Fighting superbugs with traditional Indigenous knowledge
Tackling antibiotic resistance with Indigenous medicine and modern science
Archive: Faculty of Science
Scotty’s rib
Tough break, big discovery.
Marking World Water Day
A long-term study investigates how water quality is changing in Saskatchewan lakes
From COVID-19 to Bird Flu
Tracing disease through wastewater
Funding boost for nuclear science and subatomic physics
Innovation Saskatchewan Invests $580,000 in U of R Projects Advancing Nuclear Science and Subatomic Physics.
Quantum leap
The unlikely beginnings of a physicist
New research holds life-changing potential for CF patients
Dr. Omar El-Halfawy, a U of R Canada Research Chair, receives funding from Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
Urban wildlife project
A biology student is finding out what wildlife lives in Regina.
Lakes sweat to play it cool
New research published in Nature Communications shows that lakes can sweat off heat to fight the effects of climate warming…for a while.
Funding awarded to U of R researcher for critical mineral exploration
Geobiologist Dr. Leslie Robbins awarded $382,744 from CFI and Saskatchewan Innovation to create the Environmental Geochemistry and Interfaces (EGI) Lab.
Science exposed
Vote for University of Regina research photos!
Focusing in on autism
Dr. Mohan Babu and his team awarded $2 million USD for autism spectrum disorder research
Biology professor receives national award for outstanding graduate mentorship
Dr. Mark Brigham has changed many lives and has created a legacy of highly-trained biologists.
Organic matter found in fossilized 44-million-year-old beetle
An exciting new discovery opens a window to the past.
My identity is my superpower
Dr. Gwen Grinyer is the first open, out, and visible trans woman physicist in Canada.
Mercury-contaminated fish populations can recover
U of R research shows that mercury-contaminated fish can recover.
CHCHD2: Novel gene to help target treatments for Parkinson’s
U of R postdoc’s research on a novel gene moves us closer to better treatment, possible cure for Parkinson’s.
Tipping the scales: A new app hooks anglers and researchers
Saskatchewan anglers can now share fish data with U of R researchers
Accolades
Accolades recognizes a few of the honours U of R researchers have received in recent months.
Happy International Bat Week (and Halloween)!
Bat Week runs from October 24 to October 31
Citizen scientists test the waters
The University of Regina has been recruiting citizen scientists from across the province to test the water in more than 35 provincial lakes.
A microbiologist’s lifelong fascination with the living world
Microbiologist Dr. Andrew Cameron, whose fascination with the living world began at an early age, is using genomics to spot and study variations in the coronavirus.
Clarifying the Candida-cancer connection
Graduate student Easter Ndlovu is exploring the connection between cancer and Candida.
Research funding
Read about some our U of R researchers receiving funding for their innovative projects.
Physics and the principles of collaboration
U of R physicist Zisis Papandreou and his team have built the Generation-II BioPETx nuclear imaging detector – one of the world’s most advanced tools for looking inside living plants.
Nocturnal navigators
University of Regina biology students are shining a light on Regina’s most surprising fly-by-night operation.
Weeds, bees, and mould
University of Regina graduate students are working to find natural solutions to pressing farming problems.
Little field station on the Prairies
For almost 50 years, the University of Regina’s field station in the Cypress Hills has supported research that has led to internationally significant discoveries.
Innovative inoculants
Collaboration can be the key to discovery. In the case of a dynamic partnership between a University of Regina research team and an industry partner, it’s also the key to an award that celebrates innovation.
Working together to protect the quality of our water
Safe water is vital to human health, and that’s why a long-term collaboration between a University of Regina scientist and Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency (WSA) is important to the province.