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Call for nominations for the President’s Research Awards

ls1207 — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:05:57 +0000

The Senate Committee on Awards invites current or emeritus tenure-stream faculty members to nominate colleagues for the President’s Research Excellence Awards.

As introduced in 2018-19, there are two disciplinary clusters for the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award and the President’s Research Excellence Award: 1) Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine, and 2) Social Sciences, Art & Design, Humanities, Business, Law and Education.

The President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) recognizes full-time faculty members within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the 91��ɫ community’s intellectual life. The PERLA will be conferred to two researchers, one from each disciplinary cluster.

The President’s Research Impact Award recognizes full-time, active faculty members whose body of research or scholarship has translated into a notable impact on communities, individuals, public policies or practice, or translated successfully into impactful commercial or other applications, while significantly and positively contributing to the University’s research culture and reputation.

The President’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) recognizes senior full-time faculty at the rank of professor, with distinguished scholarly achievements who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the 91��ɫ community’s intellectual life. The PREA will be conferred in alternating years between the two disciplinary clusters. This year, the PREA is open to researchers in Cluster 1, Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine.

The criteria and nominations forms can be found on the webpage. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Friday, Nov. 26, by 4:30 p.m.

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91��ɫ celebrates its researchers

ls1207 — Wed, 19 May 2021 17:19:42 +0000

One of the most anticipated events of the academic year, the 91��ɫ Research Awards Celebration, took place May 11. While the event was held virtually due to ongoing pandemic restrictions, the format still offered a wonderful opportunity for researchers to pay tribute to their colleagues and applaud the recipients of the 2021 President’s Research Awards.

This annual celebration was cancelled in 2020 due to the emerging crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. One year later, mass vaccinations are hinting that there will be an end of the pandemic. Organizers decided to proceed with the celebration, which was offered over Zoom and co-hosted by the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation.

Welcome remarks were delivered by President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Vice-President Research and Innovation . Lenton presented each of the 2020 President's Research Awards. The 2021 award recipients were announced by Asif. The celebration also included a series of videos, which featured all of the 140 recipients from 2019 and 2020. Faculty of Health Professor , associate vice-president research, MCed the celebration.

The recipients of the 2020 President’s Research Awards are:

Christopher Perry

, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health, was selected for the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in Cluster 1: Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine, as a reflection of his outstanding leadership in and contribution to the fields of exercise physiology, metabolism and skeletal muscle health.

Since 2012, when he came to 91��ɫ, Perry has contributed significantly to the success of the University, both internally and externally. He established the only human muscle biopsy lab at 91��ɫ, where he investigates the basic cellular mechanisms of muscle fitness and applies these discoveries toward developing novel therapies to treat muscle weakness disorders.

In 2016, he was elected to serve as a director, academic, for the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, Canada’s major authority in exercise science and prescription. This society focuses on integrating state-of-the-art research into best practice. It comprises professionals interested and involved in the scientific study of exercise physiology, exercise biochemistry, fitness and health.

Perry was the recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Health Research Award (early career). He has also received multiple internal and external awards, including funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, the James H. Cummings Foundation, the Rare Disease Foundation and industry funding.

Theodore J. Noseworthy

, Schulich School of Business, was chosen for the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in Cluster 2: Social Science, Art & Design, Humanities, Business, Law and Education Cluster), for his extraordinary leadership and contribution to the fields of marketing and consumer studies. As the Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurial Innovation and the Public Good, he develops insights that inform business and policy-makers about the benefits of effectively communicated innovation and the potential costs to susceptible consumers and society. He examines how marketers can better communicate product and service innovations to maximize adoption and awareness. This work focuses on new product design and innovation, as well as product categorization, category ambiguity and visual processing.

In 2012, Noseworthy was appointed scientific director of the NOESIS Innovation, Design & Consumption Laboratory, a world-class behavioural lab at Schulich, to extend his primary research programs. The NOESIS lab is intended to foster innovative research into consumption, consumer behaviour and design. Noseworthy has developed this lab with the specific goal of conducting high-quality research, training skilled personnel and facilitating knowledge mobilization. Broadly speaking, Noseworthy’s research program is designed to help combat Canada’s innovation deficit by helping the private sector transfer knowledge into commercialized products and services to grow the economy.

