“I warmly welcome our most recent cohort of SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellows to 91��ɫ and congratulate them on being awarded this prestigious fellowship,” said Barbara Crow, FGS dean. “I wish them the very best over the next two years and am excited to follow the research projects they will be undertaking here.

“Our postdocs make an incredibly important contribution to 91��ɫ’s research culture,” said Crow. “The innovative quality and tremendous social significance of these postdoctoral projects speaks to the importance of 91��ɫ’s postdoctoral research to our strategic research priorities.”

Joining FGS are Nadège Compaoré, Christopher Little, Barbara Swanson, Megan Lowthers, Adrienne Johnson and Mitchell Akiyama.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships support promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and assist them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers. Postdoctoral researchers in general are a critical element of 91��ɫ’s goal of research intensification. The six new postdoctoral fellows and their research build on and enhance the interdisciplinary work underway at 91��ɫ. They are affiliated with a breadth of research topics and units, including: social science and anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES); visual art and art history in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), and the Sensorium and the Centre for Refugee Studies research centres.

Nadège Compaoré

Nadège Compaoré is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Science (LA&PS), and is supervised by Assistant Professor Uwafiokun Idemudia. Compaoré holds a PhD in political studies from Queen’s University, where her research was funded by SSHRC, by the Center for International Governance Innovation and the Canadian International Development Agency. Her current research project at 91��ɫ, titled “Re-negotiating Mining Laws and State Regulation in Ghana, Guinea and Mali: Implications for the Mining-Development Nexus in Africa,” investigates the changing nature of mining legislations in West Africa, as well as the implications of these changes for corporate and state behaviour in host countries. Compaoré is co-editor of New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa (with J.A. Grant and M.I Mitchell, Palgrave 2014).

Christopher Little is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology (LA&PS), and is supervised by Associate Professor Shubhra Gururani. Little’s project, titled “Towards the livable city: urban transformation, aesthetics, and social life in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea,” considers the growing importance Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, and the conflicts over access to the city and urban public space. His research interests include cities, education, gender, and youth and children. His long-term ethnographic research has been conducted in the Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea. Little’s dissertation research was a study of young, uneducated men attempting to make their lives in urban Papua New Guinea through activities such as crime, sports and informal street selling. Papua New Guinea remains one of the least urbanized countries in the world, yet cities have taken on a great importance to many and, as a result, urban areas are rapidly expanding.

Barbara Swanson

Barbara Swanson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Visual Art & Art History (AMPD). Her project, titled “Painting the Concerto delle donne: Female Vocal Virtuosity and Musical Bodies in Italian Renaissance Art,” focuses on the rise of the professional virtuoso female singer in late 16th-century Italy. Swanson examines the impact of this phenomenon on Renaissance visual culture to demonstrate the significant role of professional female musicians in defining musical and painterly expression within the Renaissance. Her work contributes to a growing transdisciplinary dialogue on arts in the Renaissance and will benefit from the expertise of faculty at 91��ɫ including, in particular, the work of her supervisor Associate Professor Leslie Korrick, who has published significant research on art and music in Renaissance Italy. Swanson will also work with the Regent Park School of Music while at 91��ɫ thanks to relationships facilitated by 91��ɫ’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit. She will be researching and documenting the school’s music programs for youth in the Jane and Finch community.

Megan Lowthers is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Centre for Refugee Studies at 91��ɫ, where she is supervised by Professor Wenona Giles. She received her PhD in anthropology and migration and ethnic relations from Western University. Lowthers’ research focuses on migration and sexual-economic exchange in Africa and her SSHRC postdoctoral project is titled: “Sex Workers’ Experiences of Displacement, Human Rights, and ICTs in Kenya’s IDP Camps.” Lowthers will conduct research at a number of camps and resettlement projects in the Great Rift Valley, exploring female sex workers’ experiences of internal displacement and how they exercise agency by using information and communication technologies, especially mobile phones, to mitigate vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence and also mediate access to basic human rights.

