Photo from U de Montréal lab makes the cover of popular science magazine

By Léo Charbonneau. It was late September when Jacques Brodeur heard from freelance photographer Anand Varma that one of the photos he’d taken in Dr. Brodeur’s lab was going to be on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s November issue. “But there was an embargo on the photo and it wasn’t until the end of October when I got a copy of the magazine that I could finally see it. It was magnificent! And the lighting! I was flabbergasted.” Dr. Brodeur, an entomologist and professor in the biological sciences department at Université de Montréal, says it was a proud moment for him: he grew up reading National Geographic since his parents had a subscription. More...