library Association and an important...
UNB researcher receives book, journal awards for groundbreaking work on race and disability
UNB Research
Posted: December 10, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Accolades , Publications
What happens when disability and race intersect? For Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, it opens a window into an entire area of history previously left to the margins. Dr. Hunt-Kennedy is an associate professor of Caribbean, Atlantic World and Disability history at the University of New Brunswick, and the author of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of Illinois Press, 2020). She’s also the recipient of the 2021 Disability History Association (DHA)...
Researchers share findings on COVID-19's impact on occupational disruption and chronic disease
UNB Research
Posted: April 9, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Publications , COVID-19 , Research
Around the world, researchers across different fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. Last year, we introduced you to 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects and their teams; now, with a full year of pandemic life behind us, we’re checking in to see what they’re working on and what they’ve accomplished. Want catch...
UNB researchers look to special sensors to reduce risk of bioterrorism
UNB Research
Posted: April 6, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , COVID-19 , Publications
University of New Brunswick researchers Connor O’Brien, Kathleen Varty, and Dr. Anna Ignaszak, have published an article in Nature examining the use of specialized sensors to detect highly contagious diseases and biological weapons. With the current global pandemic highlighting the rapid spread and significant impact of disease, the researchers wanted to present a wide array of electrochemical methods and platforms for the detection of the globe's most impactful diseases. The...
UNB research team recognized with best paper award from IBM
UNB Research
Posted: February 26, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Partnerships , Publications , Accolades
Britta Sennewald, a UNB graduate student in computer science, and Dr. Kenneth Kent, professor of computer science, were recognized with the Best Paper award at the 30th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON'20) for their work, Voting for Authorship Attribution Applied to Dark Web Data. The paper was also authored by Rainer Herpers and Marco Hülsmann, both at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (BRSU). Ms. Sennewald previously...
UNB researcher awarded editor’s choice recognition for quantum gravity article
UNB Research
Posted: February 19, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Publications , Accolades
Banner image: NASA image of the Crab Nebula, which was formed by a star going supernova, that combines data from five different telescopes. Read more about the nebula on NASA's site. Dr. Edward Wilson-Ewing is one of three authors of a paper titled, “Resolving the H0tension with diffusion,” published in General Relativity and Gravitation 53, 7, that recently received the issue’s Editor’s Choice designation from the journal. We asked him to tell us a bit about himself,...
UNB graduate wins award for journal article along his journey to clean the world's water
UNB Research
Posted: October 14, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Publications , Accolades , Research
UNB alumnus Ogbogu Kalu has been awarded a 2019 Acta Student Award valued at $2,000 for a paper authored as a graduate student at UNB. Mr. Kalu completed a bachelor of engineering at UNB in 2016, and his master of science in engineering in 2018. He currently works for Michelin in Bridgewater, N.S.Mr. Kalu’s paper, “A novel approach to the sol-gel synthesis of titanium dioxide-coated SBA-16 type silica mesoporous microspheres for water purification,” was published in Acta...