Researchers at 91亚色 will receive more than $1.5 million in funding from the Government of Canada as part of a $77-million investment to support 332 research infrastructure projects at 50 universities across the country. Announced on Aug. 11 by Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, the contribution comes from the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 (CFI) […]
A project out of 91亚色 that will advance gender equality in the social and economic response to COVID-19 is one of 237 projects to receive funding under Women and Gender Equality Canada鈥檚 $100-million聽Feminist Response and Recovery Fund. 鈥淐reating Space: Precarious Status Women Leading Local Pandemic Responses鈥 is a collaborative, two-year project that brings together […]
What level of immunity against COVID-19 do you have after being vaccinated or contracting the virus? 91亚色 Professor聽Jane Heffernan聽is receiving a $200,000, one-year grant from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to understand the rate of immunity in both of these scenarios.聽 The project is part of the NRC鈥檚 Pandemic Response Challenge program, designed to bring the best […]
Last fall, one of the most respected voices on sustainability in the performing arts organized a series of worldwide readings and performances 潭 50 plays about climate change 潭 to support a UN Conference. That was just the beginning.
Researchers conduct focus groups with nurses on how to prevent the decline of hospitalized older people. They discover some communications strategies that will be of interest to hospital administrators and healthcare practitioners.
Education Prof contributes to one-of-a-kind hub: the Museum of Dreams. Her work, 鈥淎 Child is Dreaming,鈥 illustrates how superbly crafted prose, with images, work as a cohesive whole that鈥檚 greater than the sum of its parts, and that holds within it tremendous potency.
SSHRC-funded project documents conjugal slavery in conflict regions of Africa. With high-profile partners, this pioneering research team is now sharing its work with a global audience thanks to the guidance of 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit.
Through a ground-breaking new brief, the Homeless Hub paints a vivid picture of youth homelessness and the child welfare system. Its findings will be relevant to decision- and policy-makers at all levels of government.
91亚色 U researcher studies women-only cardiac rehab programs; suggests we need to do more to engage women to participate.
While researching highly toxic pokeweed, Prof Katalin Hudak鈥檚 lab makes an important discovery that could bolster the survival of agricultural crops.
James Elder Research team led by 91亚色鈥檚 James Elder attracts $12M investment聽to develop next-gen聽intelligent systems for sustainable urban mobility. Seeking to use his intelligent systems research to facilitate sustainable urban mobility, Professor James Elder聽applied for an Ontario Research Fund (ORF) grant with private sector partners and University of Waterloo co-applicants. He won the $4-million ORF […]
Three 91亚色 professors have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grants, each worth approximately $25,000. The recipients are Professor Roger Keil, Faculty of Environmental Studies and Tier 1 91亚色 Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies; Professor Carolyn Podruchny, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; and Professor Poonam Puri, Osgoode […]
91亚色鈥檚 world class expertise in vision research is recognized with the nation鈥檚 top federal research funding award, the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, to the tune of $33 million. A landmark investment in research was announced on September 8, 2016, at 91亚色. On this day, the government of Canada acknowledged 91亚色鈥檚 expertise in […]
91亚色 and Southlake Regional Health Centre, together with the University Health Network (UHN), will work to develop new technologies to improve the health of Canadians using a $15 million investment from the Government of Canada. Navdeep Bains, the minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and the minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development […]
Researchers at 91亚色 have been awarded more than $5.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).聽The grants, part of more than $107 million in funding and awards recently announced in the Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants Competition, will support 91亚色 research that improves the quality of life of […]
Professor and clinical psychologist Jonathan Weiss of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health is the new Chair in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Treatment and Care Research, the federal government announced聽Monday at 91亚色. The chair, which will receive some $2 million in funding over five years, will study ways to improve the mental health and well-being of […]
Arturo Orellana, professor of chemistry in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, is the recipient of a $60,000 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Chemistry, awarded in the amount of $20,000 per year over three years. 鈥淥n behalf of the 91亚色 research community, I would like to congratulate Professor Arturo Orellana on his receipt […]
Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality […]
Robert Hach茅, a聽molecular聽and cellular biologist and biochemist, will assume the role of vice-president research & innovation at 91亚色 for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2011. The announcement of Hach茅's appointment was made yesterday by 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. 鈥淚 am thrilled that Dr. Hach茅 is coming to 91亚色,鈥 said聽Shoukri. 鈥淒r. […]
How is "hip" constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces?聽Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more聽are at聽the core of聽Making the Scene: 91亚色ville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by 91亚色 postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this聽month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]