An in-depth analysis of Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) marketing of barley by a research trio from the University of Saskatchewan and two U.S.

Today Saskatchewan’s universities were awarded about $2 million in federal funding for high-performance computing (HPC) equipment for applications ranging from genetics to environmental modeling and to allow researchers to collaborate in real time with colleagues across the country.

Three University of Saskatchewan researchers will receive a total of $1.5 million over the next five years from the federal government to further research into advanced synthetic chemistry techniques for medicine, synchrotron-based analysis of materials for next-generation technologies, and mapping tools to guide service delivery for Aboriginal Peoples in Western Canadian cities.

Today the Canada Foundation for Innovation awarded $22 million for four major projects at the University of Saskatchewan to advance research into the health of agricultural workers, high-value feed products, metals in the brain, and toxins in water.

Today $25.8 million was awarded from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for three projects to be built at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) national synchrotron facility at the University of Saskatchewan.

FarmPure Seeds of Regina will invest $300,000 over five years to fund development of superior oat varieties at the University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre (CDC). “Oat research and development, especially the development of improved varieties well adapted to Saskatchewan growing conditions, is critical to long-term success,” says Trenton Baisley, CEO of FarmPure, a farmer-owned Pedigreed seed production and marketing organization.

Today University of Saskatchewan researcher Nazeem Muhajarine will receive a Knowledge Translation Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for his leadership in turning research results into policies and programs that help Saskatchewan’s children.

To aid in the current public debate over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), a research team at the University of Saskatchewan has compiled a list of CWB-related materials. “With all the discussion and debate surrounding the future of the Canadian Wheat Board, we felt it was necessary to create a site for interested individuals to find information on both sides of the CWB debate ...."

Research into anxiety and depression at the University of Saskatchewan receives a $780,000 boost today to develop early diagnosis tools for these debilitating conditions and develop treatments to improve the quality of life of both patients and their caregivers.

100 Days of Freedom, a film documenting the lives of three former inmates as they reintegrate into society, will go to air Nov. 18th on Global TV thanks to the innovative research of University of Saskatchewan PhD student Karen Parhar.

As public health officials around the world keep a nervous eye on the spread of avian influenza, the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) has uncovered a key step in how the influenza virus causes infection. Yan Zhou and her team have discovered...

A University of Saskatchewan research centre will present new research and innovative programs for the prevention and intervention of violence and abuse at an upcoming conference. RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Abuse and Violence) Saskatchewan will host its annual event on: Friday, November 17, 2006, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Livestock producers will soon have access to a new variety of oat with a nutritional profile similar to barley, thanks to an innovative partnership among producers, the provincial government, and the University of Saskatchewan.“This oat variety is the first designed to combine...

A research initiative led by the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan is joining forces with the aboriginal community and health agencies to find ways to put more aboriginal doctors and nurses into Saskatchewan communities. With an investment of more than $295,000...

Ground-breaking research into the power of hope for the dying has helped earn a University of Saskatchewan nursing professor the fall 2006 Distinguished Researcher Award. Associate nursing professor of nursing Wendy Duggleby will be presented with the award...

The development of new computer technologies and the evolution of the Internet is creating exciting new opportunities for lifelong learning.

Will melting glaciers in the Rockies affect water flow in the Saskatchewan River system that provides critical water supplies to major Prairie cities? Will changing spring flooding in the Arctic impede pipeline construction, diamond mining and other economic development?

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, today announced $1.75 million in new funding to support the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) for development of alternatives to antibiotics over the next three years.

The Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan signed a memorandum of understanding with the new French Synchrotron SOLEIL, during a special ceremony held at the University October 5th.

Lieutenant Governor Dr. Gordon Barnhart today announced the names of five recipients of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Industry and Resources Minister Eric Cline on behalf of Agriculture and Food Minister Mark Wartman today announced the Province is providing the vaccine and infectious disease organization (VIDO) with $1.5 million over five years to continue its work of protecting the world from infectious diseases.

Greg Baeker, Canada’s leading expert on integrated cultural strategies for cities, will headline a Sept. 14th public forum on the role of arts and culture in population gain and retention, wealth generation and quality of life in Saskatchewan's communities.

Two University of Saskatchewan research teams have been awarded nearly $800,000 from PrioNet Canada to help develop vaccines for mad cow and similar diseases and to track the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer in the wild.

