鈥淭his agreement enhances collaboration for researchers at 91亚色 and Southlake,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色 vice-president research & innovation. 鈥淏y signing this agreement, 91亚色 and Southlake are taking steps to streamline our efforts and maximize our resources to promote greater efficiency of the ethics review process.鈥�

Pat Clifford, director of research at Southlake, echoed Hach茅鈥檚 sentiment and said he听is encouraged by the agreement, as it will lay the groundwork for Southlake to work with 91亚色 on additional collaborative research projects.

鈥淎s Southlake transitions to a ministry-designated teaching and research facility, our relationships and collaborative efforts with our academic partners will become increasingly important,鈥� said Clifford. 鈥淭his agreement is illustrative of our commitment to advancing our academic and research agenda, and I鈥檓 thrilled at the prospect of being able to free up resources so we can conduct additional research with more efficient and less redundant process.鈥�

As part of this agreement, only one board of record will exist for any study conducted at either institution and it will be either the 91亚色 Research Ethics Board or the Southlake Research Ethics Board depending on the location where the majority of the work will be conducted and/or the听home institution of the majority of the researchers.

As the board of record, Southlake鈥檚 Research Ethics Board and the 91亚色 Research Ethics Board may approve, reject, propose modifications to, put on hold or terminate a research study at its sole discretion.

For more information, contact Alison Collins-Mrakas, 91亚色's senior manager & policy adviser, research ethics, at acollins@yorku.ca,听or ext. 55914.

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The trip, which began Jan. 1, continues until Jan. 18.听A team of senior academic and administrative staff will visit Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai, with stops at notable universities, fine arts training centres and cultural institutions.

鈥淲e already have a well-established program of international participation, but we鈥檙e always looking to expand our outreach and involvement,鈥� said Barbara Sellers-Young (left), dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, who is leading the delegation.

Studio and theory courses with a South Asian focus are a standard part of the curriculum in 91亚色鈥檚 Departments of Dance, Film, Music and Visual Arts. Special projects in recent years include Theatre @ 91亚色鈥檚 premiere of a modern adaptation of Kalidasa鈥檚 Shakuntala written and directed by then graduate student Charles Roy, who took the play on to its first Canadian professional production and to the Cultural Olympics at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. The Faculty of Fine Arts has several times hosted DanceIntense Canada, in partnership with Sampradaya Dance Creations, headed by alumna Lata Pada (MA 鈥�96), a recipient of the Order of Canada and India鈥檚 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award.

A number of distinguished artist-scholars of Indian heritage hold professorships in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts. They include internationally acclaimed master percussionist , who co-founded 91亚色鈥檚 groundbreaking South Indian music studies program 40 years ago; jazz musician, composer, recording and touring artist ; award-winning documentary filmmaker ; and adjunct professor, choreographer and dancer , who is credited with bringing classical Indian dance 听into the cultural mainstream in Canada.

Underpinning these artistic and academic connections are both longstanding and recent linkages between 91亚色 and educational institutions in India.

91亚色 has agreements in place with the University of Madras and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and the team from the Faculty of Fine Arts will be visiting both institutions to explore opportunities to build on these relationships. 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business maintains a Satellite Centre partnered with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, IIM Bangalore and the Indian School of Business. It also runs the Schulich MBA in India program in partnership with the Mumbai-based SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, and is opening its own campus in Hyderabad in 2013. The renowned A.J.K. Mass Communications Research Centre at New Delhi鈥檚 Jamia Millia Islamia University was originally set up in collaboration with 91亚色, and Faculty of Fine Arts film professors were among the first generation of teachers there.

This solid foundation of existing connections makes India a natural choice for a concerted exploratory visit by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts.

鈥淥ur main objective is to promote research collaboration and expand student learning opportunities, with a focus on exchange opportunities for international scholars and students to mutually enhance the academic and research culture in each organization,鈥� said Sellers-Young.

She is joined on the trip by Sheila Embleton, distinguished research professor of linguistics, a lead architect of 91亚色鈥檚 India Strategy who has served as 91亚色鈥檚 representative at the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute for the past decade; Design Professor Michael Longford, associate dean of Graduate Studies听& Research in the Faculty of Fine Arts; Film Professor Ali Kazimi; and Ina Agastra, international relations and development officer in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

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The study, led by Rutgers University, finds that bees are emerging earlier each spring, advancing their life cycle by nearly a day per decade.

"This may become a case of 鈥榤issed connections鈥� in terms of bees and the plants they need to pollinate," says Sheila Colla (right), a 91亚色 PhD听candidate in biology and study co-author. "So far, bees and plants are keeping pace with each other, but this may not be the case as rates of temperature warming increase."

Scientists call this phenomenon a "phenological mismatch" 鈥� when the life cycles of dependent species fall out of sync with one another.

"In the case of bees, [this mismatch] hasn鈥檛 happened yet," Colla says. "The concern is that some plant species will not respond to climate change in the same manner as their pollinators."听

The study looked at the past 130 years of data on听10 species of wild bees that emerge in the early spring in eastern North America, comparing it with published studies of bee pollinated plants over the same time period.

Results show that life cycle changes in bees have paralleled changes in the plants they visit. Both bees and plants responded to temperature increases from 1971-1999 by more than doubling their rates of phenological advance, suggesting a parallel response to climate change.

"So far, there is only a small difference between bees and plants in terms of their response to climate change, noted in only a handful of species. But, this small difference is worrying," Colla says, noting that of听particular concern is the finding that plant studies conducted in cities showed greater rates of advance for species that emerge earlier in the season.

"This suggests more investigation into the effects of temperature warming in urban environments is needed," says Colla. She emphasizes that potential problems aren鈥檛 just limited to pollination.

"Many ecological functions result from interactions among species, and because not all species respond to climate warming in the same manner, this could potentially lead to phenological mismatches that result in the loss of function. In other words, this could result in serious challenges for many different forms of animal and plant life."

Colla conducted her research under the supervision of 91亚色 biology Professor Laurence Packer as a PhD student in the Department of Biology in听the听Faculty of Science & Engineering.听The research was funded through a Natural Sciences听& Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship to Colla.

The study, "Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants," was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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