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Explore health research Friday, from elite athletes to impacts of oil and gas

Explore health, environmental studies and science based-research at a celebration highlighting Healthy Individuals, Healthy Communities and Global Health. The celebration is being co-hosted by three of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculties and Glendon College, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation Friday, March 7. The event will highlight the research of five 91亚色 scholars, […]

Bullying is bad for the brain, says speaker for upcoming conference

Bullying is bad for the brain. It has the potential to change and damage the brain, causing lifelong consequences. Professor Jean Clinton of McMaster University will discuss how toxic stress, such as that caused by bullying, can have long-lasting effects for children, at PREVNet鈥檚 sixth annual bullying prevention conference next week. Debra Pepler Creating Healthy […]

FES conference keynote addresses contemporary environmental literature

Canadian poet Brian Bartlett told the audience at the three-day Green Words/Green Worlds: Environmental Poetry & Environmental Politics conference that Facebook is a new forum for environmental poetry. Bartlett identified a gap in the online realm, arguing that a need existed for a digital 鈥渘ature calendar鈥. He is currently constructing a collection of 365 short […]

Brain food: McLaughlin's lunchtime talks return for another great year

Starting today and continuing until聽Nov. 30, 91亚色's聽McLaughlin College will present the聽fall instalment in its highly popular series of informal lunchtime talks. The subjects covered this month include聽a personal reflection on volunteering in Ethiopia; the similarities and differences between the Nigerian High Court and the Supreme Court of Canada; a two discussions about the聽current challenges in […]

91亚色 MES students explore shrinking cities in Germany

What do urban planners do when cities are shrinking, not growing? This is hard to imagine in a city like Toronto, where real estate is at a premium and construction cranes are a constant feature of the skyline. However, many German cities have been steadily shrinking in population size over the last three decades, resulting […]