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Graduate students to engage with lawyers, political economists and theorists at SSHRC-funded workshop

Some of the top Canadian and international lawyers, political economists, social and development theorists will meet with graduate students this week to analyze and debate the “new constitutionalism”, a central characteristic of the global political economy. It’s another way 91��ɫ students are being given opportunities to engage with the wider community, says 91��ɫ Distinguished Research Professor Stephen […]

Professor Myriam Mongrain's psychology study on kindness attracts media coverage

There is karma in kindness. It seems that the Biblical adage of doing unto others, as you’d have them do unto you, pays off in happiness, reported the Toronto Star May 17: A 91��ɫ study found that people who performed small acts of kindness – every day for five to 15 minutes for a […]

Glendon Professor Raymond Mougeon co-investigator on $2.5- million francophone project

Linguistics and language studies Professor Raymond Mougeon, director of Glendon’s Centre for Research on Language Contact (CRLC), is a co-investigator on a seven-year, $2.5-million project to examine 400 years of family histories to see how language has shaped communities and cultures. Funded through the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of […]

Fine arts professors' plays pack a political punch

Faculty of Fine Arts professors are bringing three plays to Canadian stages this week – each packing a political punch. The thought-provoking plays tackle the Rwandan genocide, the Canadian election and the untraceable ghost population of the city of Whitehorse. A catalyst for dialogue and healing is 91��ɫ film Professor Colleen Wagner’s Governor General’s Award-winning play The Monument. […]

Yonge Street covers Professor Nancy Nicol's SSHRC-funded global gender identity discrimination project

Toronto helped lead the world in its embrace of diversity when the first same-sex couple to be legally married in North America was wed here in 2003. That local tradition of re-examining legal attitudes to gender issues will carry on as 91��ɫ Professor Nancy Nicol [Faculty of Fine Arts] has received $1 million in […]

Researchers, presenters to explore how artists can reduce their carbon footprints April 20-22

Artists of all stripes from around the world are reducing their carbon footprint in creative ways. Many prominent ones – including the Cirque de Soleil’s Gil Favreau – are coming to 91��ɫ this month to share how at a conference on sustainability and the arts. Hosted by 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Staging Sustainability: Arts, […]

Osgoode faculty discuss global legal challenges in India

Eight faculty members of 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School recently visited India, where they continued a conversation with their counterparts that began last year on governance in a rapidly globalizing world and the impact on social justice, human rights, international trade and foreign investment, and environmental law. Right: Professor Sanjeev Purshotam Sahni (left), head of […]

91��ɫ-led global project to examine criminalization of sexual orientation

Nancy Nicol’s team receives $1 million to study LGBT human rights around the world 91��ɫ visual arts professor Nancy Nicol will lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). […]

Homegrown effort to end homelessness leads international network

Stephen Gaetz, a leading Canadian homeless researcher based at 91��ɫ's Faculty of Education, was interviewed by the Calgary Herald March 21 in a story about an international homelessness conference held in United States: The Calgary Homeless Foundation has taken a leadership role in bringing together an international network dedicated to ending homelessness worldwide. Foundation […]

Glendon Professor Raymond Mougeon joins $2.5M-project to study North American francophones

The way French is spoken in places as diverse as Gatineau, Shediac and New Orleans can tell us a lot about how francophone communities evolved in North America, and it's the subject of a major study beginning at the University of Ottawa, wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 17: The $2.5-million project is led by Francine […]

SSHRC-funded Remembering Radio project seeks Canadian research volunteers

Calling all 78-year-olds – and better. A team of researchers from 91��ɫ in Toronto would like Langley residents aged 78 and over to tune into their research on radio, wrote BClocalnews.com March 15: [Fourth-year undergraduate student] Aidan Moir is one of the research assistants working on the Remembering Radio project with Professor Anne MacLennan […]

Research Volunteer Call: Overweight girls needed for pioneering 91��ɫ U research study

CIHR-funded study will run at the Hospital for Sick Children Are obese girls overweight because they eat poorly and don't get enough exercise or because their bodies don't burn off fat properly? asked InsideToronto.com March 10: Seems no one knows. But researchers at 91��ɫ want to find out. They are conducting the first study […]

Professor Rebecca Riddell takes infant pain research to CIHR's Café scientifique

Not so long ago, many in the medical profession thought infants didn’t feel pain, and whether it was a heel prick or open heart surgery, pain relief was not required. 91��ɫ psychology Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell (BA Spec. Hons. '96), had a different take – that infants did experience pain and it was important to figure out […]

Professor Chun Peng leads research team uncovering how ovarian cancer resists chemotherapy

91��ɫ researchers have zeroed in on a genetic process that may allow ovarian cancer to resist chemotherapy. Researchers in the University’s Faculty of Science & Engineering studied a tiny strand of our genetic makeup known as a microRNA, involved in the regulation of gene expression. Cancer occurs when gene regulation goes haywire. “Ovarian cancer […]

Professor Roger Keil says multiculturalism more successful in Canada than Europe

Declarations by European leaders that multiculturalism is a failure are not applicable to 91��ɫ Region, academics and immigration advocates said, wrote the Aurora Banner, Feb. 18: The dialogue sparked by the leaders mystifies 91��ɫ City Institute director Roger Keil, himself a newcomer from his native Germany in the 1990s. “I’m puzzled (that) the national […]

Professor Sherry Grace's study shows positive benefits of cardiac rehab participation

Health care practitioners can increase the number of patients referred to a cardiac rehabilitation program by more than 40 per cent, helping them to reduce their risk of dying and improve their quality of life, say researchers at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Researchers explored multiple strategies to increase referrals to cardiac rehabilitation programs at […]

Professor Alan Durston receives SSHRC's Aurora Prize for research on indigenous language

Although Quechua dates back to the time of the Incas and is spoken by millions in Peru, its success as a written language has been limited. Despite its official language status, it’s considered marginalized and is dogged by stigma and misconceptions. During the first half of the 20th century, however, there was a sudden flurry […]

SSHRC-funded project provides daily facts about African-Canadian history

Did you know that African Canadians worshipping on the lakeshore founded Toronto's first Baptist Church in 1826? Did you know that Upper Canada was the first place in the British Empire to make laws limiting slavery (1793)? Did you know that Mathieu Da Costa, a multilingual translator of African descent, came to Canada with Samuel […]

91��ɫ psychologist studies the 'spacing effect' in teaching

In the late 1800s, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus set out to memorize hundreds of nonsense syllables and discovered it was more efficient to space out his study sessions than to try to learn long lists in one sitting [wrote The Globe and Mail Feb. 7]: Hundreds of studies carried out since have established the power […]

91��ɫ researchers find clue to achieving more realistic 3D screens

Can 3D images be made to look more realistic? 91��ɫ vision researchers have discovered how a to keep our eyes on the prize, so to speak. In order to see 3D images properly, our left and right eyes have to view separate images. Because 3D display technology isn’t perfect, there are times when images […]