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July 07, 2021 By Diane Mar-Nicolle Grassroots activism has been a trademark of SFU since its inception in the turbulent 60’s, and a group of graduate students are carrying on the tradition with the establishment of a student-initiated Indigenous and Black scholarship for graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences. Ranah Chavoshi, an MSc candidate in biology says that the scholarship was the brain child of her department’s Graduate Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, of which she is a member. Formed in 2019, the committee is comprised of diverse stu...

 E-Mail The Amazon rainforest may be a hotspot for animal and plant diversity, but this week, scientists report that new species actually form there less often than previously thought. Places like deserts and mountaintops that do not have a lot of species provide more opportunity for rapid diversification. This paradox of diversity - that new species form at a faster pace in "cold spots" than hotspots - was reported this week in the journal Science. A multinational team of scientists studied diversity in a major group of tropical birds and they found that although coldspots might be extrem...