Two University of Saskatchewan economists have been awarded $250,000 from Infrastructure Canada to study how joint planning between expanding urban centres and their neighboring rural communities can enhance prosperity throughout their regions.

Eight new research projects at the University of Saskatchewan have been launched to study the economic well-being of immigrants to Canada, mentorship and development of nurses, historical causes of dust storms and wind erosion on the Great Plains, and much more.

Television's CSI sleuths use cutting-edge technology to help solve their weekly crimes, but they haven't used a synchrotron - yet.

A highly successful music graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, who has gone on to become one of North America’s premiere organists, is now set to appear as a featured performer at a prestigious concert in Chicago.

University of Saskatchewan faculty and students will be among 8,000 scholars speaking and presenting papers at York University May 27 to June 3 at the 2006 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest conference of its kind in North America.

Three University of Saskatchewan-led research teams have been awarded $2.3 million over five years to explore health inequities among vulnerable populations including Aboriginal people, minority francophones, and disadvantaged people in Saskatoon.

Scientists will help conserve Canada’s valuable livestock breeds through the Canadian Animal and Poultry Genetic Resources initiative, a new program developed by the University of Saskatchewan and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) which is providing just over $1 million for equipment and other start-up costs.

A University of Saskatchewan professor whose pioneering research is providing knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s precious fresh water resources will receive this spring’s Distinguished Researcher Award at the Spring Convocation ceremony at 9:00 a.m. on May 24 at TCU Place in Saskatoon.

In a bid to find a way to protect newborns from whooping cough, a research team at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) has shown that vaccinating pregnant sows may control the disease in newborn piglets.

Two University of Saskatchewan researchers have won the fifth annual Innovation Place-Industry Liaison Office Award of Innovation for their development of a unique way to protect newborn calves against disease.

Researchers across the country will soon have access to the Canadian Light Source synchrotron at the University of Saskatchewan right from their desktops thanks to an ultrafast computer link pioneered by the Alberta Synchrotron Institute (ASI) at the University of Alberta and CANARIE, Canada’s advanced Internet development organization.

Four international projects will receive a total of more than $20,000 in funding from the University of Saskatchewan’s Global Partners initiative, a grassroots program designed to help U of S faculty develop closer research and teaching ties with colleagues in developing countries.

Two University of Saskatchewan Canada Research Chairs have been awarded a total of $1 Million over the next five years from the Government of Canada to further cutting-edge research into more natural and intuitive computer networking environments and creating renewable, environmentally friendly diesel fuel from vegetable oil.

The University of Saskatchewan will host the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences -- Canada’s largest annual multidisciplinary academic meeting and the largest conference ever held in Saskatoon.

A University of Saskatchewan lecturer and artist will bring his vision of the northern Saskatchewan landscape to Japan with an upcoming solo exhibition of his most recent paintings.

A University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist has been awarded $300,000 from the federal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a three-year project designed to help the agricultural sector, universities, and government exchange information and adapt within a rapidly changing agricultural environment.

Five University of Saskatchewan researchers have been awarded a total of almost $480,000 from the federal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to lead five new Aboriginal research projects in areas including literacy, urban identity, and the teaching of life skills to children and youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

Today the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced an investment of more than $3.6 million in 13 University of Saskatchewan research projects that will create world-class knowledge and contribute to strengthening of Canada's health system.

The Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan recently marked an important science achievement with the publication of the first research papers resulting from experiments performed at Canada’s national synchrotron facility.

Aboriginal Peoples will catch up educationally and economically to the rest of Saskatchewan when they become at least half the population around the middle of the 21st century, says University of Saskatchewan economics professor Eric Howe.

A Canadian research team led by the Ottawa Health Research Institute, the University of Ottawa, and The Ottawa Hospital has found an increased risk of premature delivery, low birth weight, fetal death, and infant seizures among pregnant women who used a popular class of antidepressants during pregnancy.

The University of Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal Education Research Centre (AERC) has been selected by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) to co-lead a new national network for gathering and sharing information on effective approaches to Aboriginal learning.

Three University of Saskatchewan researchers whose innovations range from a treatment for deadly lung inflammation, to a way of protecting newborn calves against disease, to a novel gene that shortens the time required for plants to mature, have been nominated for the Innovation Place-Industry Liaison Office’s “Award of Innovation.”

Long-time Saskatchewan business leader and scientist Murray McLaughlin has been appointed Director of Business Development of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), effective the beginning of April.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan — The Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron will expand innovation research with $3.8 million of new funding. The funding is targeted toward seven new ‘beamlines’ that will allow six distinct new types of research.

