Kieran Guimond

Mar 24, 2024 | thestrand.ca | Kieran Guimond

At some point over the past year, I have become a ‘bird guy.’ I’m still slightly confused about how this has happened (definitely not because I have asked my friends to be quiet so I can listen to a bird call and try to identify it, why would you assume that???). And over the past year, I have realised that there are some birds that are just plain sexy. Without further ado, I give you an aspiring ornithologist’s opinion on which birds are the sexiest.

Mar 24, 2024 | thestrand.ca | Kieran Guimond

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Samuel Dumas: I’m in my third year, and my major is mathematics. What is your research? My research focuses primarily on invertebrate biodiversity. It’s a project in urban ecology and I’m working with the stormwater ponds in Brampton. What’s really cool about them is that they’re important water structures that also happen to sustain a lot of biodiversity.

Feb 29, 2024 | thestrand.ca | Kieran Guimond

My name has never felt more                                                        minethan when you’re whispering it tome in the warmth of your arms. I hear the words echoing through my mindacross a field of wheat                                          seedlings, recently plantedit’s green, still growingnot yet ready to be shared with the world. The field of possibilities                                              and you and I,in this universe that we are creatingjust for ourselves.

Feb 29, 2024 | thestrand.ca | Kieran Guimond

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Jackson Leslie: I’m in my fourth year. I specialize in Neuroscience, and I do a major in Fundamental Genetics. What is your research? Right now, I am doing research in Dr. McLaurin’s lab at Sunnybrook. My project looks at combinatorial therapies for Alzheimer’s disease—we work with Alzheimer’s rats, and we’re looking at combined therapies to see if we see amelioration of beta amyloid.

Feb 7, 2024 | thestrand.ca | Kieran Guimond

The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Emilie Nero: My name is Emilie Nero. I am in fourth year now, and I’m doing a double major in Biology and Health and Disease. What is your research? We’ve all heard of microplastics and how they’re getting into very weird matrices. We’ve heard they’ve been getting into breast milk and blood and all that stuff, but they can also reside in really weird locations, like remote areas such as the Arctic.