October 2008

Glen Armstrong	Researchers discover promising treatment for deadly E. coli strain Oct. 30, 2008 E. coli 0157 is currently linked to making more than 200 people sick in Ontario after they ate at a fast food restaurant.
Ed McCauley	Predicting boom and bust ecologies Oct. 30, 2008 While scholars may be a long way from predicting the ins and outs of the economy, University of Calgary biologist Edward McCauley and colleagues have uncovered fundamental rules that may govern population cycles in many natural systems.
Naweed Syed	Building on a Vision Oct. 29, 2008 Dr. Naweed Syed’s “brain on a chip” discovery is a major step towards integrating computers with human brains to help people control artificial limbs, monitor people’s vital signs, correct memory loss or impaired vision.
Garnette Sutherland	Making medical history Oct. 29, 2008 Dr. Garnette Sutherland was the first in the world to use a surgical robot to remove a complex brain tumour, using U of C expertise in neuroscience, robotics and medical imaging.
Michael Colicos	Mind + machine Oct. 29, 2008 Dr. Michael Colicos is using bio-computer technology to study autism, epilepsy, stroke and spinal cord injury. "We're susing living tissue with computers," says Colicos.
Darla Zelenitsky	T. rex “followed its nose” while hunting Oct. 29, 2008 Scientists at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum are providing new insight into the sense of smell of carnivorous dinosaurs and primitive birds. The study, by U of C paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky and Royal Tyrrell Museum curator of dinosaur palaeoecology François Therrien, is the first time that the sense of smell has been evaluated in prehistoric meat-eating dinosaurs.
Susan Skone	Revolutioninzing weather prediction Oct. 28, 2008 Canadians are no strangers to severe weather. Accurate and timely predictions of severe weather are crucial. Susan Skone, associate professor in geomatics engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering, is revolutionizing the collection of weather data.
David Proud	Common cold symptoms caused by immune system—not the cold virus Oct. 24, 2008 A University of Calgary scientist confirms that it is how our immune system responds, not the rhinovirus itself that causes cold symptoms. Of more than 100 different viruses that can cause the common cold, human rhinoviruses are the major cause.
	Innovators II Meet five of our young innovators. Researchers who are doing things differently and moving their products to the marketplace. Their multidisciplinary approach brings together the great minds of the University of Calgary to solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Rob Cardinal	Comet discovered Oct. 14, 2008 Comet named after U of C asteroid hunter Rob Cardinal. It is the first time a comet has been discovered at U of C’s Rothney Astrophysical Observatory and only the second Canadian discovery of a comet, using a Canadian telescope, in nearly a decade.
Cormac Gates	World’s mammals facing threats around the globe Oct. 3, 2008 Faculty of Environmental Design professor Cormack Gates is a co-author of a landmark study that details the challenges facing the world’s mammals.
Gilaad Kaplan	High levels of air pollution may increase the risk of appendicitis Oct. 3, 2008 “In developing countries appendicitis rarely occurs; however, as these nations become industrialized the incidence of appendicitis increases,” says Dr. Gilaad G. Kaplan, Faculty of Medicine.
	Canada's shores refuge for world’s earliest animals Oct. 2, 2008 U of C researchers solve mystery of massive global extinction event 252 million years ago.
Curtis Berlinguette	Bright future for solar power Oct. 1, 2008 Making solar panels that are as cheap and easy to install as paint or carpet may sound like a pipe dream. To U of C chemistry professor Curtis Berlinguette it is not only possible, it is one of the key steps in reducing humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels.

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