Five students from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and one student from another Canadian veterinary college will get first-hand experience in biomedical science this summer thanks to a prominent program designed to attract veterinarians into research careers.

A Pakistani journalist who had to leave her home country after being hunted by Islamic fundamentalists will spend a year at the University of Saskatchewan as part of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile program, the first placement of its kind for the university.

Today five University of Saskatchewan researchers were awarded grants totaling more than $440,000 for tools to better understand fetal immune systems, the mechanisms of why we forget, how to harness stem cells to treat infertility, how to design “smart devices” to aid in physical rehabilitation, and the potential of poplar and willow as alternative crops in agriculture.

The university community was invited to attend this free public lecture on March 22, 2006. Presented by the Office of the President and the Office of Research Communications.

The University of Saskatchewan received more than $6.2 million today from the province's Innovation and Science Fund for the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy beamline (BMIT) at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron.

The actual sound of musical performances versus how they are described in written musical scores is the subject of the next lecture in the University of Saskatchewan’s Fine Arts Research Lecture Series in Music.

A University of Saskatchewan alumnus and internationally recognized researcher who played a key role in the discovery that stem cells can be harvested from human adult skin will highlight the U of S Life and Health Sciences Research Conference on Friday, March 17th.

Have you ever wondered how cell phone use affects your brain? Did you know that regular physical activity may generate the growth of new brain cells?

Dr. Ernie Olfert, director of the Animal Resources Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, will receive the Outstanding Service Award on March 11 from the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) for his seminal contributions to improving the care and use of research animals.

University of Saskatchewan rhythm specialist John Neelin says rhythm in written music is an ongoing challenge for both teachers and performers of music.

The Government of Saskatchewan will provide $4.6 million to support two agricultural research projects, on frost tolerance for cereal crops and oilseed diversification, approved by Genome Canada. These projects are expected to result in significant long-term benefits to Saskatchewan producers and the provincial economy.

The University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre (CDC) is receiving a $15,000 boost from Grain Millers Canada of Yorkton to support future development and youth training in Saskatchewan’s oat industry.

University of Saskatchewan historian Keith Thor Carlson's research has helped redress an historical injustice against a West Coast Aboriginal group.

Society must come to grips with the apparent lack of economic viability of grain and oilseed production despite the remarkable historical success of Prairie agriculture, says University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist Hartley Furtan.

How technological change and an influential music recording company dramatically affected the development of 20th century music is the subject of a free public talk by University of Saskatchewan sessional instructor in jazz studies Mark DeJong.

An international research team led by the University of Saskatchewan has discovered a signalling pathway in the brain involved in drug addiction, together with a method for blocking its action, that may point to a single treatment strategy for most addictions.

Eating broccoli sprouts during pregnancy may provide your kids with life-long protection against cardiovascular disease, according to a research team led by Bernhard Juurlink at the University of Saskatchewan.

Traditionally focused on vaccines and management techniques to protect the health of livestock, the University of Saskatchewan’s world-class Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) has launched new programs targeting human health issues including SARS and hepatitis C.

U of S professor of musicology, Walter Kreyszig, will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) with a free public lecture exploring Mozart's "Rondo in A-Major for Piano and Orchestra, KV 386."

A U of S historian, whose investigative research uncovered a powerful and international story of racism, murder, and cover-up, will discuss the tragic story and its latest political ramifications at a campus screening of a new documentary film on the subject.

U of S music professor Glen Gillis will present a free public talk exploring the “free music” style of innovative composer Percy Grainger as the 94th in the University of Saskatchewan’s Fine Arts Research Lecture Series in Music.

Growing Saskatchewan’s urban centres is the best potential source of economic growth and prosperity for the province, says a new University of Saskatchewan public policy brief aimed at improving government planning.

U of S chemistry professor Dale Ward has been appointed director of the Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre (SSSC) beginning Jan. 1st, 2006 for a three-year term.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) have developed a vaccine candidate for hepatitis C, leading to hope in the fight against a disease for which no vaccines are yet available.

The Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG) and the Crop Development Centre (CDC) at the University of Saskatchewan have entered into a new long-term pulse breeding agreement worth $21 million over 15 years.

University of Saskatchewan music librarian Richard Belford will present an evening of 100 years of popular Saskatchewan music in the 93rd lecture of the Fine Arts Research Lecture Series.