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Willis Lab in the News

Craig interviewed for Global TV for managing wildlife diseases and COVID-19.

Craig interviewed for CJOB with Sam Thmopson about bats gaining negative press due to COVID-19.

Craig talks with Bartley Kives on CBC Manitoba News Online about limiting the handling of wild bats amidst COVID-19 pandemic to prevent the possible transmission to bats.

Craig talks with Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC's '
The Current' about the discovery of WNS in Washington State

Kaleigh speaks with the CBC about the Heated Bat Box project to test the potential benefits of summer habitat protection and enhancement as a way to help bats recover from WNS.

Craig interviewed for
Globe and Mail article about discovery of WNS in Washington State

ShawTV Go
visits the lab to hear about our work from Craig.

​​A selection of media reports about the Neighbourhood Bat Watch:

    - Winnipeg Free Press "Bat fans to the rescue"
    - CBC web feature and 5 minute radio documentary "White-Nose Syndrome: the fight to save bats heats up"
     - Ottawa Citizen “Bat watchers wanted as scientists track spread of deadly fungus”  
    - TVOntario “Bats are in big trouble and it could affect Ontario’s food supply”
    - London Free Press "Ontarians asked to report on bat colonies"

Craig talks to 'Superior Morning' on CBC Thunder Bay, 11 November 2014. Listen here and read here.

Nothing spooky about Winnipeg bat lab. CBC Manitoba features the bat lab for Halloween 2014.


Mary-Anne Collis is featured in the December 2013 issue of the Gradzette.

Some of the media reports about the publication of Luis et al. (2013)
    - Live Science
    - Community Radio for Northern Colorado (NPR)
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Some of the media reports about the publication of Warnecke et al. (2012)
    - Jamie Turner and David Blehert speak with New York Public Radio
    - The Guardian (UK)
    - The Toronto Star


Winnipeg Free Press. February 11 2012 
    - Baffled biologists scramble to unlock secrets of disease killing millions of hibernating bats

 
Some of the media reports about the publication of Boyles and Willis (2010)
    - L.A. Times 
    - USA Today
    - CBC News 


Dr. Craig K. R. Willis
Professor of Biology, University of Winnipeg
Phone: (204) 786-9433
Email