Debra Pepler

, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, was selected for the President’s Research Impact Award (PRIA) for her innovative contributions to psychology and mental health in the areas of bullying, aggression and violence, especially among marginalized children, youth and families.

In recognition of these contributions, Pepler was named an Officer of the Order of Canada by the Governor General. She is the only psychologist recognized by the Canadian Psychological Association for distinguished contributions to both psychology as a science and public or community service.

Pepler received a Network of Centres of Excellence grant to establish PREVNet – Promoting Relationships & Eliminating Violence Network, funded from 2006-19. She built this interdisciplinary network with her former PhD student Wendy Craig (Queen’s University), with over 120 researchers, 150 graduate students and 62 national organizations. PREVNet’s researchers and partners co-created over 150 resources for bullying prevention and healthy relationships. PREVNet was the culmination of Pepler’s decades of research linking science with practice and public policy for children’s healthy development and healthy relationships.

Pepler’s research embedded in clinical and community settings has real impact on the lives of children, youth and families. She has a strong publication record, having written or co-edited 10 books and more than 200 journal articles, chapters, and reports. In 2007, Pepler was recognized as a Distinguished Research Professor by 91��ɫ for her groundbreaking research.

Eric Hessels (image: Paola Scattolon)

, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, was chosen to receive the President’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) in the Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine Cluster, for his exceptional contribution to atomic, molecular and optical physics.

Hessels, 91��ɫ Research Chair in Atomic Physics and a 91��ɫ Distinguished Research Professor, has led numerous research projects that have far-reaching consequences for the understanding of the laws of physics. He is leading a collaboration whose goal it is to use ultraprecise measurements of the electron to study one of the fundamental unresolved questions of physics.

In 2019, Hessels led a study published in the esteemed journal Science, which found a new measurement for the size of the proton at just under one trillionth of a millimetre. The study confirmed the 2010 finding that the proton is smaller than previously believed. The year before, Hessels led a team that achieved the most precise measurement of the fine structure of helium ever recorded. His researchers had been working on this for eight years.

Hessels is now leading a collaboration (EDMcubed) that is attempting to measure the shape of the electron – or, more specifically, whether its charge is evenly distributed. This measurement will try to shed light on one of the fundamental mysteries of physics: why the universe is made entirely of matter (electrons, protons etc.) and, unexpectedly, has no antimatter (anti-electrons, antiprotons etc.).

The recipients of the 2021 President’s Research Excellence Awards are:

Pouya Rezai

, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, was selected as the recipient of the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in Cluster 1: Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine.

The award demonstrates the complexity and relevance of Rezai’s research in utilizing science and engineering concepts built on the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, material engineering, electronics and microbiology to tackle pressing global challenges in both the health and safety sector, and in the field of bioengineering. His impact on his discipline is demonstrated by his receipt of funding as a principal investigator that spans Tri-Council, industry and provincial sources.

His research has resulted in 47 journal papers, seven book chapters, two issued and two submitted United States patents and 50 conference papers. His achievements were recognized by the prestigious Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation & Trade in 2019 as well as the I. W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering in 2021.

Rezai joined 91��ɫ in 2013 and initiated a graduate program in Mechanical Engineering at Lassonde in 2015 while serving as the graduate program director since 2015. His work has earned four competitive best paper conference awards, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada Visiting Fellowship in 2012, and multiple awards obtained by his students in the past five years. His work has also been recognized in 2017 and 2018 by the Early Researcher Lassonde Innovation Award and the Early Researcher Lassonde Innovation Fund. He provides leadership in his innovative research program and his mentorship and supervision. He has built international connections and his engagement has raised 91��ɫ’s research profile.

Rebecca Bassett-Gunter

, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health, is the recipient of the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in Cluster 2: Social Sciences, Art & Design, Humanities, Business, Law and Education. The award illustrates her leadership in the field of research on the promotion of physical activity among children with disabilities.

Bassett-Gunter has developed an interdisciplinary program of research that has made contributions to the fields of behaviour change psychology, physical activity promotion, health communication and knowledge translation.

