https://www.wired.com/story/colonies-of-aggressive-social-spiders-boom-after-a-hurricane/

Nikol Piskuric of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour has been selected as a 2019 winner of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance award for teaching excellence.  This award is granted to educators who excel at unlocking the potential of Ontario’s young people.

Reuven Dukas of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Exemplar Career Award from the Animal Behavior Society.  This award is granted to a researcher who has made a major long-term contribution to the study of animal behavior.

On May 24-25, 2019, high school students from across Canada came to McMaster University to compete for the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee championship. This competition tests knowledge of neuroscience and skills at patient diagnosis and neuroanatomy.  Competitors represented local brain bees from across Canada: Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London, Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, and Newfoundland. The winner of this year's competition is Jenny Sun from the Edmonton Brain Bee. Congratulations Jenny!  Jenny will represent Canada at the International Brain Bee in September in Daegu, South Korea. 

 
Link:  https://brainbee.ca