You could be an online narcissist if you keep updating your status and posting pouty profile pictures on Facebook, wrote the International Business Times News Aug. 30: An analysis by researchers from 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health suggests that egotism and low self-esteem may be related to 鈥済reater online activity鈥 among Facebook profiles of users […]
Everyone from video game console makers such as Nintendo, to satellite TV services such as Bell TV, is making a bet on 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star July 31: 鈥淭he studios are realizing there鈥檚 a golden goose here because you get all these bums in seats that will pay a 30 per cent premium,鈥 says […]
Professors' SSHRC-funded project involves research collaboration with the Toronto District School Board A project led by 91亚色 Faculty of Education Professors Heather Lotherington and Jennifer Jenson at Joyce Public School in North 91亚色, and funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),聽has received two awards. The 91亚色-Joyce Public School Multiliteracies […]
Over the past year, the Social Sciences聽& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has reviewed the way its funding programs are structured to provide researchers with a simpler, more flexible and more effective system of application and assessment. SSHRC president Chad Gaffield addressed this process during a town hall meeting held with faculty and students […]
Discovery 2010, the Ontario Centre of Excellence鈥檚 annual conference to showcase and celebrate Ontario innovation, is one of Ontario鈥檚 flagship programs that supports and promotes research at Ontario鈥檚 universities, colleges, research institutions and companies. Held May 17 and 18, Discovery 2010 was billed as 鈥淲here next Happens鈥 for Clean Tech, Health Tech, High Tech and […]
Six 91亚色 students聽have won聽five awards for their research on Asia or Asian diaspora this year from the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Vanessa Lamb (right), a second-year doctoral candidate in geography, is the 2010 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award recipient. Her research interests include the politics of the environment and development, feminist political ecology […]
Keeping up that intense feeling of personal connection via the Internet is incredibly important in marketing to the Justin Bieber demographic, says Rob Bowman, who teaches popular music in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts, wrote The Globe and Mail May 29: 鈥淵ou鈥檙e appealing to a certain adolescent group who鈥檝e got fairly innocent notions of […]
Professor Emeritus Jerome (Jerry) Durlak, a mentor to many generations of 91亚色 students in numerous programs, died on Friday, May 21, in Toronto. For more than 50 years, Prof. Durlak worked on applied research and development projects internationally. He introduced innovations ranging from hybrid corn in Costa Rica to agricultural television programs in Guatemala and […]
Experience cutting-edge technological wizardry that blurs the line between art, design and science in The Amazing Cinemagician: New Media Meets Victorian Magic, opening May 28 at the Ontario Science Centre鈥檚 Idea Gallery. The exhibition features two interactive installations by new media artist and 91亚色 PhD student Helen Papagiannis that use augmented reality (AR) technology, […]
In a profile about Darren Wershler, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Waterloo Region Record touched on a forthcoming collaboration between Wershler and 91亚色 Professor Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication & Culture on May 7: Through his research, Wershler is working to bring about policy change. He is a principal investigator for […]
The 91亚色 Leadership Roundtable event series connects senior business executives and community leaders in 91亚色 Region with 91亚色's researchers and senior administrators. Through the roundtable format, participants identify and generate ways to build upon their scientific and social innovation while sharing resources by forming research partnerships. 91亚色Region.com covered the most recent event May 6: […]
From the works of James Cameron to Werner Herzog, 3D films have become a cinematic trend of epic proportions. On the crest of this wave of stereoscopy, 91亚色 officially launched the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a $1.4-million academic-industry partnership to build capacity for stereoscopic 3D (S3D)聽film production in the Greater Toronto Area and […]
The 91亚色-led 3D FLIC research project celebrated its official launch April 23 at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto. 91亚色 professors Nell Tenhaaf, Laurie Wilcox from the Centre for Vision Research, and Ali Kazimi took part in the event's program. The Hollywood Reporter covered 3D FLIC's launch April 23: After losing traditional Hollywood film and TV […]
91亚色 has received $5.7 million to renew six of its Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Professors Caitlin Fisher, David Hood, Joel Katz, Steve Mason, Wendy Taylor and Peer Zumbansen will continue their respective research in digital culture, cell physiology, health psychology, Greco-Roman cultural interaction, experimental particle physics, and transnational economic governance and legal theory. With […]
Professor Ali Kazimi in the Faculty of Fine Arts' Department of Film, part of the recently-funded 3D FLIC research project, spoke to the Toronto Star March 29 about the future of 3D cinema: In the movie industry, Avatar has proven to major film studios and producers that the technology has the ability to generate significant […]
The Augmented Reality Lab in the Faculty of Fine Arts opens its doors to the 91亚色 community March 10 for interactive demonstrations of augmented reality (AR) and GPS locative media research projects in development. From 11am to 3pm, visitors will have the opportunity to experience projections on FogScreen, immersive virtual environments and other innovative applications […]
$11.5 million interdisciplinary project includes computer scientists, vision scientists, designers, artists and social scientists at 91亚色, OCAD and U of T, with 14 industry partners How do you look at millions of genomic patterns and see the diagnostic implications? How do you assimilate satellite data to better predict and visualize the effects of global warming, […]
91亚色's 3D FLIC project, which will bring filmmakers, vision scientists and psychologists together to expand the GTA's capacity for 3D film production, attracted coverage in the Toronto Star on February 23: 91亚色 says it has secured more than $1.4 million to fund the 3-D Film Innovation Consortium, a two-year partnership to expand the […]
$1.4 million interdisciplinary project includes filmmakers, vision scientists, psychologists and industry partners Filmmakers, vision scientists and psychologists at 91亚色 have secured over $1.4 million to fund the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a two-year academic-industry partnership that will expand capacity for 3-D film production in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ontario. "The […]
In February, Barbara Crow will meet with her mother-in-law鈥檚 quilting bunch in Peterborough, her mother鈥檚 synagogue friends in Toronto and a group of retirees in Duncan, British Columbia. She and co-researcher Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University want to know whether and how seniors use cellphones. Right: Barbara Crow 鈥淢any senior citizens use these mobile technologies, […]