Since joining 91��ɫ in 2013, she has published 42 papers in leading journals, and she has shared her research at numerous conferences throughout Canada and internationally. In 2018, she earned the prestigious Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation.

Bassett-Gunter has secured significant external research funding in competitive, peer-reviewed grants as both a principal investigator and co-investigator from major granting agencies, including the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her mentorship impact is evidenced by the success of her students, many of whom have had their research published in leading journals and have secured Tri-Council and other funding. Bassett-Gunter provides leadership in her innovative research programs and in her mentorship and supervision. She has built international connections and her engagement has raised the research profile of 91��ɫ.

Carl E. James

, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Faculty of Education, was selected as the recipient of the President’s Research Impact Award (PRIA). James is the senior advisor on equity and representation in the Office of the Vice-President of Equity, People & Culture.

James is a leading Canadian scholar and researcher in the areas of equity and inclusivity in education, community development, immigration policies and settlement, and critical ethnography. In relentlessly documenting and addressing inequities related to Black and other marginalized groups, James has become internationally renowned for tackling and naming issues of racial inequity, and forging evidence-based policies and actions through innovative participatory research.

His track record clearly speaks to his strong success in designing and carrying out funded programs of research, including ministry, Tri-Council, corporate, school board, foundation, and community-based grants and contracts. He successfully engages his graduate students, involving them in writing and presentations, as co-authors of scholarly work and as active partners in knowledge mobilization activities.

In 2008, he founded the 91��ɫ Centre for Education & Communities, which he directed until 2018. James’ impressive scholarly output includes over 20 authored and co-authored, edited and co-edited books; over 130 book chapters and articles in refereed journals; reports, reviews and educational resources; and hundreds of presentations and workshops. With research that reaches a wide range of audiences, from scholars to policy-makers to the public, and that has undoubtedly enhanced 91��ɫ’s research reputation, James is most deserving of the 2021 PRIA.

Jennifer Hyndman

, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, was selected as the recipient of the President’s Research Excellence Award (PREA). The award is in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments and leadership as an internationally recognized scholar of human displacement, humanitarian response, feminist geopolitics and refugee subjectivity.

In January 2021, she was appointed associate vice-president research in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation. Hyndman has been an exceptional leader in building research programs at 91��ɫ and in training the next generation of scholars. From 2013 to 2019, she served as director of 91��ɫ’s Centre for Refugee Studies, expanding its mandate and strongly supporting faculty to compete successfully for funds to facilitate innovative research and publish in top peer-reviewed journals and books.

Hyndman is a prolific scholar whose list of publications – in peer-reviewed journals and with esteemed book publishers – is extensive. Most recently, she co-authored, with 91��ɫ Professor Emerita Wenona Giles, Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge (Routledge, 2017). She has two monographs, Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Minnesota University Press, 2000) and Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami (Kumarian Press, 2011), plus a co-edited volume with Giles, Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (University of California Press, 2004). She has conducted community-based research, applied work for the United Nations and governments, and is one of 91��ɫ’s most highly cited scholars in the social sciences and humanities.

To view the program for the 2020 Research Awards Celebration, click here. To view the program for the 2021 Research Awards Celebration, click here.

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Professors Doug Crawford and Sapna Sharma honoured with President’s Research Awards

muellerm — Thu, 17 May 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Faculty of Health Professor Doug Crawford and Faculty of Science Professor have been named recipients of 2018 President’s Research Excellence Awards. Crawford received the 2018 91��ɫ President’s Research Excellence Award and Sharma was the recipient fo the 2018 President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award.

“It is my great pleasure to acknowledge these two truly outstanding researchers—Professor Doug Crawford, recipient of the President’s Research Excellence Award, and Professor Sapna Sharma, recipient of the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award,” said 91��ɫ President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton. “Both Doug and Sapna are extremely committed to the University’s mission and vision to advance academic and research excellence for the benefit of all, and at the same time, they are helping to establish 91��ɫ among the country’s leading research-intensive universities through their visionary research, leadership and mentorship.”

