Stacey won first place, out of nearly 100 presentations, for the Prairie Universities Biological Symposium, held here inWinnipegthis weekend. Way to go Stacey! Stacey took an unusual approach of focusing not on her study and the results, but all the [...]

I’m really pleased to have the opportunity to congratulate 2 more students who have recently published some of their research in peer-reviewed journals: Jennifer Lusk (in Rangeland Ecology and Management) and Maggi Sliwinski (in Avian Conservation and Ecology). Both students wrote [...]

WOW guys! We’ve done a great job to get student’s work published in peer-reviewed journals in 2012. Congratulations to Chris DeRuyck (2 papers!), Dave Bruinsma, Crissy Ranellucci, and Mark Baschuk for their publications… and a few more students who are [...]

Congratulations to Kelsey and Adrienne for each getting second place in the student posters, and presentations, for the North American Prairie Conference held in Winnipeg last week. However, I am equally proud of the other students who presented at the conference…Alexis, [...]

Congratulations to Jessica for winning the Richard C. Goulden Memorial Award! This is an award established by the Manitoba Chapter of The Wildlife Society for research on wildlife inManitoba. Jessica won for her outstanding proposal on effects of grassland loss [...]

Many congratulations to Kelsey for being awarded Canadian Council on Ecological Areas (CCEA) Stan Rowe Home Place Scholarship for 2012. This is a very special national award for student research that contributes to the management or establishment of a network [...]

Congratulations to Laurel for winning the Connie Holland Bird Study Fund Award. Laurel is doing her PhD on conservation of golden-winged warblers. This is of particular interest in Manitoba, which was previously thought to be the only population of golden-winged [...]

Many congratulations to Adrienne Tastad, for being awarded second place for her presentation on comparing effects of cattle and bison grazing on prairie plants, at the Society for Range Management Annual Meeting in January… out of 27 Masters-level presentations! Way [...]

Want to learn more about Dr. Koper’s philosophy and approach to professorship and mentoring? Check out her professional blog at http://www.universityaffairs.ca/careers-cafe/. Her articles are published approximately every 3 weeks. Scroll down the posts to see her articles on supervising, sabbaticals, [...]

WOW! Amazing news… Maggi Sliwinski won Best Masters Thesis for the entire Faculty (Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba) for the thesis she defended in August 2011, entitled, “Changes in grassland songbird abundance and [...]