"It鈥檚 expensive doing research up there" in the High Arctic, says聽Elizabeth Miller. Flying all your equipment and four months鈥 worth of food and supplies costs thousands of dollars when you have to transfer three times en route from Toronto聽鈥 via Ottawa, Iqaluit and Resolute 鈥 to get to Polar Bear Pass on Bathurst Island. Research […]
91亚色 media relations staff Janice Walls and Melissa Hughes, frequent contributors to 91亚色 Research News, have been recognized by the annual Council for the Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence awards. The pair received a top-level gold award in a worldwide competition for a series of five 91亚色 news releases that […]
Canada needs a new system for controlling drug prices that does not depend on whether or not a drug has received a patent, according to an article by 91亚色 Professor Dr. Joel Lexchin. Drug prices in Canada can be unregulated for years, a period during which companies may overprice the drugs and market them, says […]
Research-related contract positions attached to either 91亚色's research centres or major research projects within the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation are now posted on this site. You can find them in the Research Jobs section. 91亚色 is currently seeking an MRI technologist to work in the Neuroimaging Laboratory, located in the Sherman Health […]
91亚色 will launch a unique study into the impact of extreme violence on victims and their families, thanks to a generous new gift. The Canadian Crime Victim Foundation (CCVF) has pledged $25,000 for the research initiative which will help address a critical gap in crime research, according to the lead researchers. 鈥淰ictims of extreme […]
Drug has been linked to neurodevelopmental defects associated with autism A 91亚色 study has shown for the first time how the drug misoprostol, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental defects associated with autism, interferes with neuronal cell function. It is an important finding because misoprostol is similar in structure to naturally occurring prostaglandins, which […]
Over the past year, the Social Sciences聽& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has reviewed the way its funding programs are structured to provide researchers with a simpler, more flexible and more effective system of application and assessment. SSHRC president Chad Gaffield addressed this process during a town hall meeting held with faculty and students […]
The Canadian Space Agency invests in concept studies for future space mission to Venus, the Moon or an Asteroid The Canadian Space Agency has awarded two contracts to Richmond, BC-based MDA and a contract to the University of Calgary to develop three different concept studies for Canada鈥檚 participation in NASA鈥檚 New Frontiers Program 鈭 the […]
Donna Smith, senior executive officer in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, has made her presentation on how to develop a research budget available to the 91亚色 community. You'll find the PowerPoint file under Presentations in the Documents and Forms section. Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.
Discovery 2010, the Ontario Centre of Excellence鈥檚 annual conference to showcase and celebrate Ontario innovation, is one of Ontario鈥檚 flagship programs that supports and promotes research at Ontario鈥檚 universities, colleges, research institutions and companies. Held May 17 and 18, Discovery 2010 was billed as 鈥淲here next Happens鈥 for Clean Tech, Health Tech, High Tech and […]
91亚色鈥檚 largest fundraising campaign came to a successful conclusion聽yesterday with a wrap event at Glendon Manor. 91亚色 to the Power of 50, which launched publicly in 2006, raised $207 million, exceeding its $200-million goal. Students, donors and other campaign supporters joined representatives from 91亚色 and the 91亚色 Foundation for a celebratory f锚te to […]
The 10-storey 91亚色 Research Tower provides new facilities purposely designed to help graduate students be more effective researchers on floors six, seven and eight. Professor Susan Henders, director of the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research, spoke about the new facilities during a recent research celebration. Her remarks are available on the Research Web site's multimedia […]
Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the 91亚色 Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building鈥檚 role in fostering social science and humanities research across 91亚色 (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The 91亚色 Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features聽some 84,000 square feet […]
The 91亚色 Research Tower, which was recently celebrated for the added research capacity it has brought to the Keele campus, is聽also a model of sustainability. The tower聽is the only building on campus to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification. The internationally recognized green building certification system provides third-party verification that […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there鈥檚 a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
Janet Murphy, project manager for the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) at 91亚色, participated in a panel at Canada 3.0 this week on learning in a digital society. The Stratford Gazette covered Murphy's remarks at the event in an article published May 12: The younger generations are living their lives with iPods blaring in […]
91亚色鈥檚 Steacie Science & Engineering Library will today celebrate the launch of PubMed Central (PMC) Canada,聽a new Canadian partner in an international network providing free or open access to health research. Faculty and graduate students are invited to find out how 91亚色 Libraries can help make their research available to the world through PMC […]
For students applying to graduate studies and, further along the line, to academic or other high-level positions, having publications in learned journals is not just a great asset 鈥 it is increasingly a requirement, and it may make the difference between being selected or rejected. But most often, after undergraduate students submit their research papers […]
Nov忙 Res Urbis (NRU), Toronto鈥檚 city policy newsletter, covered the global suburbanisms project led by Roger Keil, Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at 91亚色. His team of 44 researchers at 29 universities in 12 countries is embarking on a seven-year project to take stock of suburban […]
91亚色's Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit produces clear-language research summaries that concisely communicate聽research results to non-academic audiences. These summaries support research dissemination, allowing research findings to have a broader impact on decision-making, policy development and professional practice. This unique institutional capacity was recently featured in The Globe and Mail and was聽the subject of a聽presentation聽at the […]