Doug Crawford

Crawford is Distinguished Research Professor in Neuroscience and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Visual-Motor Neuroscience at 91��ɫ. He is being honoured for his career contributions toward understanding the neural mechanisms for visual memory and control of eye, head and hand motion.

Crawford is also recognized for his research leadership contributions, in particular, his continuing work as scientific director of the Program, which was awarded the largest research grant in 91��ɫ’s history. VISTA integrates the biological and computational vision research of five 91��ɫ faculties, seven research centres and more than 50 partners to produce technologies that will help people live healthier, safer and more productive lives.

Sapna Sharma

A Tier 2 91��ɫ Research Chair in Global Change Biology, Sharma is being recognized for her leadership in understanding the impacts of climate change, invasive species and habitat alteration on lakes. Her research focuses on predicting the effects of environmental stressors on lakes at broad spatial and temporal scales, and improving the scientific approaches used to generate these predictions.

Sharma is also committed to science outreach through her work with the Royal Canadian Institute for Science and is the founder of a science outreach program for refugee families called (Science Enrichment and Educational Development for Syrians & Refugees).

“We are deeply committed to supporting and recognizing the success of our researchers and scholars,” said Robert Haché, 91��ɫ’s vice-president research and innovation. “We wish to extend our warmest congratulations and best wishes to Professors Crawford and Sharma for their continued success.”

The 91��ɫ President’s Research Excellence Award recognizes senior established, full-time, active faculty members at the rank of professor, with distinguished scholarly achievements who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a substantial contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the 91��ɫ community’s intellectual life.

The 91��ɫ President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award recognizes full-time faculty members within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a substantial contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the 91��ɫ community’s intellectual life.

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91��ɫ’s Research Leaders’ Gala recognizes high-calibre, world-leading research

muellerm — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The 91��ɫ Research Leaders’ Gala, a star-studded annual event in the research community, showcases 91��ɫ’s talent by acknowledging researchers and academics who have won major awards, received large grants, made scholarly contributions in the form of published books or achieved research breakthroughs in the previous calendar year – 2016, in this case. This year, the event took place on April 4 from 4 to 6:30pm at The Underground in 91��ɫ Lanes.

A capacity crowd attended the 91��ɫ Research Celebration, which took place April 4 at The Underground on the Keele campus

“At 91��ɫ, research and innovation are flourishing. 91��ɫ is undertaking work that has local, national and international significance and impact. We are fulfilling the University’s vision to leverage our research excellence and establish 91��ɫ among the country’s leading research-intensive universities,” said Mamdouh Shoukri, 91��ɫ’s president and vice-chancellor.

The event opened with a new graphic animated video: the 91��ɫ Research Impact Story, featuring Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation.

“This annual event is, more than anything, a demonstration of 91��ɫ’s commitment to excellence in research, innovation and scholarship. Our researchers − internationally recognized leaders and pioneers in their fields − are deeply committed to advancing innovative research projects across the vast spectrum of disciplines,” said Haché.

Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District

Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District, provided the opening remarks and offered some vital insights on research and innovation.

Joy Kirchner, University librarian, announced the winners from 91��ɫ’s Undergraduate Research Fair.

Barbara Crow, dean and associate vice-president graduate, spoke about the significance of graduate student research, citing the Banting Fellowship, Trudeau Scholars and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholars (2016).

Recognizing 91��ɫ Research Leaders and Book Prize Winners for 2016 was centre stage at this special event. The highlight of this event was the president’s acknowledgment of the 2017 91��ɫ President’s Research Excellence Award and the 2017 91��ɫ President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award.

President’s Research Excellence Award: Anne Russon

The 2017 recipient of the 91��ɫ President’s Research Excellence Award was Anne Russon, Department of Psychology, Glendon College. Russon is a first-rate scholar with a record of research, publication, outreach and leadership sustained over many years. She is internationally recognized for her accomplishments as a behavioural primatologist and leading expert on orangutans. For 30 years, her research has broken new ground on great ape intelligence. Her pioneering work focuses on the way in which great apes use their cognitive abilities to solve problems in their natural habitat, the evolutionary origins of these abilities and their implications for human intelligence, and how they may relate to conservation efforts.

