Find out about the remarkable research achievements by our professors and their teams.

Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Professor Tom Woo with former PhD student Peter Boyd.
Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences

Reducing CO2 emissions with low cost carbon capture technology

Scientists and environmentalists around the world are alarmed by the increasing greenhouse gas emissions arising from human activity.
Physics
Professor Xiaoyi Bao and postdoctoral fellow Huibo Fan.
Physics

New fiber-optic devices for sensing applications

Professor Xiaoyi Bao’s research has many tangible applications in the area of infrastructure monitoring. With postdoctoral fellow Huibo Fan and collaborator Liang Chen, Prof. Bao recently completed an important study in which she overcame the detection limitations of fiber-optic sensors.
Earth and Environment Sciences
Professor Pascal Audet and PhD student Jeremy Gosselin.
Earth and Environment Sciences

Understanding the role of fluids during slow earthquakes

Over the last 20 years, scientists have discovered and characterized a new type of earthquake called slow earthquakes at subduction zones, where a tectonic plate slides underneath another one.
Biology
Binbin Tao, Kimberly Mitchell, Professors Wei Hu and Vance Trudeau.
Biology

Discovery of a novel sex hormone opens a new area of investigation in biology

While searching for the genes that are fundamental for an animal’s ability to reproduce, Professor Trudeau and his team discovered a new sex hormone.
Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Stacey R. Smith?
Mathematics and Statistics

Modeling COVID-19 infection and recovery

With the rapid amount of information published daily on the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of how to apply models in a rapidly evolving epidemic becomes paramount.