A United Way report last week highlighted a problem in Toronto: our city鈥檚 poor are increasingly concentrated in crumbling highrise towers, mostly in the inner suburbs, wrote Edward Keenan in聽EYE Weekly Jan. 20: The report addresses a subject that National Film Board filmmaker-in-residence Katerina Cizek has been studying for two years, while making films on […]
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 […]
The second panel in 91亚色鈥檚 鈥淎utomobility鈥 series, taking place today, will examine the changing political economy of the global automobile industry. The panel, hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES) and co-sponsored by the International Business Program of the Schulich School of Business, will feature Scott聽Paradise, VP marketing & business […]
Funding supports projects in 3D film and personalized cancer diagnosis over three years Two 91亚色-led industry-academic partnerships have received a total of $1,237,136 through the Natural Sciences聽& Engineering Research Council of Canada's (NSERC) Strategic Projects Grants program. Sergey Krylov, professor in the Faculty of Science聽& Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, has received […]
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 […]
The Daily Planet featured the robotics collaboration between 91亚色 Professor Michael Jenkin and McGill University Professor Gregory Dudek on January 14, 2011.They are the co-creaters of AQUA, a small submersible robot that swims using paddle legs and carries cameras and position sensors that relay information back to the screen of the tablet computer via an […]
The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies invites applications and nominations for a centre director. Details about the posting are available in Research Jobs. Please note applicants or nominees are expected to be members of 91亚色's full-time faculty at the level of at least associate professor. Applications are due by Monday, January 31, […]
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 […]
Every year,聽graduate assistants working with the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) do a campus survey on a sustainability theme. The first survey in 2006, asked students what they knew about climate change and resulted in more environmentally friendly course kits (see YFile, April 2, 2008); the second assessed the value of urban […]
The LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution, the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the 91亚色 Institute for Health Research (YIHR) are holding a research open house Thursday to highlight some of the excellence in research within each of the three units. The event will take place Jan. 13, from 2:30 to […]
The Institute for Science & Technology Studies (STS) will host a panel discussion today at 12:30pm in the Delaney Gallery, 320 Bethune College. The panel will examine the future of Science & Technology Studies. Participating in the panel are University of Western Ontario聽 Professor William Turkel; University of Toronto Professor Michelle Murphy; Queen's University Professor […]
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 […]
Chancellor Roy McMurtry and three 91亚色 professors will discuss social justice and human rights on a panel next Wednesday as part of the聽Research Matters Speakers Series. McMurtry, former attorney general of Ontario, will open with remarks on social justice in Canada. Each panelist will speak about a different aspect of the theme, followed by a […]
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 […]
Research from 91亚色 is revealing which regions in the brain 鈥渇ire up鈥 when we suppress an automatic behaviour, such as the urge to look at other people as we enter an elevator. A 91亚色 study, published recently in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to track brain activity […]
The Centre for Feminist Research invites applications for its centre coordinator position. Details about the posting are available in Research Jobs. Applications are due by Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.
Who should be the beneficiaries of publicly funded anthropological research? That was the聽question 91亚色 students in Professor Karl Schmid鈥檚 second-year Public Anthropology class addressed in their submissions to the 2010 Public Anthropology Competition 鈥 a North America-wide contest involving 4,000 students in 21 schools. Seven students in Schmid's class won awards for their聽op-ed聽pieces, which聽debated 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 […]
91亚色 is the new home of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. The forum is moving to 91亚色 from the University of Alberta鈥檚 Faculty of Law and聽will partner with the 91亚色 Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL) and Osgoode Hall Law School on various socio-legal research initiatives. 鈥淭he Canadian Forum on Civil Justice […]