Glendon psychology Professor Anne Russon accepts the President’s Research Leadership Award from 91��ɫ President and Vice -Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Hache

President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award: Amro Zayed

The 2017 recipient of the 91��ɫ President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award was Amro Zayed, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science. Zayed has already made a major impact and developed an international reputation in his field. He is a productive scholar whose genomic research on honey bees has important applications in the beekeeping industry. He attracts large amounts of funding and talented graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to 91��ɫ. Zayed is very active in translating and mobilizing his knowledge to improve the health of Canadian honey bees that support a large sector of our Canadian agro-economy.

Above: From left, Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Haché, Professor Amro Zayed, recipient of the President’s Research Award, 91��ɫ President and Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri

Complete listing of all award winners

Winners from 91��ɫ’s Undergraduate Research Fair: Nataly Beribisky, Kunali Gohil, Danika Goshulak, Josette Halpert, Aria Kamal, Marina Kudrow, Recheta Lieu, Marissa Magneson, Sinthi Mahendiran, Kay Angliss McDowell, Nishila Mehta, Khalida Nasiri, Kajanth Palachchandran and Elizabeth Wanstall.

Banting Fellowship: Alana Gerecke.

Trudeau Scholars: Aytak Akbari-Dibavar, Gerard Kennedy and Jesse Thistle.

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholars: Alison Humphrey, Zachary Lomo, Jesse Thistle and Syrus Marcus Ware.

91��ɫ Research Leaders and Book Prize Winners 2016 (by Faculty)

Faculties of Education and Environmental Studies: Deborah Britzman, Connie Mayer and Catriona Sandilands.

Faculty of Health: Ellen Bialystok, David A. Hood, Michaela Hynie, Joel Katz, Jolynn Pek, Shayna Rosenbaum, Harvey Skinner and Jonathan Weiss.

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies: Naomi Adelson, Lorraine Code, Julia Creet, Craig Heron, Sara R. Horowitz, Jimmy Huang, Rachel Koopmans, David A. B. Murray, Natasha Myers, Valerie Preston, Gabrielle A. Slowey, Leah F. Vosko and Sandra Whitworth.

Faculty of Science: Nantel Bergeron, Carol Bucking, Ray Jayawardhana, Sergey Krylov, Jean-Paul Paluzzi, Chun Peng, Derek J. Wilson and Amro Zayed.

Lassonde School of Engineering, Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business: Douglas Hay, Murat Kristal, Sushanta Mitra, John E. Moores, Poonam Puri, Ela Veresiu and Stepan Wood.

School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design: Alana Gerecke, Philip Hoffman and Janine Marchessault.

Vision Science to Applications (VISTA) Program: Doug Crawford and Richard Wildes accepted this award on behalf of the VISTA team whose members also include Robert Allison, Michael Brown, Marcus Brubaker, James Elder, Mazyar Fallah, Laurence Harris, Denise Henriques, Kari Hoffman, Michael Jenkin, Matthew Kyan, Shayna Rosenbaum, Lauren Sergio, Jennifer Steeves, Dale Stevens, John Tsotsos, Graham Wakefield, Laurie Wilcox, Thilo Womensdorf and Jianhong Wu.

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Glendon College celebrates research in public affairs and languages

muellerm — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:00:00 +0000

On Thursday, Nov. 8, Glendon College in conjunction with the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, will host a festival of research highlighting Glendon’s strengths in public affairs and languages.

The Principal’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Research will also be presented at the event.

“Glendon College is renowned for offering a bilingual education across a wide range of liberal arts disciplines, with a focus on public and international affairs and the study of languages and cultures,” said Robert Haché, 91��ɫ’s vice-president research & Innovation. “This festival of research provides an opportunity for members of the 91��ɫ community to learn more about the diversity and broad range of research initiatives taking place at Glendon College.”

“I am delighted to welcome the 91��ɫ community to this first Glendon Research Festival. Our campus has more than 85 researchers conducting a wide array of projects in fields ranging from mathematics to drama studies, from neuroscience to political science," said Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts. The events held this year will feature exciting research on Quebec, education, Aboriginal linguistics and French-English translation. We will also recognize the recent achievements of our colleagues and honour the recipient of the Principal Research Award during an afternoon celebration. We hope that members of the 91��ɫ community can join us for the Glendon Research Festival and take this opportunity to visit Glendon's beautiful new facilities.”

