Four professors at 91亚色 had their Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) renewed by the federal government yesterday, bringing $5.6 million to invest in their research at the University. Tier 1 CRCs were renewed for professors Gordon Flett,聽Eric Hessels and John Tsotsos. Professor Leah Vosko was awarded an Advancement Chair, taking her from a Tier 2 to […]
Bridget Stutchbury, author of Silence of the Songbirds and The Bird Detective, speaks about how her Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology has changed and broadened her research agenda: Stutchbury is one of 91亚色's 28 Canada Research Chairs. The program celebrates its 10th anniversary November 24 and 25 at the Metro Toronto […]
Research Month celebrates the achievements and diversity of 91亚色鈥檚 research community. Throughout November, the Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring our faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by between 10 am and 2 pm each Wednesday to learn what 91亚色's researchers are doing. The Research Month index on 91亚色's Research […]
91亚色 law & society Professor Annie Bunting (LLB '88) and The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples are聽hosting聽an international workshop on forced marriage in conflict situations today and tomorrow in Room聽305 91亚色 Lanes on the Keele campus. Left: Annie Bunting Bringing together historians of slavery and women's human rights […]
New research from 91亚色 is the first to show how several distinct brain areas control eye and hand movements 鈥 explaining, for example, how a quarterback can make a split-second play with pinpoint accuracy. The study, recently published in The Journal of Neuroscience, examined the inner workings of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), located […]
91亚色 researchers will participate in a mission probing the atmosphere of Mars for sources of methane, part of the ongoing search for evidence of life on the red planet. Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering will be part of a team of Canadian scientists responsible for a device that will measure and […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury spoke about the danger posed by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to migrating birds on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淢etro Morning,鈥 and other local programs across Canada, July 9. The clip is available on Metro Morning's website and runs under 5:30 minutes. Stutchbury is the Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and […]
New mothers who think they should be perfect parents might be at risk for postpartum depression, a new study suggests, wrote MSNBC.com July 7: The results show that a type of perfectionism in which individuals feel others expect them to be perfect, known as "socially-prescribed perfectionism," is associated with postpartum depression for first-time mothers. The […]
Much of what informs environmental thinking springs from a view that equates nature with sexually straight and queer with unnatural. The editors of a new book Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, turn those notions upside down. Co-editors Bruce Erickson (PhD 09鈥) and 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability & […]
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 […]
After an eight-year absence, North America鈥檚 largest swallow has returned to High Park, wrote the Toronto Star June 7. An excerpt of the complete article follows: Two pairs of purple martins, known for the purple-black feathers of mature males, are cohabiting in a colony house on the south edge of Grenadier Pond. The birds are […]
Wendy Taylor, Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics and physics professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke with Bob McDonald about the DZero Experiment on CBC Radios鈥 鈥淨uirks & Quarks鈥 May 29. The interview is available on CBC's Web site. Taylor and other 91亚色 researchers played a key role in a […]
Leading researchers from across southern Ontario will converge on 91亚色 on Friday to discuss the role that muscle plays in metabolism, heart health, aging and disease. The first annual Muscle Health Awareness Day, organized by 91亚色鈥檚聽 Muscle Health Research Centre, will bring together the latest findings on the contribution made by heart muscle and […]
Experience cutting-edge technological wizardry that blurs the line between art, design and science in The Amazing Cinemagician: New Media Meets Victorian Magic, opening May 28 at the Ontario Science Centre鈥檚 Idea Gallery. The exhibition features two interactive installations by new media artist and 91亚色 PhD student Helen Papagiannis that use augmented reality (AR) technology, […]
91亚色 researchers have played a key role in a new finding that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in our universe. The DZero collaboration of scientists at the United States聽Department of Energy鈥檚 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) submitted a finding to the journal Physical Review D, reporting significant differences between matter […]
The morning serenades of nature in New Brunswick have quieted down over the years and a declining songbird population is to blame, according to a conservation biologist, wrote the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal May 14: 鈥淏oth at the provincial level, and even at the national level, you have dozens of species of songbirds that are in […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on The National by CBC broadcaster Colleen Jones about the sex lives of birds May 12. Stutchbury, a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology, published The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds in April 2010. It explains how […]
In a profile about Darren Wershler, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Waterloo Region Record touched on a forthcoming collaboration between Wershler and 91亚色 Professor Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication & Culture on May 7: Through his research, Wershler is working to bring about policy change. He is a principal investigator for […]
In a May 8 review of Professor Bridget Stutchbury's new non-fiction book,聽 The Bird Detective, The Globe & Mail compared it to Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood. Stutchbury is a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering: In […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks on May 1 about her new book, The Bird Detective. Her interview with Bob McDonald is available for download on CBC's Web site. In The Bird Detective, Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social lives of birds, and details the […]