The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded 91亚色 $592,631 in infrastructure funding to support the research of four 91亚色 professors. Ali Kazimi,聽professor in Department of Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts,聽will receive $143,186 in funding for industry standard infrastructure of a Stereoscopic 3D Lab @ 91亚色. The funding will聽allow Kazimi to augment […]
Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation, has issued this commentary聽providing more details on the impact of the 2012 federal budget on research funding agencies and what it means for the 91亚色 research community: Vice-presidents of research from across Canada converged in Ottawa on April 13 to meet with the presidents of the Social Sciences聽& Humanities […]
Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation, has issued this commentary聽on the federal budget to the 91亚色聽community. The recent federal budget reinforced the importance the government is placing on putting its fiscal house in order with some programs receiving cuts in excess of 10 per cent. Within that overall context of restraint is a聽welcome affirmation of […]
When you look at someone鈥檚 office, what do you see 鈥 the desk, some pens, a computer? Do you know it鈥檚 an office because of the objects in it, or by taking in the entire scene? What 91亚色 psychology Professor Jennifer Steeves and PhD candidate Caitlin Mullin (MA 鈥08) have found is that it鈥檚 not […]
In the late 1800s, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus set out to memorize hundreds of nonsense syllables and discovered it was more efficient to space out his study sessions than to try to learn long lists in one sitting [wrote The Globe and Mail Feb. 7]: Hundreds of studies carried out since have established the power […]
Funding will support three projects in biology, kinesiology and psychology The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded 91亚色 $274,689 in infrastructure funding to support the research of three 91亚色 professors. Olivier Birot,聽professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science in 91亚色's Faculty of Health and a member of the Muscle Health Research […]
A team of researchers from 91亚色 has helped created a robot with the smarts to think for itself as it swims underwater, wrote Metro (Canada) Dec. 7: The team, led by Michael Jenkin, a computer science professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering, is working together with teams from McGill University and Dalhousie […]
Without bees, we wouldn鈥檛 have coffee to drink at breakfast, tomatoes in your sandwich at lunch or fruit for a snack on the go. While bee populations all over the world are in trouble, there are lots of things individuals can do to create bee-friendly gardens 鈥 even if your personal green space is limited […]
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 […]
The first cohort of students graduating from 91亚色鈥檚 Neuroscience Graduate聽Diploma Program will present their leading-edge research today as part of the University鈥檚 first Neuroscience Research Day. The presentations will take place from 9am to 3:30pm in 163 Behavioural Sciences Building on 91亚色's Keele campus. Fifteen students will offer summaries of their research. The students come […]
Wayne Hocking says things like, 鈥淚t might turn out to be a red herring,鈥 and 鈥淲e鈥檙e still learning,鈥 and 鈥淎 lot of this is speculation,鈥 wrote the London Free Press June 9: But despite all those cautious caveats, the local scientist says something happened high in the sky over southwestern Ontario on Sunday that just […]
The Toronto art-making duo Christian Giroux and Daniel Young (CGDY) have been working in 91亚色鈥檚 Digital Sculpture Lab over the past few months as artists-in-residence in the Department of Visual Arts. They will present an overview of their work in a free public lecture titled "The Making of Boole", Wednesday, March 24, at 3pm […]
91亚色 math Professor Huaiping Zhu is working on understanding why there are outbreaks of the West Nile virus some years and not others. What goes into the mix 鈥 temperature, precipitation, mosquito population 鈥 to trigger the exact conditions needed for the virus to thrive? Knowing the answer could help in the development of mosquito […]