The festival offers four research events:

A bilingual conference on the student mobilization in Quebec will be held from 9:45am to 1pm in the BMO Conference Centre at Glendon College. The conference is organized by Glendon political science Professor Francis Garon and the . Five panellists will explain the social and political origins of the “carré rouge” movement and explore its implications for student tuitions fees and for post-secondary education policies in both Quebec and Ontario. for more details.

The education is presenting a special lecture on linguistic and Aboriginal literacy by expert Barbara Burnaby from Memorial University in Newfoundland. The lecture will be an opportunity to learn about how public policy and educational initiatives can help to teach, develop and stabilize the Innu language in Labrador and elsewhere in Canada. The lecture is at the Glendon Auditorium, 91��ɫ Hall A100, from 6 to 7pm.

Professor Aurélia Klimkiewicz and the Glendon Translation Department are organizing a lecture (in French) on translation theory. Guest speaker Annick Chapdelaine, a translation theorist, translator and literary specialist at McGill University in Montreal, will discuss the challenges of dualist taxonomies in translation. She will draw examples from her work on celebrated American writer William Faulkner. The lecture will take place in the Senior Common Room, third floor, 91��ɫ Hall, from 6 to 6:40pm.

The principal’s office and the Glendon Research Services will host their annual celebration of Faculty research achievements by honouring the recipients of the Awards for Excellence in Teaching and in Research. This celebration provides an opportunity to recognize the success of those colleagues who have received research funding and those who have published books and articles since November 2011. Members of the 91��ɫ community are invited to attend the celebration in the Senior Common Room, third floor, 91��ɫ Hall, from 4 to 5:30pm .

For more information please contact Michael Ah Choon, acting research officer, Glendon College at ext. 66829 or mahchoon@glendon.yorku.ca.

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Professor Ellen Bialystok accepts $100,000 Killam Prize

fmaquito — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000

91��ɫ Professor Ellen Bialystok accepted the $100,000 Killam Prize for outstanding career achievement at a formal ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa December 14, 2010.

Bialystok, a Distinguished Research Professor in 91��ɫ’s Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health, is known internationally for her research on language, bilingualism and cognitive development. The award was announced in April by the Canada Council for the Arts, which administers the .

One of the most important research prizes in the world, the Killam Prize is awarded annually to five eminent Canadian scholars for their distinction in health sciences, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Bialystok is being recognized for her work in the social sciences category.

Right: Ellen Bialystok

The first in her field to research claims of cognitive deficits in bilingual children, Bialystok discovered that bilingual children and adults have distinct advantages over unilingual people when completing both linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. Her research is now revealing that this advantage continues for bilingual people as they age; she is part of a team of Canadian researchers who recently uncovered that bilingualism can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s by up to five years.

Bialystok has also been recognized by the international linguistics community for her body of work on theories of language processing and on practical issues related to foreign and second-language education.

When the prize was announced, 91��ɫ President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri remarked that the Killam Prize “recognizes Professor Bialystok’s groundbreaking contributions to psychology and confirms the international excellence of her achievements. Her success contributes to the growing national and international leadership of 91��ɫ’s faculty in health-related research as they respond to medical, social and environmental challenges facing Canadians and people around the world.”

Bialystok was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In November 2009, she received the 91��ɫ President’s Research Award of Merit in recognition of her research contributions.

Faculty of Health Dean Harvey Skinner commented that Bialystok’s work is changing our understanding of language acquisition and literacy, as well as cognition and aging, by using both behaviour and neuroimaging approaches. “Her research, and the collaborative research of many other faculty researching developmental and cognitive processes, reflects the Faculty’s goals of innovative research that helps keep more people healthier, longer.”

The Killam Prizes were inaugurated in 1981 with a donation by Dorothy J. Killam in memory of her husband, Izaak Walton Killam. The prizes were created to honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research, whether in industry, government agencies or universities.

