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Page: A5, Section: News   A student under the supervision of a Vancouver Island University professor has gained national attention for his work for a sustainable prawn fishery. The focus of Brett Favaro’s studies, made in concert with VIU fisheries and aquaculture professor Stefanie Duff, is to reduce bycatch found in prawn traps to keep the […]

When Mackenzie Gray talks about the way Paul McCartney used a recursive sequence to make the song “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” seem to last forever, you realize that part of the Beatles’ phenomenal success might have sprung from McCartney’s genius as a mathematician. When Roger Kemp draws on a napkin to illustrate that […]