Human Ecology professor Megan Strickfaden is curating a photography show entitled "In Focus." All of the artists featured are partially sighted or fully blind.

An article co-authored by John Kennelly, dean of the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta, calls for more public funding of agricultural research to stem concerns surrounding the imminent threat of food shortages.

A method to identify the number of cattle used in the production of ground beef batches could lead to quicker, less costly recalls of potentially contaminated products, a researcher has claimed. The process, which was developed at the University of Alberta in Canada, involves the extraction of DNA from individual muscle fibres in sample batches of ground beef.