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U50: Recipient of President’s Research Excellence Award named

fmaquito — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000

John Tsotsos, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Science & Engineering, has been named the winner of the 91��ɫ President’s Research Excellence Award.

The award, introduced during 91��ɫ’s 50th year, recognizes outstanding research achievement and significant contributions to advance the University’s international reputation for research excellence. Distinguished Research Professors Ellen Bialystok of the Faculty of Health and Paul Lovejoy of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will each receive the Research Award of Merit.

Left: 91��ɫ Professor John Tsotsos at work on his PlayBOT Project – an intelligent, visually guided wheelchair intended for physically disabled children. Researchers in the ICAST network are working on several intelligent wheelchair projects across Canada.

Tsotsos is well known as a pioneer in vision science research. “His great accomplishment for the University was advancing the development of the Centre for Vision Research,” said Amir Asif, chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Tsotsos’ nominator. “Under his directorship, the centre blossomed into a world-leading research centre in the area of vision research, and is clearly one of 91��ɫ’s most important research centres.”

A Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision and Distinguished Research Professor of Vision Science, Tsotsos has received numerous accolades and awards. He has published more than 300 papers in prestigious journals over the last three decades. As a scientist, Tsotsos’ work is recognized for its innovative development of computational models of visual attention. He was the first to prove the Selective Tuning (ST) theory, modelling visual attention, in 1990. Integrating the fields of visual psychology, computer vision, robotics and visual neuroscience, he is also known for the development of PlayBOT, a visually guided robot to assist physically disabled children in play.

Tsotsos’ ability to bring together a diverse group of people is reflected in his leadership role in forming ICAST, the Intelligent Computational Assistive Science & Technology Research & Development Network. The theme of collaboration as an integral part of his research emerges in the many letters of support accompanying his nomination, from his colleagues across Canada. 91��ɫ computer science & engineering Professor Nick Cercone said that not only is John Tsotsos’ “academic achievement and leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision without peer in Canada,” but that the “AI community owes John a debt of gratitude for his tireless promotion of the discipline worldwide.”

91��ɫ psychology Professor Ellen Bialystok (right), recipient of the Research Merit Award, is a Distinguished Research Professor in Psychology and a leading global researcher in bilingualism and its affects on the aging brain. Bialystok’s six books and over 100 papers in scientific journals extend her research beyond themes and geographical boundaries. “She has investigated bilingualism and literacy from a number of angles and across a number of languages and language learners,” said her nominator, Professor Martha Crago of Dalhousie University.

91��ɫ history Professor Paul Lovejoy (left), a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, is also a recipient of the Research Merit Award. As director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Lovejoy is a leading scholar who has pioneered the study of the history and dynamics of the African diaspora from an African perspective. Through his research, he traces the history of migration from Africa into diaspora, following individual enslaved Africans to their destinations in the Americas. Lovejoy collaborates with an international network of researchers in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Brazil, Latin America, Africa and Europe, creating digitized historical data for his unique research. Lovejoy has “revolutionized his field through the innovative use of technology,” according to his nominator, 91��ɫ political science Professor Robert Drummond. "Lovejoy is an internationally active public intellectual in regard to issues of contemporary slavery and reparations.”

Adding his congratulatory message, Stan Shapson, 91��ɫ vice-president research & innovation, said: “The nominations and letters that poured in supporting these distinguished researchers overwhelmingly spoke about the excellent work of Professors Tsotsos, Bialystok and Lovejoy as thought leaders and innovators in their fields. Each of the nominees for the award presented a strong record of sustained research achievement and many contributions towards enriching 91��ɫ’s research reputation.”

“I want to congratulate the winners of these awards and thank them for advancing 91��ɫ’s reputation,” said 91��ɫ President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. “Their ingenuity and contribution to invention and innovation are a testament to 91��ɫ’s research excellence.”

A ceremony to honour the recipients of the President’s Research Excellence Award and Research Awards of Merit will be held Nov. 24 as part of celebrations marking 91��ɫ’s inaugural Research Month.

Republished courtesy of YFile– 91��ɫ’s daily e-bulletin.

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