Congratulations to lab member Amina Allalou on being awarded a prestigious NSERC USRA fellowship! Amina will undertake her project in the Welch lab this coming summer.

Congratulations to lab member and MSc student Chris Chen on being named a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award winner! From the UTSC press release: “The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards were established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) and the Division of University Advancement in order to recognize students who have […]

Dr. Welch was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant! This funding will help the Welch lab expand an ongoing project at the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Joker’s Hill.

Congratulations to lab members Amina Allalou and Prateek Sehgal for begin named to the UTSC Honours List. Amina and Prateek will be honoured at the Academic Awards Night, Nov. 22 at 7 PM in the Meeting Place.

Dr. Welch will be presenting a talk titled, “Exploring animal energetics at the extremes” as part of the New Frontiers Seminar Series at UT Scarborough (Room AA160) from 12-1PM.

Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph.

New lab publication: “The power of feeder-mask respirometry as a method for examining hummingbird energetics” in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology.

Dept. of Biology at McMaster University on February 9th, 2010.

Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Dept. of Biology at UWO on February 5th, 2010.

Dr. Welch appeared in a recent episode of Nature on PBS. The documentary featured research techniques Dr. Welch helped to pioneer when working in the lab of Dr. Douglas Altshuler at the University of California, Riverside. See the whole episode here. Watch Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air on PBS. See more from Nature.