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Video: Research, Knowledge Mobilization and Careers

Knowledge Mobilization connects research and researchers to the outside world to benefit society.聽 At 91亚色, the Knowledge Mobilization unit helps people and organizations seeking to develop sustainable solutions to social, environmental, economic and cultural challenges access appropriate researchers and expertise at 91亚色. David Phipps, director of 91亚色's Office of Research Services, heads the university's […]

Long-term residential healthcare project covered in Ottawa Sun

Pat Armstrong, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and an executive member of both the 91亚色 Institute for Health Research and the Graduate Program in Health Policy & Equity, recently received $2.5 million from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada to lead a study to identify […]

91亚色 leads all Canadian universities in SSHRC鈥檚 largest awards

91亚色 researchers awarded two of SSHRC鈥檚 largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by 91亚色 researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]

LA&PS series on why research matters to feature 91亚色's Knowledge Mobilization Program (KMb)

It鈥檚 been a year of research-intensive events and activities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and one of the most notable initiatives has been the Research Matters series. It attempts to answer the question: 鈥淲hy does research matter?鈥 In particular, it focuses on the ways in which LA&PS researchers 鈥 both faculty […]

91亚色 research team picks up inaugural grant from the Hennick Centre

91亚色's聽Hennick Centre for Business聽& Law has given its inaugural Collaborative Research Grants Program award to an interdisciplinary team of professors studying transnational business grievance. The $5,000 research grant was awarded to Professors Burkard Eberlein and Alan Richardson of the Schulich School of Business and Professor Stepan Wood of Osgoode Hall Law School for their proposal, […]

Globe & Mail's 2010 Campus Research report cites 91亚色 researchers, programs and projects

This week, the Globe & Mail's 2010 Campus Research report has focused on several of 91亚色's researchers and research-related programs. On March 9, the Globe published an article on the impact social sciences and humanities research has on economic growth. The story was part of its special report on university research and also appeared in […]

Research Accounting posts important deadlines for principal investigators

If you are a researcher or an administrator of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canada Research Chair (CRC) or Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant, there are a number of upcoming important deadlines. Research Accounting is planning its聽process for financial […]

Research Accounting posts important deadlines for principal investigators

If you are a researcher or an administrator of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canada Research Chair (CRC) or Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant, there are a number of upcoming important deadlines. Research Accounting is planning its聽process for financial […]

Researchers expanding GTA's capacity for 3D film production

$1.4 million interdisciplinary project includes filmmakers, vision scientists, psychologists and industry partners Filmmakers, vision scientists and psychologists at 91亚色 have secured over $1.4 million to fund the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a two-year academic-industry partnership that will expand capacity for 3-D film production in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ontario. "The […]

91亚色 prof to study effect of fertilization on northern Ontario lakes

Lewis Molot, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, has received more than $265,000 over three years from the Natural Sciences聽& Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The award will fund Molot鈥檚 experiment to assess the effect of sulphate levels on several impacts associated with excessive fertilization of lakes. The study will be […]

Canadian Institutes of Health Research president hosts town hall meeting at 91亚色

After accepting an invitation from the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, Dr. Alain Beaudet, president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), made his first visit to 91亚色 on Jan. 19. During the visit, Beaudet聽met with a strong and diverse group of 91亚色 researchers and conducted a town hall meeting. The […]

Biomarkers hold promise of a blood test for endometrial cancer

Researchers at 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry (CRMS), Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network have identified protein biomarkers that may aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of endometrial cancer, which聽affects the lining of the uterus. The researchers hope that a partnership with the private sector will expedite clinical testing and […]

Innovative catalogue search engine represents a Canadian first

Over the past 50 years, the 91亚色 Libraries have grown and changed in lockstep with the University's expansion and聽with innovations聽made possible聽by the Internet. For students and researchers looking for information, a search of all of 91亚色 Libraries' print and electronic resources often meant looking in a number of different places. Added to this conundrum was […]

New ResearchSnapshots get knowledge to the community

91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Unit has released 40 new ResearchSnapshot summaries and opened two new Community Collaboration Stations. The announcement of the new initiatives was made聽Dec. 2 during an afternoon research forum hosted at the University by the KM Unit. The summaries are available in a searchable online database located on the KM Unit's […]

New centre looks at biomedical interactions

Scientists at the new Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions (CRBI)聽at 91亚色, which officially opens today,聽aim to make discoveries that will impact global health care and the treatment of diseases. Understanding the foundation of key interactions at the molecular level is the research focus at the聽new centre,聽which will be housed聽in聽91亚色's Faculty of Science聽& Engineering. […]

New research unit for education and community opens it doors

More than 200 people, many of them senior educators, members of the community and representatives of government agencies, joined with 91亚色 faculty and students in celebrating the launch of the Faculty of Education鈥檚 first Organized Research Unit (ORU), the 91亚色 Centre for Education & Community (YCEC), on Oct. 22. The successful event was held at […]

Ottawa renews $1.4-million Canada Research Chair at 91亚色

The federal government has renewed a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Law, Communication聽& Culture at 91亚色 enabling Professor Rosemary Coombe of the Faculty of Liberal Arts聽& Professional Studies to advance her research in the field of socio-legal studies. As a Tier聽1 CRC, Coombe will receive $1.4 million over seven years. The CRC is part of […]