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VIU Biology Graduate Sets Her Sights on Protection the Environment

While at VIU, Barrett has been studying the genetic diversity of wild and captive Vancouver Island marmots–the most endangered mammal in Canada... she won a VIU REACH award for her Biology 491 independent research project and was also awarded a competitive Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) from the Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to work in the VIU lab to expand her research. Read more...