Adrienne Johnson

Adrienne Johnson is affiliated with FES and host supervisor Associate Professor Anna Zalik. Her project, titled “Governing North of 51: The Political Ecologies of the Subsoil in the Ring of Fire Region,” examines how various stakeholders’ knowledge from different groups in northern Ontario such as First Nations Peoples, industry interests, government representatives and local politicians come together via policy institutions to shape the mining future of the Ring of Fire region — a remote area containing up to $60 billion of chromite in the James Bay lowlands. Johnson’s project has implications for the types of resource development practices that are sanctioned in the region, amid government commitments to climate change and conservation priorities, as well as commitments to operationalize more inclusive forms of resource development.

Mitchell Akiyama is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with Sensorium, a research centre in AMPD that supports cross-disciplinary work in digital media arts. Akiyama is supervised by Professor Janine Marchessault. Akiyama completed his PhD at McGill University in communications and his current research project is titled "Metaphorical Media: A Natural History of Sonic Reproduction." He is concerned with the relationship between media technologies and the metaphors that both preempt their existence and explain their places in the world. A composer, artist and scholar, he has released 10 records on such labels as Raster Noton, Sub Rosa, and Alien8 in addition to works on his own imprint, Intr.version Records, and has scored and contributed music to many films and dance performances. His doctoral research examined “field recording” across a variety of disciplines, from biology to folklore to sound art. He has published on numerous subjects, from sound art to urban ecology in journals and magazines including, Leonardo Music Journal, The Canadian Journal of Communications, Canadian Art Review (RACAR), Offscreen, Locus Suspectus and Matrix. A book chapter titled “The Recording that Never Wanted to be Heard’ and Other Stories of Sonification,” co-written with Jonathan Sterne, was recently published in the Oxford Handbook to Sound Studies.

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David Phipps

Phipps, who has been nominated in the Connection Award category, which has a prize valued at $50,000, has been instrumental in building 91��ɫ’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit. Through a  series of partnered collaborations, the unit has worked with 231 community and government organizations in 91��ɫ Region and the Greater Toronto Area, including the United Way 91��ɫ Region, Parkdale Activity & Recreation Centre, Nottawasaga Futures, Youth Emergency Shelter Services of Peterborough. Phipps has had a successful and sustained track record in SSHRC funding. The activities enabled by these grants have helped Phipps, research teams associated with these grants and collaborative partners to create 122 jobs and have generated more than $56 million in investments and funding for engaged scholarship as well as community programs and services.

His national leadership in knowledge mobilization is seen in the leadership of Canada’s knowledge mobilization network.  Researchers, students and research partners in 10 universities in 9 communities across Canada are developing knowledge mobilization support services based in part by those Phipps developed at 91��ɫ.  His expertise has also been used by agencies and universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the US and by a network of 24 African universities all of whom are seeking to develop an institutional capacity for knowledge mobilization. Phipps’ publishing in the knowledge mobilization blog, has been viewed over 115,500 times by readers in 148 countries.

“David Phipps’ innovative work has transformed the flow and exchange of research knowledge within and especially beyond the academic community,” said Robert Haché, 91��ɫ’s vice-president research & innovation.  “The impacts of his work on Canadian research, community organizations, government policy, and the Canadian economy are dramatic, exciting and unparalleled.  He is recognized nationally and internationally for his leadership in knowledge mobilization.  The award nomination is well-deserved.”

The Connection Award recognizes an outstanding SSHRC-funded initiative to facilitate the flow and exchange of research knowledge within and/or beyond the academic community.  It is given to an individual or team whose project has engaged the campus and/or wider community and has generated intellectual cultural, social and or/economic impact.

Phipps has also been named the most influential knowledge broker in Canada in 2011 and 2012, according to a report by Knowledge Mobilization Works, a consulting and training company based in Ottawa and he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his work in knowledge mobilization.  In 2012, 91��ɫ’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit received a global best practice award from the EU based Knowledge Economy Network.

The announcement of the winners will be made at a ceremony during the in Montreal on Oct. 15.

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The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus/a, on retirement. All of 91��ɫ’s Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in the intellectual life of the University following retirement. There are 23 individuals who currently hold the title of Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus/a. 91��ɫ currently has 24 active (as opposed to emeritus) Distinguished Research Professors. Under Senate policy, there may be up to 25 active Distinguished Research Professors at one time.

