With support from the Government of Canada, two new Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) have been appointed at 91亚色 and two existing have been renewed this year. The new CRCs will undertake new research into "re-righting" and "re-writing" the Indigenous history of North America and investigating Black life in Canada. This year鈥檚 awards were announced June […]
With support from the Government of Canada, two new Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) have been appointed at 91亚色 and two existing have been renewed this year. The CRCs will undertake new research into "re-righting" and "re-writing" the Indigenous history of North America and investigating Black life in Canada. This year鈥檚 awards were announced today by the […]
Philosophy Professor Regina Rini pens a provocative article in the UK-based Times Literary Supplement, which suggests that our near-descendants could live forever, thanks to biomedical breakthroughs. This would mean a moral crisis for the last generation facing death, she argues. Professor Regina Rini, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition and core […]
One renewed and five new Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) from 91亚色 were announced on June 14 by the Government of Canada. They are: Professor Mary Bunch, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design 鈥 Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Vision, Disability and the Arts; Professor Theodore J. Noseworthy, Schulich School of Business […]
A PhD student and Canada Research Chair get to the bottom of why consumers are turned off by genetically modified foods, and what could be done to change this. This research will be of interest to all parties involved in labeling practices 鈥 industry, marketers, government 鈥 and consumers.
A new study, led by a Canada Research Chair at 91亚色, finds a protein that plays a key role in muscle health during exercise. This adds important new knowledge around the positive effects of exercise on muscle health.
TORONTO, May 3, 2018 鈹 91亚色 welcomes the appointment of four new Canada Research Chairs, who will study topics ranging from the impact of government policy on migrant workers to how to improve camera images used for scientific tasks. The Government of Canada announced the CRC recipients today. Researchers at post-secondary institutions across Canada […]
91亚色鈥檚 AI profile is on the rise thanks to a compelling variety of projects from Lassonde, including person-following robots and robotics in agriculture. This is real-world application with social impact and value.
Canada Research Chair embarks upon three pain studies in the process of creating and testing a new tool to measure pain. Highly effective, it points to future directions in treatment.
91亚色 U鈥檚 Graham Wakefield, core member of VISTA, participates in a groundbreaking art exhibit in Seoul, Korea: He and fellow artist-researcher create an unforgettable virtual reality experience.
91亚色 U Professor and Canada Research Chair undertakes remarkable project that provides new and unique place for dialogue on Indigenous environmental justice.
TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2017 鈹 91亚色 welcomes the appointment of three new Canada Research Chairs in the Faculty of Science and renewal of a CRC in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. The Government of Canada recently announced the Fall 2017 CRC recipients at post-secondary institutions across Canada, who will receive $145.6 […]
Prof discusses language change from 鈥渆conomic migrant鈥 to 鈥渞efugee鈥 in light of European culture where newcomers are viewed as existential threats.
CRC discovers how the brain remembers visual targets relative to other visible landmarks. This work could help those with brain damage.
The federal government has renewed a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Health Psychology at 91亚色 enabling Faculty of Health Professor Joel Katz to advance his research in the psychological, emotional and biomedical factors involved in acute and chronic pain. As a Tier 1 CRC, Katz will receive $1.4 million over seven years. The renewal is […]
More than 200 local high school science students visited 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus this fall to attend a lecture delivered聽by two award-winning scientists as part of the Gairdner Foundation High School Outreach Program. Accompanied by their teachers, the students listened to two leading scientists聽discuss their research,聽potential discoveries and why they chose a career in science. This […]
Nielson Bezerra, who received his PhD at Universidade Federal de Fluminense in Brazil in 2010 and now teaches at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, has been awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research program at 91亚色鈥檚 Harriet Tubman Institute. The awards were announced by Gary Goodyear, minister of state […]
91亚色 welcomes the appointment of Christian Haas as its new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Arctic Sea Ice Geophysics and the renewal of a CRC in the History of Modern China for Joshua Fogel. As Tier 1 CRCs, Haas and Fogel will each receive $1.4 million over seven years. The CRC is part of […]
Biology Professor Georg Zoidl, 91亚色鈥檚 Canada Research Chair in Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience,聽has received a framed letter of congratulations from Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The letter was delivered to Zoidl by 91亚色 Vice-President Research & Innovation, Robert Hach茅, Faculty of Health Dean Harvey Skinner and Faculty of Science & Engineering Dean Janusz Kozinski. Above: from […]
91亚色 Professor Georg Zoidl has been appointed聽Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.聽 Zoidl, a professor at 91亚色 since July 1 in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, and the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science & Engineering, and a member of 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Vision Research, is examining the functions of […]