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Nelson Institute students participate in global study on urban environmental change and adaptation

Nelson Institute students and researchers participated in a global study investigating the impact of urbanization on biological evolution. This novel study led by James Santangelo, Marc Johnson, and Rob Ness at the University of Toronto, used social media to develop a network of international collaborators who examined the cyanide defense mechanism in white clover samples …

Badgering: Alvin Thomas

“Beaches all around, beautiful skies, beautiful food, just beautiful people.” That’s how Alvin Thomas describes his home island of Saint Lucia, located in the Caribbean. But it was the people, and the not-so-idyllic social and economic issues they faced, that inspired Thomas to pursue psychology. He wanted to find ways to support people “who were …