Nipissing University welcomes Dr. Derek Pratt, professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, to campus for a special lecture, titled Free Radical Oxidation and its Inhibition: Taking the Battle from Fossil Fuel-Derived Products to Living Matter onFriday, October 21 at 3:30 p.m. in room A226.
On September 14, 1944, Kenneth Donald Duncanson was killed during intense fighting in Belgium during WWII. The Algonquin Regiment, to which he belonged was forced to retreat and in the chaos, Duncanson’s body was left in the Belgian field where he fell. Duncanson’s body remained lost until November 2014, when a hobbyist discovered his remains using a metal detector.
With marijuana legalization seemingly on the near horizon in Canada, the physical, long-term effects of cannabis on adolescents is of increasing concern to many Canadians. Dr. Andrew Weeks, associate professor of psychology at Nipissing University, will be giving a special lecture on how chronic cannabis use in adolescence could affect the developing brain.
New research out of Nipissing University shows that testosterone can quickly increase aggressive behaviour when administered to men with dominant and/or impulsive personality traits.
Congratulations to Dr. Laurie Kruk, associate professor of English, on the publication of Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland, a new anthology she co-edited with Jane Satterfield.