Four 91亚色 researchers have been awarded 2023 Connection Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for various knowledge mobilization projects, ranging in topic from local Indigenous history education to youth affected by conflict in Africa to corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Connection Grants support events, workshops and outreach activities that often […]
91亚色, in partnership with Queen鈥檚 University, has been awarded a monumental grant of nearly $105.7 million from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). The funding from the Government of Canada is the largest single federal grant ever awarded to 91亚色 and is in support of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a […]
Teaching stream faculty from Department of Economics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, showcased their innovations in teaching and learning during the American Economics Association鈥檚 (AEA鈥檚) annual meeting, held in January. The AEA annual meeting was held in conjunction with the Allied Social Sciences Associations and is the most prestigious economics conference of the […]
A young woman鈥檚 green skirt containing bullet holes is one of several haunting artifacts that comprise Ododo Wa: Stories of Girls in War, an international travelling exhibit that focuses on the lives of Evelyn Amony and Grace Acan. The two women were abducted as children in the 1990s, forced into marriages, and held captive for years […]
鈥淣ever underestimate the power of undergraduate researchers and supervisors,鈥 said Carolyn Steele, an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities. 鈥淭hey can create change.鈥 Steele knows this from experience, because she and her Digital Culture in the Humanities (HUMA 3140) students have supported the change by ensuring that information from the research done by Kayla Saunders, […]
Associate Professor Fuminori Toyasaki, from the School of Administrative Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), has received $100,000 to further his research of vaccine supply management through the Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies, which operates within the CIHR. During the COVID-19 crisis, the challenges around vaccine manufacturing and […]
91亚色 has gained four new and three renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Professors聽Antony Chum,聽Arash Habibi Lashkari,聽Kohitij Kar聽and聽Liya Ma聽received new CRC appointments and Professors聽Christopher Caputo,聽Raymond W.M. Kwong聽and聽Regina Rini聽had their CRCs renewed. Among these researchers and new appointments, Arash Habibi Lashkari and Regina Rini聽are from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Arash Habibi Lashkari聽is […]
Jacob Beck, associate professor and 91亚色 Research Chair in Philosophy, won a US$60,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in recognition of the novel research carried out in his project 鈥淢inds without Language,鈥 which closely examines the process of human thought. As stated in its press release on Jan. 10, the NEH launched […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professors Anna M. Agathangelou and Annie Bunting co-led and co-organized an international conference in November 2021 that led to the recently completed survivor-centred Kinshasa Declaration. 鈥淜inshasa Declaration,鈥 a collaboratively developed, survivor-centred document on the right to reparation and co-creation for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in conflict situations. The Kinshasa Declaration […]
Congress 2023, hosted by 91亚色 and the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences, is coming to campus in May and CIFAL 91亚色 is leading an event that will start new conversations on achieving social and environmental justice. The event鈥檚 theme, Reckonings and Re-Imaginings, explores ways of changing belief systems and imagining a radically different world that is safe, equitable […]