April 13th, 2012

Congratulations to MSc student Derrick Groom on being awarded an American Museum of Natural History Frank M. Chapman Research Grant. These research funds will support Derrick's field-based research on the evolution of fatty acid metabolism in hummingbirds taking place in Brazil in summer 2012.

April 5th, 2012

Congratulations to MSc student Derrick Groom on being awarded a prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship! This funding will support Derrick as he continues his MSc thesis work.

April 3rd, 2012

Drs. Welch, Boonstra, McGowan, and Weir were awarded an NSERC RTI that will support the purchase and installation of an "Environmental chamber for the study of wild-caught mammals and birds".

April 2nd, 2012

Congratulations to incoming PhD student Brandy Velten on being awarded one of a handful of prestigious Ontario Trilliam Scholarships! Brandy will be joining the lab in fall 2012.

March 12th, 2012

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.

March 6th, 2012

Congratulations to lab member and MSc student Chris Chen on being named a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award winner!

January 10th, 2012

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.

November 22, 2010

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.

November 11, 2010

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.

November 9, 2010

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

August 14, 2010

New lab publication: "The power of feeder-mask respirometry as a method for examining hummingbird energetics" in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A.

June 30, 2010

New lab publcation: "Neuromuscular control of wingbeat kinematics in Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna)" in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

June 30-July 3, 2010

Dr. Welch will attend the 2010 Society for Experimental Biology annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.

June 2, 2010

The recent success enjoyed by Dr. Welch and other UTSC researchers in securing research funding was highlighted in this press release. Congratulations to the many excellent UTSC researchers.

May 17-21, 2010

Dr. Welch will attend the 2010 Canadian Society of Zoologists meeting on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

May 11, 2010

All our excellent UTSC undergraduate researchers are encouraged to apply to the Rising Stars of Research poster competition here.

May 5, 2010

UTSC Staff Photo- grapher Ken Jones won 2nd place in the March 2010 University Photographer's Association of America Monthly Image Competition for his photograph of one of the Welch Lab hummingbirds.

Apr. 27, 2010

Dr. Welch was awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation - Leadership Opportunity Fund grant.

Mar. 25, 2010

Dr. Welch was awarded a 5 year Discovery Grant from NSERC.

Mar. 3, 2010

Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Human Biology Course (HMB471H) at the UofT St. George Campus.

Feb. 9, 2010

Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Dept. of Biology at McMaster University.

Feb. 5, 2010

Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Dept. of Biology at UWO.

Jan. 10, 2010

Dr. Welch appeared in a recent episode of Nature on PBS. See the clip here.