IP Osgoode has partnered with Ontario Centres of Excellence鈥檚 (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of Research (CCR) to create a unique intellectual property (IP) clinical program聽that will match Osgoode law students with OCE-supported companies to help them secure and protect their IP en route to commercial success. IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School鈥檚 Intellectual Property聽& Technology […]
Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality […]
91亚色 Professor Peter A. Victor has been appointed chair of Ontario鈥檚 Greenbelt Council, which makes recommendations for the protection of more than 1.8 million acres of agricultural and environmentally sensitive land in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. 鈥淒r. Victor brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and insight to the Greenbelt Council,鈥 said Minister of Municipal […]
Teaching with technology is a good thing, and no one knows it better than Janet Murphy. The 91亚色 Region District School Board (YRDSB) has awarded Murphy,聽director of 91亚色鈥檚 Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) on applied research program in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, an Outstanding Service Award. Under Murphy鈥檚 leadership, ABEL鈥檚 team […]
The Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth Project celebrated its youth researchers with an awards ceremony at the conclusion of a day-long partnership group meeting at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Above: From left, front row, ACT for Youth Project research interns Stephanie Lucas, Stephanie Henry, Aziz Mohammed, Muzna Rehman, Enoruwa Osagie, with youth co-chair Alex […]
Thomas Klassen, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy聽& Administration in the Faculty of Liberal聽& Professional Studies, has been invited to South Korea to be a visiting researcher. Right: Thomas Klassen The Korea Labor Institute has asked Klassen to conduct research on new policies for Korea鈥檚 labour force […]
The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, a one-of-a-kind gathering of experts in stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment, takes place in Toronto June 11 to 14. Major figures from the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Canada will convene at TIFF Bell Lightbox to address and analyze the latest developments in the field. The first of its […]
There is karma in kindness. It seems that the Biblical adage of doing unto others, as you鈥檇 have them do unto you, pays off in happiness, reported the Toronto Star May 17: A 91亚色 study found that people who performed small acts of kindness 鈥 every day for five to 15 minutes for a […]
The future of the educational Internet will be the topic as the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program hosts its 10th annual ABEL Summer Institute (ASI) this year. Registration is now open for Connected Community Learning: The Next Decade taking place Aug. 22 to 24 on 91亚色's Keele campus. Over the past decade the Internet […]
91亚色 nursing Professor Christine Jonas-Simpson has always been keenly interested in loss and grief, how people experience it and how they integrate it into their lives in a continuing way. It was while doing research on daughters who had lost their mothers to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease that Jonas-Simpson experienced what she calls 鈥渢he deepest loss of聽my […]
How can Blackberry smartphones be used to reduce health risks? And what can head injuries teach us about how to rehabilitate our bodies? Physicians and clinicians from Southlake Regional Health Centre, and researchers from 91亚色, will speak at an open house Monday about how they are working together 鈥 in the hospital and in […]
91亚色 law Professor David Doorey of the School of Human Resource Management has taken the idea of blogging one step further. He鈥檚 developed his own app for his blog, now available for Apple devices聽as a free download through iTunes. Doorey says the main reason he started Doorey's Workplace Law Blog was to better connect with […]
Some 24 outside agencies came to the inaugural 91亚色 Autism Research Alliance鈥檚 Research Showcase at 91亚色 last week to hear what researchers were working on 鈥 everything from isolating three to 20 genes potentially responsible for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to looking at how children with ASD process visual and auditory information. 鈥淭he take home […]
From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
A 91亚色 report is calling for reform in the approach used to deal with youth homelessness, emphasizing the potential role that family members can still play in supporting youngsters in need, wrote The Canadian Press April 14 (via the Record.com): The report said it's estimated that roughly 65,000 young people are homeless or living […]
Stillbirths claim more lives each year than HIV-AIDS and malaria combined When Christine Jonas-Simpson鈥檚 son Ethan was born, there was an eerie quiet in the delivery room, and then a piercing wail, wrote The Globe and Mail's Andre Picard April 13. 鈥淭he only cry I heard was my own,鈥 she said somberly. Ethan was dead, […]
The role of family in ending youth homelessness is largely ignored in Canada, according to a report released yesterday by 91亚色, though there is evidence that family reconnection works in Australia and the United Kingdom and in one exceptional program in Toronto. Some 65,000 young people are homeless or at risk of homelessness across […]
Seniors receiving hospital care in acute care for elders units have shorter hospital stays, experience fewer declines in physical functioning and are less likely to be discharged to a nursing home than when treated in regular hospital units. This is one of聽the preliminary findings of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded study led at 91亚色. […]
Youth at risk fail at school, have mental health issues and get in trouble with the law. Would they be better served if all three systems 鈥 education, mental health and justice 鈥 worked together? That question animated discussion at a recent forum organized by the 91亚色 Centre for Education and Community (YCEC). Sponsored by […]
Artists of all stripes from around the world are reducing their carbon footprint in creative ways. Many prominent ones 鈥 including the Cirque de Soleil鈥檚 Gil Favreau 鈥 are coming to 91亚色 this month to share how at a conference on sustainability and the arts. Hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts, Staging Sustainability: Arts, […]