Our Brazilian adventure begins late on Wednesday night with a 10 hour flight from Toronto to Sao Paolo. The flight is delayed by about 30 minutes, but that doesn’t seem like much considering we had to move our departure date back by 1 month already. Doing research in Brazil is hard. The bureaucratic hurdles are […]

Congratulations to MSc student Chris Chen on being awarded the University of Toronto Scarborough M.Sc. Graduate Research Award. Chris will receive the award in a ceremony on June 26th.

Congratulations to MSc student Derrick Groom on being awarded an American Museum of Natural History Frank M. Chapman Research Grant. These research funds will support Derrick’s field-based research on the evolution of fatty acid metabolism in hummingbirds taking place in Brazil in summer 2012.

Congratulations to MSc student Derrick Groom on being awarded a prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship! This funding will support Derrick as he continues his MSc thesis work.

Professors Welch, Boonstra, McGowan, and Weir were awarded an NSERC RTI that will support the purchase and installation of an “Environmental chamber for the study of wild-caught mammals and birds”.

Congratulations to incoming PhD student Brandy Velten on being awarded one of a handful of prestigious Ontario Trilliam Fellowships! Brandy will be joining the lab in fall 2012.

Congratulations to lab member Amina Allalou on being awarded a prestigious NSERC USRA fellowship! Amina will undertake her project in the Welch lab this coming summer.

Congratulations to lab member and MSc student Chris Chen on being named a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award winner! From the UTSC press release: “The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards were established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) and the Division of University Advancement in order to recognize students who have […]

Dr. Welch was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant! This funding will help the Welch lab expand an ongoing project at the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Joker’s Hill.

Congratulations to lab members Amina Allalou and Prateek Sehgal for begin named to the UTSC Honours List. Amina and Prateek will be honoured at the Academic Awards Night, Nov. 22 at 7 PM in the Meeting Place.