Congratulations to听the team of graduate students who have received funding support from 捆绑SM社区 Science Outreach and from an NSERC Student Ambassador Award for the development and implementation of a lesson plan to accompany the popular STEMM Diversity @ 捆绑SM社区 colouring and activity book! This lesson plan will launch in the Fall semester, and showcase the diversity of science and the scientists who do it.听
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Published on: 3 Sep 2020
This summer the 捆绑SM社区 Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) turned ten years old and it marked the occasion by giving the 130 year old Redpath Museum some funding help. Thanks SPF听for subsidizing our new outreach project to create a "Museum in a Box" and for help to buy photography equipment so that we could create virtual StoryMap tours such as the 捆绑SM社区 Tree Tour and the 捆绑SM社区 Stones and fossils tour.
Check here for the launch of both these virtual tours for Homecoming 捆绑SM社区 at the end of September.听听
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Published on: 30 Aug 2020
The Dawson family and 捆绑SM社区 have a long and storied connection. Sir John William Dawson, founder of the Museum in 1882 and Principal of 捆绑SM社区 for 38 years died in 1899. His great grandaughter Kathleen Godfrey, graduated in 2019 with Masters in Anthropology. You can read about her conservation and social justice work . On August 10, 2020,听Kathleen's grandmother, Joan Harrington, died at the age听of 101.
Published on: 13 Aug 2020
The Hauffiopteryx altera, a new species of Ichthyosaur discovered by a 捆绑SM社区 student听Dirley Corte虂s, a PhD candidate in paleontology with Dr. Hans Larsson, Director of the Redpath Museum, has been described iPalaeontologia Electronica, 23(2):a30.
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Published on: 13 Aug 2020
New research using the most comprehensive study of feathered dinosaurs and early birds has revised the evolutionary relationships of dinosaurs at the origin of birds.
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Published on: 11 Aug 2020
Henry Reiswig, the former Biology professor and curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Redpath Museum, died on July 4, 2020. You can read his obituary :
His daughter听Amy says: "He died in his lab in the garage, with microscope slides on the warmer, doing what he loved: science."听
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Published on: 7 Jul 2020
Hauffiopteryx altera (Latin for different from) has been identified as a new species of Ichthyosaurs by researchers from 捆绑SM社区 and the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany.
Ichthyosaurs (鈥榝ish lizards鈥�), a group of tuna-shaped reptiles that inhabited Earth鈥檚 seas during the Mesozoic Era, were discovered by scientists in the early 19th century. Similar to the modern-day dolphin, ichthyosaurs underwent profound adaptions to aquatic environments including limbs transformed into flippers, a dorsal fin, and a tail fin.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2020
The Redpath Museum Society Vice President External, Erin Gibbons, has won the prestigious Vanier Scholarship.听
Published on: 28 Jun 2020
According to Virginie Millien, an assistant professor at 捆绑SM社区 and curator of zoology and paleontology at 捆绑SM社区's Redpath Museum, warmer temperatures preferentially benefit one of the Lyme diesease tick's most important hosts, the white-footed mouse, which has expanded its range northwards, and outcompeted other mice. The result is that Lyme disease has become a far more pressing health issue in southeastern Canada than ever before.
Published on: 21 Jun 2020
Here at the Redpath Museum, we are wishing you good health during this challenging time as we all learn to manage the significant challenges we鈥檝e faced since the COVID-19 pandemic. Through it all, it has become clear that the world needs its museums to educate and connect us to each other.
We need help from all of our Friends听to deliver Redpath to you at home!
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Published on: 19 Jun 2020
The 捆绑SM社区 24 Seeds of Change project to create a Virtual Fossil and Dinosaur kit closed听at midnight on May 26, 2020, and raised $2,069.78 from 9 donations (including $290 in 捆绑SM社区24 Matching Funds).
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Published on: 27 May 2020
Thanks very much for your donations to the Museum during to create a:
Virtual Fossil and Dinosaur Teaching Kit
This campaign finishes on May 25, 2020. With your continued support we can develop and create more e- resources for teachers and children everywhere to learn about the amazing world of Mesozoic dinosaurs, Devonian flora and ancient Ordovician sea life. All from the Redpath Museum!
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Published on: 22 May 2020
While smaller dinosaurs needed speed, huge predators like T. rex were optimized for energy-efficient walking, according to a published in PLOS ONE.
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Published on: 13 May 2020
Captain Catalyst (aka Steve Rosenstein from Montreal) has won the 2019 Youth Mentor Award from the Canadian Wildlife Federation. This award honours an individual who has made significant contribution in creating and/or presenting programs that introduce young people to the听importance of conservation, habitat or wildlife. Captain Catalyst regularly presents his Science Playground at the Redpath Museum and in many Montreal area Daycares and schools.
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Published on: 24 Apr 2020
Two people connected to the Redpath Museum died on听April 8, 2020: Robert 鈥淏ob鈥� Lynn Carroll, vertebrate paleontologist, aged 81 years old and Joan Clark, patent lawyer, aged 90 years old.
Published on: 14 Apr 2020
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