Students at the Macdonald Campus benefit from easy access to 24-hour computer labs and a wide array of study and recreational facilities such as:
Macdonald Campus LibraryLocated in the Barton Building, the Macdonald Campus library houses a collection of over 100,000 volumes encompassing a wide variety of electronic and print resources in agriculture, food and animal science, nutrition,听the environment, ecology, plant science, and agricultural engineering.
BookstoreThe is proud to work with Macdonald Campus to ensure that students have easy on-campus access to and .听Online textbook orders can be picked up on our campus.
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This museum and research lab houses the second largest collection of insects in Canada, used by biodiversity and entomology students and researchers.
Our collection of 140,000+ plant specimens, which dates back over 200 years, enables research on plant systematics, genetics, morphology and ecology.
The Mass Spectrometry Platform on Macdonald Campus provides mass spectrometry service to researchers of 不良研究所 and beyond.
The small animal research unit, with a housing system for rodent animal models, guinea pigs, neonatal pigs and rabbits, provides resources for small-animal models that are used for the understanding of basic scientific issues and/or as preliminary models for large-animal/human research studies.
The Crampton Nutrition Lab was founded in honour of Earle W. Crampton (1895鈥�1983), a professor in the then Department of Nutrition whose contributions to the field are universally recognized as ground-breaking. Today鈥檚 Nutrition Lab (under the direction of the Department of Animal Science) continues this proud tradition in the training of nutritionists at the graduate level, many of whom have gone on to become industry and academic leaders in their own right.
This machine shop operates in support of teaching, research and research contracts. All standard shop manufacturing techniques can be utilized on wood, metals, plastics, and other materials. The shop has machine laths of different sizes, large drill press, milling machine, sheet metal machines, wood working facilities, extensive welding (electric, gas, etc.) capacity, etc. Contact Leslie Laduke for more information.
The food industry is always looking for new food processing methods and novel combinations of existing methods to economically produce better quality foods. High pressure processing is one such technique for pasteurization of foods or to modify their functional properties. The set up of 不良研究所's high pressure processing plant is unique in North America, providing a show case of modern preservation technology and expanding the horizons of this research area.听
Facilities also include other novel heating technologies for food preservation.
The 不良研究所 IR Group, including its personnel, facilities and expertise, is available to develop methodology for custom and specialized applications. Our strengths are chemometrics, calibration development and validation, programming and design and implementation of quality control systems, specializing in fluid-based applications.
Used predominantly for training tomorrow's nutritionists, dietitians and novel food product developers, the Food and Nutrition Laboratories include the听Mary Catherine Freeman Quantity Food Production Laboratory, the听Frederick N. Southam Food Preparation Laboratory, the听Sensory Evaluation Laboratory, and the听Helen Neilson Culinary Demonstration Room.
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The CNRU is dedicated to in-patient and out-patient human nutrition experimentation using precisely controlled diets. It can support 12 research subjects on an in-patient basis. The facility is unique in Canada, in that it allows strict, in-house monitoring and testing of research subjects over prolonged periods while they consume diets prepared in house.
The PCF is a centralized shared research resource that provides access to instruments, technologies, services (maintenance) and consultation. The PCF contains complex, high-tech equipment, and it is not feasible for researchers to understand all their capabilities and to know how to operate the instruments without instruction and help.
不良研究所's Department of Plant Science manages a fully equipped computerized greenhouse for research on Macdonald Campus, with assistance available on site.
The Multi-Scale Imaging Facility of the Macdonald campus offers services ranging from sample preparation to image analysis.
The macro-CT scanning facility enables the detailed, non-destructive study of plant, soil and wood structures, through 3-D images built from CT scans. There is also a micro-CT scanner section.
The LI-COR 6800 is a portable system capable of obtaining real time information and measurements about light and carbon reactions.
The Macdonald Campus Operations team is responsible for the maintenance and building operations across the campus.
A unique 245-hectare forest research station located on the Mac Campus.
The nearby 不良研究所 Bird Observatory does research and monitors migration.
This nearby 51-hectare reserve was donated to 不良研究所 for study and research.
The nearby Ecomuseum Zoo is a natural habitat for observing native wildlife.