2011

Oct 29: Brandon Aubie wins the Titley Scientific Award for his talk at the North American Symposium for Bat Research.  Congratulations!
May 11: Riziq Sayegh awarded an OGS scholarship for 2011-2012.  Congratulations!
January 22: Riziq and Brandon publish first Bat Lab electrophysiology paper in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A.  Congratulations!
January 1: PhD candidate Joel Jameson joins the McMaster Bat Lab.

2010

May 3: Brandon Aubie passes his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!
April 26: Riziq Sayegh passes his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!
March 19: Heather Mayberry awarded a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGSM). Congratulations!
February 3: Monica Sobala-Drozdowski awarded Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) from NSERC. Congratulations!
January 24: Veselka et al. (2010) advanced online publication in Nature.

2009

November 21: Brandon Aubie gets married!
September 6: MSc candidate Heather Mayberry joins the McMaster Bat Lab.
July 22: Brandon Aubie publishes first Bat Lab paper in The Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations!
April 1: Brandon Aubie awarded a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGSD2). Congratulations!
March 12: Heather Mayberry awarded Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) from NSERC. Congratulations!
January 20: Paul Faure and R#36 appear on the "The Rick Mercer Report", (CBC Television).

2008

August 3: Riziq Sayegh breaks his collarbone in a motorcycle accident.
June 25: Brandon Aubie and Riziq Sayegh promoted to PhD program.
June 11: Suganth Suppiah awarded both Dr. Sina Sazgar Memorial Scholarship
and the Herbert A. Ricker Scholarship for outstanding academic performance.
May 15: former Batlab member Navid Khezri admitted to undergraduate medical  program at University of Toronto.
February 28: Heather Mayberry awarded Undergraduate Summer Research Award
(USRA) from NSERC. Congratulations!

2007

December 12: Paul Faure and R#36 appear on the Jon Dore Television Show
(Comedy Network).
November 1: Brandon Aubie awarded a NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Award
(PGS-M). Congratulations!
September 6: MSc candidates Brandon Aubie and Riziq Sayegh join the McMaster
Bat Lab.
August 29: Marie Gadziola receives the Abe Black Memorial Prize for the best
undergraduate Honors Thesis (Faculty of Science) in the Department of Psychology,
Neuroscience & Behaviour.
July 22: Paul Faure, Niki Efantis and Marie Gadziola present at the International
Congress of Neuroethology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
March 30: Faraz Ahmadpour completes the first draft of Bat Lab web site.
March 27: Marie Gadziola presents her Honors Thesis research at the Psychology,
Neuroscience & Behaviour poster day.
March 17: Marie Gadziola presents her Honors Thesis research at Ontario Biology
Day (McMaster University).

2006

December 15: Niki Efantis presents her Bat Lab Matlab design project to Elec Eng
4J03.
October 30: Paul Faure presents a Science In The City lecture at the Hamilton
Spectator; click here.
October 29: Paul Faure has interview with Jeff Goodes on CBC's Fresh Air.
October 23: CH TV broadcasts live from the McMaster Bat Lab.
September 7: MSc candidate Joshua Shipp joins the McMaster Bat Lab.
March 28: Navid Khezri awarded Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA)
from NSERC. Congratulations!