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New research shows how face shape relates to sexuality
My NipissingPsychology DepartmentResearchThe shape of your face might be giving away more information about your sex life than you ever imagined. A new research study shows that men and women with shorter, wider faces tend to have a stronger sex drive than people with faces of other dimensions. -
Dr. Zou’s work with Chinese Canadian seniors recognized
My NipissingResearchDr. Ping Zou, assistant professor in the School of Nursing, was recently featured in the Registered Nurse Journal, in a feature article titled Making a Difference for Seniors. -
Nipissing opens Research Data Centre
ResearchSociology and AnthropologyNipissing University is now home to a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC), a high-level, secure network and data lab that provides researchers with local access to Statistics Canada’s confidential, large-scale survey data. -
Cultural neuroscience on menu for psych speaker series
ResearchPsychology DepartmentSeminar SeriesNipissing University’s psychology speaker series welcomes Dr. Shinobu Kitayama, of the department of psychology at the University of Michigan, to campus for a lecture titled Cultural Neuroscience: Why we need it, on Friday, April 7 at 1 p.m. in room H105. -
NU researchers earn SSHRC grants
ResearchThree researchers at Nipissing University have earned close to half-a-million dollars in grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for work battling sex trafficking, determining why so many individuals don’t act to combat climate change, and to help kids be better people and teammates. -
NU’s Integrative Watershed Analysis Centre studying Lake Nipissing
ResearchMy NipissingAlumniThe work of Nipissing University’s Integrative Watershed Analysis Centre was featured recently in the journal Environmental Monitor. The article discusses the Bays Project the Centre is currently working on to build a better understanding of systems at work in and around Lake Nipissing, and how these systems might be manifesting in the lake, sometimes as the toxic blue green algae.
Nipissing professor receives $1.47 million in federal funding for climate change research
Dr. Colin McCarter, Assistant Professor at Nipissing University and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate and Environmental Change, has been awarded an Alliance Missions Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) valued at $1,466,449 to further his team’s work on climate change and ecosystem restoration research.
