Two Acadia University faculty members have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Research grants totaling more than $158,000 in support of innovative research. Julia Rombough (History and Classics) and Matthew McSweeney (Nutrition and Dietetics) are undertaking projects that use past experiences to shape how we engage with important issues of our time.

Acadia University faculty were recently awarded five Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants, totaling over $716,000 in research funding.

Research and Innovation hosts Tri-Agency Grant Writing Workshops for Faculty 

As the Arctic warms, its plants are changing, and Dr. Zoe Panchen is paying close attention.

Dr. Panchen, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Acadia University, uses digitized herbarium specimens to study how plants are responding to climate change.

Three of her papers are featured in this year's State of the World's Plants and Fungi report, produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew—one of the world's leading authorities on plant science.