CAMPUS: Students participate in Soup-er Science

Bringing together hungry students and cutting-edge researchers, five Soup and Science events over the last week served up everything from electronics to ecology research along with soup and sandwiches.

"The main purpose is to give students a chance to see how they can get involved," said event organizer Victor Chisholm, undergraduate research officer for the Faculty of Science. "McGill professors are always working on exciting research projects that offer a lot of opportunities."

Dean of Science Martin Grant explained that attendance has grown to the point that some students were turned away.

"The idea here is to give professors a chance to talk about their innovative work and a chance for students to listen, and to feed your stomach and your intellect," he said. "The event helps bring students and professors together. It makes opportunities for research seem more at reach and less intimidating."

The presentation in the auditorium at Redpath Museum last Thursday brought together five McGill professors ranging from the department of physiology to the department of atmospheric & oceanic sciences. Professors from each field were given three minutes to speak about their work to date.

Mathematics and statistics professor Keith Worsley began by explaining how his research in statistical analysis led him to investigate the relationship between brain imaging and astrophysics.

"It's important to continue studies in the maths," Worsley said. "I never would have thought that I'd get into studying neurology without going to medical school. Math built my strong foundation before I branched out. Events like Soup and Science can help students realize how different disciplines are interrelated."

Worsley's presentation showed images of the galaxies from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey, which he explained resemble the hemispheres of the human brain.

The problem of vitamin D deficiency in human physiology was discussed by Professor John White. He stated that Montreal was the epicentre of "vitamin D winters," where six months of inadequate ultraviolet light absorption lead to a variety of medical.

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When large body of vitamin D intake, the intestinal absorption of calcium and phosphorus increase in calcium concentration, that is involved in the regulation of calcitonin, calcium deposition in the bone and other organs and tissues, affecting their function: Calcium deposits in the kidney as can be a tubular necrosis and kidney calcification, a serious renal atrophy can occur, chronic renal damage calcium deposition in small bronchial and alveolar epithelial cells can be damaged respiratory tract, cause ulcers or a calcified lesions in the central nervous system, cardiovascular and other important Organ is a more calcified lesions, can cause serious irreversible damage.

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Early symptoms of anorexia, nausea, fatigue, irritability, fever, vomiting, constipation and weight stubborn decline, there will be severe seizures, high blood pressure, arrhythmia, Fan Jie, frequency, nocturia, and even dehydration acidosis. A protein in urine, red blood cells, such as type of change, then chronic renal failure.

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