In a video trailer about her book, Out of Milk, Acadia researcher Dr. Lesley Frank answers the breastfeeding paradox – why women who can least afford to buy infant formula are less likely to breastfeed.
Read more … Acadia researcher explains why some babies are at risk of going hungry
Allie Fournier clearly remembers learning about the distressing plight of Nova Scotia’s bat population at an Acadia event called “Bat Tales” in 2013.
Dear campus community,
Acadia University is working closely with Public Health and our government partners to ensure your health and safety. Since our COVID-19 advisory on Saturday, we have confirmed a second positive case, and there are several individuals in our campus community who are self-isolating as they await test results.
Out of an abundance of caution, Acadia is implementing the following measures, effective December 14 at 8 a.m.
This week, Dr. Mark Mallory and Dr. Jennifer Provencher of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) assembled a team of researchers to dissect over 175 Arctic seabirds harvested from various Nunavut locations in the Irving Centre labs. The specimens were collected by Inuit hunters over the past year as part of a large scale, collaborative research project that contributes to our understanding of contaminant risk from increased vessel traffic and plastic pollution in the Arctic. Results of this research directly inform policy decisions by Inuit and ECCC.
Catch up with our recap of November campus news, including the launch of BforKai and Acadia signing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Accord.
More than 120 students lined up to receive a free meningitis B vaccine on Friday, November 26 at Acadia University’s Sheldon L. Fountain Learning Commons. The potentially life-saving vaccination clinic and awareness launch were courtesy of the Matthews family. The deadly disease took their son Kai's life in June. He had just completed his first year at Acadia in kinesiology.
“The worst thing that happens to a university community is the loss of a student,” said Dr. Peter Ricketts, President and Vice-Chancellor, who met Kai virtually during orientation week. “What we are going to do is to channel that grief into a positive movement to make sure that we never, ever forget Kai Matthews.”
Select students at Acadia University will soon have an exciting opportunity to travel the globe to build Indigenous knowledge across international borders as part of a new short-term study abroad partnership in Belize.
