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The big bang theory was all about the origin of time and space. This theory describes the energy around Mount Royal’s new Science and Technology expansion.
With our new space, students have access to cutting-edge equipment in teaching labs and student resource centres dedicated to teaching and learning in the areas of chemistry, biology, and earth sciences. Our personalized learning approach allows students to spend more time learning with the experts—their faculty.
We invite you to join us in exploring this new space, and learn more about the faculty who are leading the way to learning in a new century.
Video Tour - Science and Technology Expansion
Grand Opening of the Science & Technology Learning Labs and Resource Hall
Join Us, November 9 at 10 a.m.
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Our Experts – Science and Technology Faculty
 Carol Armstrong, PhD Assistant Professor Department: carmstrong@mtroyal.ca | Dr. Carol Armstrong holds a PhD in Neuroscience and a B.Sc, with Honours from the University of Calgary as well as a M.Sc. in Anatomy & Neurobiology from Dalhousie University. Her current research on cerebellar development has the potential to contribute to our understanding of brain development while engaging students at MRU in primary scientific research. She has taught at Mount Royal University, University of Guelph and the University of Calgary and holds an extensive list of mentoring experience with various graduate and undergraduate students. |
Department: tday@mtroyal.ca Find out more about: | Dr. Trevor Day first developed his interest in cardiorespiratory physiology as a lifeguard and CPR instructor, and then later through his early career as an Emergency Medical Technician. Once he left the sleep-depriving shift work of EMS and entered an undergraduate program in neuropsychology, he started studying the effects of environmental stresses like hypoxia on the brain and behavior. He soon refined his research to the neural control of breathing and respiratory chemosensitivity and the implications of this feedback system on breathing instability during sleep. After completing his PhD at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine in respiratory neurobiology (2007), Dr. Day joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences at Mount Royal University where he currently teaches undergraduate courses in basic and applied physiology. |
Trevor Day, PhD
Faculty of Science and Technology jgoldberg@mtroyal.ca Find out more about: | Dr. Goldberg's research has examined the neurobiological basis of several biological processes using mollusks such as snails and slugs as model organisms. These animals have giant identifiable nerve cells and relatively simple nervous systems that make them well suited for experimental analysis. Early in his career, he studied the neurophysiological mechanisms of learning and memory in sea slugs. More recently, Dr. Goldberg studied nerve growth, neural circuit formation and metabolic adaptations in pond snails, with emphasis on the expression and function of the neurotransmitter serotonin during embryonic development. |
Jeff Goldberg, PhD
pajohnston@mtroyal.ca Find out more about: | Dr. Johnston holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (1986). He joined the faculty in the Earth Sciences Department at Mount Royal in 2004. Before then he had been the Curator of Invertebrates at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller for nearly 20 years. Dr. Johnston’s research focuses on the evolution of bivalve mollusks (clams, oysters, and scallops), and on animal communities associated with fluids discharged from the sea floor at ancient hydrothermal vents and seeps. He and his research team recently advanced a new hypothesis that Canada’s famous half-billion year old Burgess Shale fossils represent ancient seafloor brine-seep communities. His research has taken him to diverse regions of the planet including remote areas of the Rocky Mountains, Arctic Canada, Patagonia, the Gobi Desert, Australia, and the Philippines. Dr. Johnston teaches undergraduate courses in geology and paleontology and is currently co-editor of Palaeontographica Canadiana, Canada’s national monograph series on paleontological research. |
Paul A. Johnston, PhD
Department: pthangarajah@mtroyal.ca | Pamini Thangarajah, PhD is collaborating with Dr. Kalinga Jagoda from Bissett School of Business in solving operational management problems quantitatively, by creating mathematical models. Her projects examine application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Revenue Management Models for measuring and improving productivity. She also has the distinction of working on solving mathematical problems involving classical invariant theory, algebraic geometry and their applications in different academic fields. Recently two of her invited papers were accepted for presentation at Computational Mathematics, Computational Geometry and Statistics conference in Singapore to be held in Jan 2012. |
Brittany Williamson | Brittany Williamson’s exposure to plant mutants (with a little help from one of her professors, David Bird, PhD) has cultivated a lasting desire to work in research. Learn More: See other research projects at Mount Royal University. |
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