Most people think of slavery as a thing of the past. But that鈥檚 a misconception, says 91亚色 PhD history candidate Karlee Sapoznik of the newly formed Alliance Against Modern Slavery (AAMS). Human trafficking alone is a $32 billion annual industry today and, at聽any聽given time,聽there are聽up to 27 million slaves around the world 鈥撀爐he majority of […]
A few months ago, I was introduced to Helen Papagiannis, an artist, designer and researcher working with the emerging technology Augmented Reality (AR), wrote Rob Rothfarb in Museum Virtual Worlds Jan. 10 in a published interview with the student in the 91亚色/Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture: Papagiannis: 鈥淚 began experimenting with AR […]
CBC Radio's Ideas program is re-airing "It's a Girl's World," Lynn Glazier's audio documentary about the social world of girls where a hidden culture of nastiness lurks beneath a cultural facade of niceness. The series examines the tumultuous nature of female relationships from girlhood to adulthood. The radio series, and its companion National Film Board […]
A 91亚色 professor鈥檚 new book aims to integrate the Inuit experience of climate change with Western climate research, and includes an Inuktitut companion to the volume, making it accessible across cultures. Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North, released this week by University of Ottawa Press, calls for a shift […]
Psychology researchers in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, PhD student Gregory Knoll (MA 鈥07) and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor, along with Professor Wendy Josephson of the University of Winnipeg, will provide three days of training to youth outreach workers and supervisors this month as part of a growing program. Stages of Change training will involve […]
鈥楪reen jobs鈥 have been increasingly touted as the solution to job loss and environmental crisis. Will Canada transition to a cleaner economy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and employs a new generation of workers? Are green jobs the only link between environmental policy and employment policy? Defining green jobs raises further questions. What is a […]
If mixed-income neighbourhoods are to work, such as the one proposed for Lawrence Heights, there has to be a mental shift in the way people view renters, said a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, wrote InsideToronto.com Jan. 6: 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 tell people the way to go is to own property,鈥 said Roger […]
Documentary is affiliated with 91亚色's Global Suburbanisms Project Take a glimpse into someone鈥檚 life that is otherwise invisible to most, wrote The Globe and Mail Jan. 5 in a story about the groundbreaking, web-based work Out My Window, by the National Film Board of Canada, that offers glimpses of lives within housing developments: Zanillya Maria […]
Like all athletes, dancers are prone to injuries, and the risk increases among those performing at the elite level. From stress fractures to overuse syndromes, dance injuries have a serious impact on a performer鈥檚 current and future ability. 91亚色 dance Professor Donna Krasnow first began聽conducting research after she personally experienced a series of injuries. Now […]
How can we respond faster and better to disasters such as last year鈥檚 earthquake in Haiti? That鈥檚 the challenge speakers, first-response practitioners, emergency managers, researchers and educators will discuss at聽the The Haiti Earthquake of Jan. 2010: Lessons Learned seminar next week at 91亚色. The seminar, being held one year after the earthquake, will take place […]
This has been a banner year for Marin Litoiu. The computer scientist has won two major awards and just received a $500,000 grant to聽expand his research at 91亚色. Litoiu has won awards before, but these particular ones stem from his pioneering work in cloud computing, the next big evolution in computing technology. 鈥淚t鈥檚 one of […]
Helen Papagiannis, a PhD student in the Faculty of Fine Arts' Department of Film, participated in 91亚色's inaugural Tedx91亚色u event earlier this month. Her talk on how wonder guides the creative process is the now available on youtube: Papagiannis is an artist, designer and researcher specializing in augmented reality (AR). Hailed as being among the […]
What do math and the flu epidemic have in common? Just ask 91亚色 Department of Mathematics & Statistics Professor Jianhong Wu, who studies disease progression and infection using math. Wu, a Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is leading two prominent Canadian teams on modelling and geo-stimulation of disease spread, and coordinates a […]
On Saturday, Kara Hawkins stepped forward to receive a $2,500 award recognizing her as the highest-ranking applicant in Canada for a graduate scholarship in the field of aging. She accepted the Canadian Institutes聽of Health Research Institute of Aging Recognition Prize in Research in Aging at the annual conference of the Canadian Association on Gerontology in […]
Osgoode Hall Law School鈥檚 Innocence Project, which provides up to 10 Juris Doctor (JD) students every year with supervised clinical work on cases of suspected wrongful conviction, is the driving force behind a constitutional challenge over preservation of evidence in murder cases. The students, who are supervised by Innocence Project Director and Professor Alan Young […]
While researching the historical rights of his First Nation鈥檚 community of Listuguj in the Gespe鈥檊ewa鈥檊ig district of the Mi鈥檊maw on the southwest shore of the Gasp茅 peninsula for his doctoral thesis, 91亚色 PhD candidate Alfred Metallic came to believe there was something missing in what he was doing 鈥 an integral piece of a larger […]
Four professors at 91亚色 had their Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) renewed by the federal government yesterday, bringing $5.6 million to invest in their research at the University. Tier 1 CRCs were renewed for professors Gordon Flett,聽Eric Hessels and John Tsotsos. Professor Leah Vosko was awarded an Advancement Chair, taking her from a Tier 2 to […]
Professor Stephen聽Gaetz in the Faculty of Education participated in 91亚色's inaugural Tedx91亚色u event earlier this month. His talk is now available on youtube: Gaetz鈥檚 research agenda foregrounds social justice and attempts to make research relevant to policy and program development. He comes to this work at 91亚色 after several years of working in the […]
The high level of Type 2 diabetes in the Black Creek neighbourhood of northwest Toronto is imposing tremendous pain and suffering on a largely visible minority population, according to community health workers, researchers and educators who will meet Thursday at a community forum to begin developing an action plan to combat the disease. 91亚色's Health […]
91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit is expanding聽its repository of聽clear language research summaries 鈥 RsearchSnapshots 鈥 as part of its mandate to maximize the impact of research. Using peer-reviewed 91亚色 research, students working within the KMb Unit developed 28 new summaries over the summer. This brings the existing searchable database of ResearchSnapshots to over 120 summaries. […]