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Research Highlights

Welcome to Research Highlights. Below are just a few of the latest research stories from the U of C making news locally, nationally and internationally. Past stories are archived by year and month; click on the Archives link in the left-hand menu bar to acess them.
 

Dinosaur whodunit: solving a 77-million-year old mystery

Nov. 14, 2008
Water levels rise, and a dinosaur mother is faced with a dilemma: stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to the flood. Seventy-seven million years later, work conducted by U of C and Royal Tyrrell Museum researchers used this unique fossil nest and eggs to learn more about how nest building, brooding and eggs evolved. But there is a big unresolved question: who was the egg-layer?

 

Roadside memorials may improve safety

Nov. 7, 2008
The presence of roadside memorials can actually make people drive more carefully in some instances, according to a ground-breaking study conducted by the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary.

 Researcher Karl Riabowol and graduate student Mohamed Soliman in the gene array lab.
Karl Riabowol (R) and Mohamed Soliman.

New discovery in aging process

Nov. 6, 2008
New research from the University of Calgary is providing a better understanding of the aging process of cells, which could one-day slow down aging and delay many health problems associated with old-age such as the onset of cancer.

 

Innovators II

Meet five of our young innovators. Researchers who are doing things differently and moving their products to the marketplace. Their multidisciplinary approach brings together the great minds of the University of Calgary to solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.