Biology and Chemistry

Anyone wishing to qualify as a Wetland Evaluator in Ontario must take the Ontario Wetland Certificate Course (OWES) which is only available through Nipissing University. For years, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) had been holding their week-long OWES sessions in North Bay, owing to the tremendous quality and diversity of wetlands in the area.

A group of Biology students from Nipissing University recently got the chance to spend 10 days in western Newfoundland studying the impact of moose foraging behaviour on the ability of forests to naturally regenerate following disturbance.

Researchers at Nipissing University have earned $707,506 in government grants to purchase state-of-the-art specialized equipment and construct the Human Evolution Laboratory.

Nipissing University alumna Laura Kielek-Caster (BSc Biology ’15) has written an article featured in the Orillia Packet and Times that urges readers to help protect pollinators.

If you plant it, they will come; “It” being milkweed, and “them” being monarch butterflies. The work of some Nipissing University students, as previously reported in NU News, to conserve Monarch Butterflies while simultaneously transforming a former dump site, is already showing some results.