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Dr. Cynthia (Cindy) Ross Friedman is a full professor in Biological Sciences at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cindy Ross's Home Page )〕 She is a popular professor and respected researcher, holding national grants, having been inducted into the inaugural cohort of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Royal Society Names Ross Friedman To Inaugural Group - Newsroom )〕 and being awarded both a Teaching Excellence and Research Excellence Award at her institution. Her research group showed—in a ''Nature Communications'' paper—that the parasitic flowering plant ''Arceuthobium americanum'' (Lodegpole pine dwarf mistletoe) undergoes thermogenesis (internal heat generation) to explosively-discharge its seeds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thermogenesis-triggered seed dispersal in dwarf mistletoe )〕 She has been on national radio and television in many instances not only to discuss her team's research,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cell-phone Conversations Annoying, Distracting * Heat Triggers Dwarf Mistletoe * New Telescope Reveals Early Star Formation * Rhino Beetle Is a Freaky Flyer * Penguins Can Get Colder Than Cold * How Sauropod Dinosaurs Held Their Heads )〕 but also to act as a spokesperson for a coalition of concerned community groups opposed to the proposed KGHM Ajax mine,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kamloops' review of Ajax mine criticized by opponents )〕 a copper-gold open-pit mine project proposed to be located within 1 km of the Kamloops' city boundary. She is an outspoken opponent of the proposed mine. Dr. Ross Friedman is also an accomplished musician who currently plays in a local Latin ensemble, "Caliente",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Caliente )〕 but has also played in rock bands and as a solo singer-songwriter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Caliente: One Hot Band! )〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cynthia Ross Friedman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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