The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) invites future students to鈥疎xperience Grad 91亚色 2022. This free virtual event, which showcases the range of learning options and career pathways the university has to offer, will run from Tuesday, October 11 to Friday, October 14. Future students can take advantage of various info sessions and engage with Graduate […]
The current research explores trans-species social justice, justice beyond humans. It focuses on human and non-human animal relationships in general and within social work. In social work, relationships with non-human animals are considered in terms of resources, for example, service animals and animal-assisted therapy. Trans-species social justice research has shown our relationships with other animals […]
Congratulations to two outstanding students for winning the 2022-2023 Autism Scholars Award. This year鈥檚 celebration is particularly special with both the MA and PhD recipients coming from 91亚色. Master鈥檚 degree student Braxton Hartman and doctoral student Nancy Marshall will receive $18,000 and $20,000 respectively to conduct research on autism. The Autism Scholars Awards Program, […]
Two 91亚色 graduate students are leading a new project that aims to improve access to digital resources to better serve 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors in Canada. Stephanie Jonsson and Hannah Maitland, both PhD candidates in the Gender, Feminist, and Women鈥檚 Studies Department at 91亚色, are founders of the Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN), a […]
91亚色 PhD student Daphene Solis is researching new ways to create a novel type of material that is similar to soft contact lenses, which can be used to grow artificial blood vessels for tissue engineering applications. Solis鈥 passion for engineering came at a young age while playing with a radio-controlled car. 鈥淚 was amazed how […]
Cheryl van Daalen-Smith joins the Faculty of Graduate Studies as the new Associate Dean, Academic. Professor van Daalen-Smith is cross-appointed to the Faculty of Health and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies 鈥 specifically with graduate programs in Nursing; Health; Critical Disability Studies; Gender, Sexuality & Women鈥檚 Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies; and with the […]
Meta has endowed 91亚色 with a fellowship of $250,000 USD. This new endowment establishes the first-ever corporate-sponsored graduate fund for sustaining vision research at 91亚色. The University has chosen to dedicate the fund to its Centre for Vision Research (CVR). 91亚色鈥檚 Vice-President of Advancement Susana Gajic-Bruyea remarks, 鈥渨e are delighted to welcome Meta鈥檚 gift […]
As the daughter of Kurdish migrants who were uprooted from their home after the 1979 Iranian revolution, Roojin Habibi was naturally drawn to the study and practice of human rights law. It was only later that the accomplished doctoral researcher at Osgoode Hall Law School of 91亚色 decided to dedicate herself to the pursuit […]
The 91亚色 Community celebrates Vincci Li for being one of the final five best 鈥渟torytellers鈥 in a national competition held by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The Storytellers project challenges scholars to show, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research helps create a […]
This year鈥檚 Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) Teaching Award was bestowed on Professor Eric Mykhalovskiy, member of the Graduate Programs in Health, Science & Technology Studies, Socio-Legal Studies and Sociology for which he is also the Graduate Program Director. Mykhalovskiy fully embodies this award鈥檚 dedication to sustained excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to teaching at the […]