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More 91��ɫ experts available for Olympics commentary

Posted on 9 August 2024

91��ɫ alumnae Melissa Humaña-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson compete for gold in Paris today, a first for beach volleyball for Canada, cheered on by Humaña-Paredes' father, three-time Olympic coach and 91��ɫ Professor Hernán Humaña who teaches a course on the history of the Olympics and is available for comment to media. Also this week in Paris, breaking makes its debut at the Games, Olympians get sick with bacterial infection and organizers revise the closing ceremony of the Games this Sunday after a controversial opening. 91��ɫ experts are available to comment on this and more.

91��ɫ experts have got you covered for Paris Olympics

Posted on 26 July 2024

While the Olympics are a show of international friendship and athletic excellence, they are also about politics and diplomacy, tourism, social change and spectacle, and sometimes even espionage. 91��ɫ experts are available to give comment to media on everything from nationalism in sport and why the economic pressures on athletes are getting even worse, to branding and tourism opportunities, the evolution of women’s basketball in Canada and how large sporting events intersect with sex tourism and displacement of low-income people, and more.

SSHRC announces nearly $10M for 91��ɫ U researchers in Partnership Grants

Posted on 29 August 2023

Four researchers in areas covering Indigenous sovereignty to international ecological issues impacting the society will receive nearly $2.5M each

Justice Fund announces gift to 91��ɫ U for Black & Indigenous students’ arts education

Posted on 9 August 2023

The announcement of $100,000 Justice Fund Bursaries to the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design was made during Justice Fund Summit “Lover of Humanity” in Toronto

Grand finale: high-school student ensembles to showcase musical talent honed at 91��ɫ U summer camp

Posted on 27 July 2023

Budding musicians who had a weeklong, rare opportunity to learn under the tutelage of award-winning faculty members will perform with peers at a celebratory event

91��ɫ U’s music department offers high school students an exclusive opportunity to study under jazz greats

Posted on 18 July 2023

Fifty high school students will have the rare opportunity of learning from Juno-winning artists at 91��ɫ’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD), thanks to a donation from the Nick Nurse Foundation, July 24-28

91��ɫ U’s interdisciplinary capstone team receives award for innovative teaching

Posted on 9 June 2023

The D2L Innovation Award honours the leadership team for its innovative approach to promoting student-centred teaching and learning in post-secondary education 91��ɫ’s Cross Campus Capstone Course (C4) program, which bridges the gap between classroom education and hands-on problem solving through interdisciplinary experiential education, has won a major award for innovation in teaching. This is […]

Concert to celebrate Canadian Jewish composers spanning 115 years

Posted on 22 March 2023

TORONTO, March 22, 2023 – 91��ɫ’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and the Department of Music will present a chamber music recital on Thursday at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Keele Campus. This free recital will celebrate Canadian Jewish composers spanning 115 years as part of the performance and lecture series “Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @ […]

Drumroll… jazz virtuoso Terri Lyne Carrington this year’s Oscar Peterson Artist-in-Residence at 91��ɫ

Posted on 3 February 2023

Grammy-winning drummer and educator to offer masterclasses, public performances and workshops geared at mentoring students who will be the future of jazz

2022 YEAR IN REVIEW: 91��ɫ breaks ground on the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery

Posted on 3 January 2023

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