It is with great pleasure that the AAMS announces the winner of this year's l'Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois (AAMS) 2022 Bursary, Haley Chiasson!

Haley Chiasson is this year's winner of the AAMS Marie Rundquist honorary bursary, in the amount of $500.00. Haley will be attending Acadia University in the Fall, where she plans to attain a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Congratulations, Haley!

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Link to: CBU University. (2022, February 18). "Augustine Named Executive Director of Marshall Institute: For more than 40 years, Cape Breton University has worked to nurture and build strong and meaningful relationships within Indigenous communities." https://www.cbu.ca/newsroom/releases/cbus-stephen-augustine-named-executive-director-of-marshall-institute/

The need to serve the world's increasing demands for food by growing nutrition-rich vegetables in areas where salty water is a problem has been met by traditional and novel approaches as discussed in the following open-access articles, published centuries apart:

Malcolm, C V. and Smith, S. T. (1971) "Growing plants with salty water," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 12 : No. 2 , Article 5.
Available at: https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4/vol12/iss2/5

Behera, T. K., Krishna, R., Ansari, W. A., Aamir, M., Kumar, P., Kashyap, S. P., Pandey, S., & Kole, C. (2022). Approaches Involved in the Vegetable Crops Salt Stress Tolerance Improvement: Present Status and Way Ahead. Frontiers in plant science, 12, 787292. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.787292

Link to: Robichaud, P.P., Allain, E.P., Belbraouet, S. et al. "Pathogenic variants carrier screening in New Brunswick: Acadians reveal high carrier frequency for multiple genetic disorders." BMC Med Genomics 15, 98 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-022-01249-1