PhD student Tanya Gulliver was interviewed by freelance documentary producer Tina Pittaway in The Day the Water Died, a documentary about how people in Louisiana and Alabama are dealing with the combined psychological fallout and stress of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. CBC's The Current featured the documentary June 9: With […]
The 91亚色 Rover Team 鈥 just call them YURTs 鈥 maintained their record of excellence at the international University Rover Challenge (URC) on the weekend, finishing in second place to a team from Poland in the hot deserts of Utah. (CBC also covered the team's success). Above: Members of the 91亚色 Rover Team […]
Jamie Cameron, professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School, talked about the Linda Gibbons case, in which Ontario launched a lawsuit in 1994 against a group of protesters some say were terrorizing staff and patients outside an abortion clinic, on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淪unday Edition鈥 May 15. Cameron's interview is available on CBC's website and begins […]
Douglas Drysdale Davidson, a film editor, television producer and director who taught film at 91亚色 for 30 years, died April 3 at his home in Toronto. He was 82. A memorial service will be held today in the A.W. Miles Chapel at the Humphrey Funeral Home, 1403 Bayview Ave., at 11am. 91亚色 has lowered聽the flag […]
Anne Russon, psychology professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Glendon College, spoke about her latest research that shows orangutans have conquered their fear of water so they can fish for food, on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淨uirks & Quarks鈥 April 23: Orangutans are generally not fond of water, but Dr. Anne Russon, a professor of psychology at the 91亚色, […]
CBC reporter Mary Wiens featured聽 Harvey Skinner, dean of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, in one of a series of reports on the non-violence movement in the Middle East, that aired on CBC Radio's "Metro Morning"聽March 31.聽 Below is a text聽summary from CBC News online. An audio file of the full report is available on the […]
CBC's The Nature of Things aired its Raccoon Nation documentary Feb. 24, featuring 91亚色 psychology and biology Professor Suzanne MacDonald and PhD student Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux: The researchers tagged the raccoons with GPS collars to log their travels throughout the city, recording them at up to 1,500 points over six weeks. They found that the raccoons […]
Professor Robert Latham, director of the 91亚色 Centre for International & Security Studies, spoke to CBC Radio's Metro Morning about the challenges inherent in using the developing situation in the Middle East as a teaching example in the classroom, including the role social media is playing in Egypt, Libya and other places in the Middle […]
The long list of finalists for the 2010 CBC Literary Awards has been announced, and 91亚色 English and education Professor Rishma Dunlop and alumna Kilby Smith-McGregor (BA Hons. 鈥09) are among them. Dunlop鈥檚 Home, Roses, Hauntings and Smith-McGregor鈥檚 The Infinity Pool are both vying for top spot in the non-fiction category, along with 24 other […]
CBC Radio's Ideas program is re-airing "It's a Girl's World," Lynn Glazier's audio documentary about the social world of girls where a hidden culture of nastiness lurks beneath a cultural facade of niceness. The series examines the tumultuous nature of female relationships from girlhood to adulthood. The radio series, and its companion National Film Board […]
Sports and poetry aren鈥檛 usually thought of as intertwining, but 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal is almost as much a sports fan as she is a poet. Given that she was the Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CANFund) poet-in-residence聽during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games, it鈥檚 not surprising that her poems have made their way […]
Will we ever be able to say there is nothing alive on Mars? asked Stephen Strauss in a聽column for CBC News online Oct. 8: Exactly how do we decide when it's time to end the focus on our planetary neighbour and turn our primary exploratory efforts elsewhere? I ask in part because a casual reader […]
A Superior Court justice gutted the federal prostitution law in Ontario on Tuesday, allowing sex-trade workers to solicit customers openly and paving the way for judges in other provinces to follow suit, wrote The Globe and Mail Sept. 29: Justice Susan Himel struck down all three Criminal Code provisions that had been challenged 鈥 communicating […]
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 […]
Anne Russon, a cognitive ecologist and professor of psychology in 91亚色鈥檚 Glendon College, spoke about orangutans鈥 ability to communicate using mime, on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淨uirks & Quarks鈥 Sept. 18. You can listen to Russon's interview with host Bob McDonald on Quirks & Quarks' Website.聽 The interview begins at the 1:30 mark. Russon has observed 18 […]
Professor Maggie Toplak, a clinical psychologist in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, discussed a new American study that found that attention deficit disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children are commonly misdiagnosed with Matt Galloway on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淢etro Morning鈥 in Toronto Aug. 19. The clip runs 6:15 and can be found on CBC's Website. Posted […]
Gail Fraser, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, spoke about concerns over an oil spill response plan for Canada鈥檚 deepest offshore well run by Chevron, on CBC TV鈥檚 鈥淭he National鈥 and other news broadcasts across the country July 21. Her interview with the National is available on CBC.ca. It runs for approximately 2:30 […]
Stuart Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Philosophy and director of the Milton & Ethel Harris Research Initiative at 91亚色, spoke about the concept of self-regulation 鈥 managing our inner emotional life 鈥 and its increasing role in treating children with mental disorders, such as autism, and adults on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淚deas鈥 program […]
Today, the shared experiences of those working in education and climate change is the central theme of a one-day symposium taking place at 91亚色. Organized by the Faculty of Education, the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair聽for Reorienting Teacher Education聽Towards Sustainability, […]
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 […]