Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research. World Water Day: A Solutions-Driven Workshop on Climate Impacts on Freshwater was co-hosted by CIFAL 91亚色 and the Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, 91亚色. The event is part of CIFAL 91亚色鈥檚 In-Focus Knowledge Exchange […]
By Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research Dr. Angele Alook is Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies at 91亚色. A member of Bigstone Cree Nation in Treaty 8 territory, her research focuses on the political economy of oil and gas in Alberta. She is a co-investigator […]
91亚色 Professor Richard Weisman is the co-editor of a new book聽Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives聽published Nov. 29 by Routledge. Weisman is Professor Emeritus in the Law and Society Program in the Department of Social Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. 聽For the past two decades, his research has centered […]
An undergraduate summer research project selected for the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies鈥 (LA&PS) Dean鈥檚 Award for Research Excellence (DARE) program in 2020, has shown that mentorship between faculty and students can have a long-lasting impact. The DARE award offers Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies undergraduate students the opportunity to participate […]
Individuals seeking gender-affirming hormones and surgeries have to jump through hoops to prove they are truly transgender, says 91亚色 Professor聽Kinnon R. MacKinnon. Canada鈥檚 stringent eligibility screenings for medical transition 鈥 to prevent 鈥渞egret鈥 or detransition 鈥 ignore transgender people鈥檚 gender-related perspectives and experiences, says 91亚色 Professor聽Kinnon R. MacKinnon, lead author of a new study. […]
The聽Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS)聽is celebrating the fourth annual聽Dean鈥檚 Award for Research Excellence (DARE)聽by recognizing 54 students for their research achievements. This year鈥檚 DARE recipients produced meaningful work across all disciplines offered in LA&PS. Over the summer, each student played an integral role in coordinating projects that added valuable scholarly inquiry to […]
Over the past decade,聽Ali Asgary, associate professor of disaster and emergency management in 91亚色鈥檚聽School of Administrative Studies, has been running an annual emergency exercise training and is involved in field research on Vulcano Island in Italy alongside an international team organized and led by the聽University of Geneva. Most recently, the team published two articles, […]
91亚色 is hosting a knowledge-exchange dialogue, Oct. 20 and 21, in preparation for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) that begins Oct. 31 in Glasgow, Scotland. As part of this event, there will be a public information webinar at 11 a.m. on Oct. 21. CIFAL 91亚色 is launching its first event, a knowledge-exchange […]
In their study, 91亚色 Professors聽Eric Tucker聽(Osgoode) and聽Leah Vosko聽(Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) recommend that workers be eligible for 15 days of paid leave so that they can cover both sickness and caregiving needs. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed large gaps in sickness and caregiving leave provisions available to workers across the country. To make […]
Two 91亚色 students have earned academic awards for their work advancing Canadian studies. The prizes, awarded by 91亚色鈥檚聽Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, recognize one graduate and one undergraduate student every year. The Barbara Godard Prize for the Best 91亚色 Dissertation in Canadian Studies recipient is Andrew Zealley, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC), […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is pleased to announce the launch of its聽Student Numeracy Assistance Centre at Keele (SNACK).聽This new centre will provide students in relevant LA&PS courses with extensive numeracy support in mathematics, statistics and Microsoft Excel. SNACK was developed to provide a broad spectrum of numeracy support to students […]
The funding will expand the existing physical archive and establish a digital archive of images, documents, video and other assets that are related to Greek Canadian history. When Christopher Grafos entered the Graduate Program in History at 91亚色, he encountered the same problem time and time again. 鈥淲hen I spoke to Greek Canadians about their immigration […]
Professors Burkard Eberlein (Schulich), Sapna Sharma (science), Cheryl van Daalen-Smith (health, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) and Qiang Zha (education) have been appointed 91亚色 Provostial Fellows. Appointed for one year, each of the recipients will work to enhance collegial capacity at an institutional level to advance the priorities of the University Academic Plan (UAP) […]
Five 91亚色 professors have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). They are: Philip Girard, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School; Jennifer Hyndman, associate vice-president research and a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Michele Johnson, associate dean of students and […]
For the聽Sept. 15聽edition of the Scholars鈥 Hub @ Home speaker series, 91亚色 Assistant Professor聽Alan Corbiere聽(MES '00, PhD '20), Canada Research Chair in Indigenous History of North America, will host a discussion titled "Waking up the medicine: Instilling Anishinaabe knowledge into history." Attendees will learn how the Anishinaabe ways of knowing, perspective and language can […]
Three undergraduate student changemakers, who are active participants in governance at 91亚色, are the recipients of the Robert Everett Exceptional Leadership Award in Student Governance. Receiving the prestigious award are Student Senators Issa Abdi Jamaa, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Muhammad Shahmir Masood, (LA&PS); and Dael Vasquez, Glendon College. All of this year鈥檚 nominees […]
A collaboration led by 91亚色 researchers in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health is using artificial intelligence (AI) to define public health policies and interventions to contain and manage the spread of COVID-19 in Africa. With a scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines in […]
91亚色 has announced the four inaugural recipients of its new Provost鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black and Indigenous Scholars:聽Godwin Dzah,聽Don Davis,聽De-Lawrence Lamptey聽and聽Ruth Murambadoro. This two-year award, valued at $70,000 per year, seeks to address underrepresentation in many disciplines and fields by providing Black and Indigenous scholars with the ability to dedicate their time to pursuing […]
New findings from a research project that studied the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fire and rescue calls in the city of Vaughan show shifting patterns in the number of emergency incidents. 91亚色 professors聽Adriano O. Solis聽and聽Ali Asgary聽of the School of Administrative Studies (SAS) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, in […]
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) […]