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How do neurosurgeons make intraoperative decisions? What have we learned from distance learning during the pandemic? How do we eliminate hazardous contaminants from wastewater? Podcast or Perish is a podcast about academic research and why it matters. Join podcast host Cameron Graham (professor of Accounting at Schulich School of Business) for a special 10-part series […]
When聽F. Tim Knight聽is finished his work day as an associate librarian and head of technical services for 91亚色's Osgoode Hall Law School 鈥 a role he鈥檚 held since 2006 鈥 he takes on an alter ego. Actually, he takes on one of four alter egos 鈥 and all of them make music. Having turned […]
Creative Shifts proved that creativity is alive and well at 91亚色's School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), despite the challenges of the pandemic. The November 2020 event brought together graduate students from across AMPD to share stories of transforming their research and creation projects in response to the COVID-19 restrictions. 鈥淲e […]
91亚色 Professor by day and celebrated jazz percussionist/composer by night, Barry Elmes releases a new CD that鈥檚 getting a lot of buzz: 鈥淒og鈥檚 Breakfast.鈥
When Eric Armstrong got the call from his agent about made-up science fiction languages, he was up for the challenge. In this Q&A, he talks about this exciting chapter in his career.
What makes a worker bee a good worker? The answer may be both nature and nurture, says 91亚色聽 Professor Amro Zayed, who is studying the genetic basis of honey bee behaviour to create better bee colonies. 鈥淎 colony lives or dies by how well the workers perform, and there is a tremendous amount of variation,鈥 […]
PhD student Tanya Gulliver was interviewed by freelance documentary producer Tina Pittaway in The Day the Water Died, a documentary about how people in Louisiana and Alabama are dealing with the combined psychological fallout and stress of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. CBC's The Current featured the documentary June 9: With […]
Jamie Cameron, professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School, talked about the Linda Gibbons case, in which Ontario launched a lawsuit in 1994 against a group of protesters some say were terrorizing staff and patients outside an abortion clinic, on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淪unday Edition鈥 May 15. Cameron's interview is available on CBC's website and begins […]
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 […]
Anne Russon, psychology professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Glendon College, spoke about her latest research that shows orangutans have conquered their fear of water so they can fish for food, on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淨uirks & Quarks鈥 April 23: Orangutans are generally not fond of water, but Dr. Anne Russon, a professor of psychology at the 91亚色, […]
Edited recording of Fallis鈥 presentation available on LA&PS Youtube聽 channel Can universities cure political indifference? Yes they can, according to 91亚色 Professor George Fallis. 鈥淯niversities must address the democratic deficit,鈥 said Fallis, this year鈥檚 Giambattista Vico Lecturer. They can play a critical role in confronting the democratic deficit pervading politics at every level聽鈥 declining voter […]
Juno-nominated pianist and 91亚色 music Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico will launch her 24th and 25th CD, Glass Houses Revisited and The Liszt Anniversary Collection, at a concert Thursday at the Glenn Gould Studio. The CD launch and recital will take place at 7:30pm, March 17, at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, 250 Front St. […]
Andrew Watson, a 91亚色 graduate student in the Department of History and the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, took part in a panel discussion about art and the science around zombies, on TVO鈥檚 鈥淭he Agenda鈥 March 10. You can watch the clip on The Agenda's website. Braaaaaaaaaains! Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications […]
CBC's The Nature of Things aired its Raccoon Nation documentary Feb. 24, featuring 91亚色 psychology and biology Professor Suzanne MacDonald and PhD student Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux: The researchers tagged the raccoons with GPS collars to log their travels throughout the city, recording them at up to 1,500 points over six weeks. They found that the raccoons […]
91亚色 visual arts Professor Katherine Knight鈥檚 documentary film about influential Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop in some ways mirrors the style found in Koop鈥檚 paintings: full of colour and precise, playing with the idea of glancing and observation, and entering into a world where the real and the abstract co-exist. The world premiere of the 52-minute […]
Professor Laurence Packer in the Faculty of Science & Engineering's Department of Biology spoke to Global News February 12 about the sudden death of the Royal Ontario Museum's bee colony. Over 20,000 bees died in a 48-hour period. You can watch the segment on the Global News website. Packer is a bee expert who has […]
We all know they鈥檙e out there, prying open garbage cans, scurrying across fences and maybe even bunking under your deck, wrote the Toronto Star Feb. 10: But urban raccoons 鈥 who look just like their country cousins but live very different lives 鈥 are rarely studied, leaving humans in the dark about what the nocturnal […]
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 new video from 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri offers a welcome back message to students returning for the winter term.聽Building on the success of his fall welcome message, the president聽offers a recap of聽the major milestones and news events of the past term. In the high-definition video filmed in the Learning Commons at […]