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IRIS launches book calling for systemic changes to fight climate change

It's not enough to plant trees in exchange for carbon emissions in the fight to mitigate climate change, say 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Anders Sandberg and 91亚色 environmental studies master鈥檚 student Tor Sandberg in their new co-edited book Climate Change 鈥 Who鈥檚 Carrying the Burden?: The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma. Nor is […]

Dream of exploring shipwrecks? Check out Professor Michael Jenkin's wireless controller and underwater robot

A waterproof controller designed and built by 91亚色 researchers is allowing an underwater robot to go 鈥渨ireless鈥 in a unique way. AQUA, an amphibious, otter-like robot, is small and nimble, with flippers rather than propellers, designed for intricate data collection from shipwrecks and reefs. The robot, a joint project of 91亚色, McGill and Dalhousie […]

Institute for Science & Technology Studies launches inaugural lecture series today

Considered to be one of the world鈥檚 leading historians of science, University of California, San Diego history and science studies Professor Naomi Oreskes will be at 91亚色 today to deliver a special lecture聽at 12:30pm in 320 Bethune College (The Delaney Gallery) on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Left: Naomi Oreskes Oreskes, who is聽an adjunct professor of […]

Researchers creating international global rights-monitoring network for persons with disabilities

Disability Rights Promotion International provides innovative response to UN鈥檚 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities If you pass a law to prevent discrimination against persons with disabilities, how do you know whether it鈥檚 being enforced, let alone making a difference? Marcia Rioux (right), director of the 91亚色 Institute for Health Research (YIHR) and […]

CVR professor and PhD student find video game practice readies brain for challenging tasks

You can read how researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at 91亚色聽used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the effect of video-game experience on the neural control of increasingly complex visuomotor tasks in young men, in the October issue of Cortex, an Elsevier journal, wrote MediLexicon.com Sept. 27: Lead author and PhD […]

Canadian Jewish News covers Sherman Health Science Research Centre opening

It used to be a hockey arena. Now it houses the latest functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, wrote the Canadian Jewish News Sept. 22: Last week, 91亚色 officially opened the Sherman Health Science Research Centre, a facility for research in brain and vision, biomechanics, virtual reality and robotics. Planning for the facility, which […]

Professor Yvonne Bohr to direct LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution

The Faculty of Health has appoointed 91亚色 psychology Professor Yvonne Bohr as the director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution. Right: Yvonne Bohr As the new director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution, Bohr is on familiar ground. As an executive member聽of the LaMarsh Centre […]

91亚色 signs research collaboration agreement with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

91亚色 will have聽even more聽opportunity to partner with researchers from China after the University signed a collaboration agreement with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Monday. CASS has over 30 research institutes, while 91亚色 has one of the largest faculties of social sciences and humanities in Canada, which makes this an ideal partnership. 鈥淐ASS is […]

2010 Asia Lecture looks at four decades of Canada-China relations

The 2010 Asia Lecture, 40 Years with China: From the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations in 1970 to the Present Day, will examine four decades of diplomatic relations between Canada and China. 91亚色 political science Professor Emeritus Bernie Michael Frolic,聽of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will deliver the lecture Tuesday, Sept. 21, from […]

91亚色 opens Sherman Health Science Research Centre, specializing in neuroscience, kinesiology and psychology research

Originally the site of some of 91亚色鈥檚聽most memorable聽hockey moments and reputed to have the best arena ice in the province, the former 91亚色 Ice Arena, known as聽the Ice Palace,聽is now home to a new kind of dream team. The Keele campus building's transformation from a聽hockey rink into an innovative new health science research centre […]

Centre for Refugee Studies provides statistics on refugee status in Canada

After medical and security checks, anyone arriving in Canada may apply for refugee status, wrote the National Post Aug. 13, in a story that used statistics provided by Michele Millard, coordinator of the Centre for Refugee Studies at 91亚色: The process takes anywhere from six months to 15 years. A new law passed this […]

Professor Kyle Killian, Centre for Refugee Studies: Boat people are rarely welcomed anywhere

Canada's first boat people were the Norse who came ashore a thousand years ago in Newfoundland. They fit the refugee pattern: farmers and simple artisans, maybe a few fierce Vikings among them known for terrorizing Europe, people driven out of their homeland by population pressures and political unrest, wrote The Globe and Mail Aug. 14: […]

91亚色 Centre for Education & Community's 2010 Summer Institute to explore engaged education

How can schools and communities work together to create innovative avenues to engage students in their education? That is the central theme of this year鈥檚 Summer Institute offered by the 91亚色 Centre for Education & Community (YCEC) in the Faculty of Education. Presented Aug. 17, 18 and 19 at 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus, this year鈥檚 program […]

91亚色 researchers to develop atmospheric modelling instruments for 2016 Mars mission

91亚色 researchers will participate in a mission probing the atmosphere of Mars for sources of methane, part of the ongoing search for evidence of life on the red planet. Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering will be part of a team of Canadian scientists responsible for a device that will measure and […]

Professor Gregory Chin on TVO's "The Agenda"

On air Professor Gregory Chin, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a political scientist in 91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, took part in a panel discussion about China鈥檚 growing economic power in the world, on TVO鈥檚 鈥淭he Agenda鈥 July 19.