The major criterion for this honour is sustained and outstanding scholarly, professional or artistic achievement where a significant portion of the candidate’s work has been accomplished at 91��ɫ. This award includes all full-time faculty members in all disciplinary areas at 91��ɫ.

Nominations must reach the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council Office (230 91��ɫ Lanes) by Friday, Nov. 30. For more information on how to submit a nomination, contact Peter Mulvihill, FGS associate dean, at ext. 66957, or M. Michael Schiff, FGS Council assistant secretary, at ext. 22264 or by e-mail to mmschiff@yorku.ca.

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The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus/a, on retirement. All of 91��ɫ’s Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in the intellectual life of the University following retirement. There are 23 individuals who currently hold the title of Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus/a. 91��ɫ currently has 24 active (as opposed to emeritus) Distinguished Research Professors. Under Senate policy, there may be up to 25 active Distinguished Research Professors at one time.

The major criterion for this honour is sustained and outstanding scholarly, professional or artistic achievement where a significant portion of the candidate’s work has been accomplished at 91��ɫ. This award includes all full-time faculty members in all disciplinary areas at 91��ɫ.

Nominations must reach the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council Office (230 91��ɫ Lanes) by Friday, Nov. 30. For more information on how to submit a nomination, contact Peter Mulvihill, FGS associate dean, at ext. 66957, or M. Michael Schiff, FGS Council assistant secretary, at ext. 22264 or by e-mail to mmschiff@yorku.ca.

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Pearlman, currently first-vice-president of the RCI, is the director of 91��ɫ’s Core Molecular Biology/DNA Sequencing Facility and former dean and associate dean of 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Graduate Studies. He will be formally inducted at the institute’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday, May 10.

Ron Pearlman

The is the oldest scientific society in Canada, founded in Toronto in 1849 by a small group of civil engineers and surveyors led by Sir Sandford Fleming. Its mission is to enhance public awareness about science, and it is best known for its free public lecture series held on Sunday afternoons in the fall and winter on the University of Toronto campus, and similar free lectures on Thursdays at the Mississauga Public Library.

“I’m grateful to have this opportunity to lead an organization with such an important mission,” Pearlman says. “Science impacts our lives on a daily basis, and in all areas. We need to have a science-literate population, and in a civil society we need a vibrant science culture.”

As president, Pearlman will continue to build on public outreach initiatives, such as making public lectures available via webcasts produced by 91��ɫ. Recent lectures have included top scientists like the University of Toronto’s Shana O. Kelley discussing the latest nanotech tools for diagnosing disease, and 91��ɫ’s own Ellen Bialystok on reshaping the brain through bilingualism. For a full list of lectures available online, click here.

“On behalf of the 91��ɫ research community, I would like to congratulate Dr. Ron Pearlman, University Professor Emeritus of 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Science & Engineering, on his appointment as president of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science,” says Robert Haché, 91��ɫ’s vice-president research & innovation. “As a leading expert in the field of genomics, with a long-standing successful career, Ron has worked to advance scientific research on an international scale and has been a phenomenal ambassador for 91��ɫ research. This prestigious appointment is well deserved.”

Pearlman was recently recognized with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his outstanding contributions to the RCI, and his support of science culture and literacy in Canada. In addition to his role at 91��ɫ, he is also associate scientific director of the Gairdner Foundation and co-ordinates its student outreach program. His research interests include molecular biology and biochemistry, cell biology and genetics utilizing the new genomic and proteomic technologies.

The RCI and 91��ɫ are also among the sponsors of the upcoming , an annual cross-country event that brings science and technology face to face with the Canadian public in a non-intimidating, festival atmosphere at many academic institutions as well as in public spaces.

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Laughing at the Gods (Cambridge University Press) is meant to be a companion to his popular 2011 book,  Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World.

As Hutchinson told a gathering of mostly lawyers, law students and legal scholars at a recent launch of his new book, “Greatness, in anything, is not just about meeting the standards, or exceeding the standards, but changing them.” And that is the criteria he used in choosing which judges to showcase in Laughing at the Gods.

Even though Hutchinson, a Distinguished Research Professor at 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School, refers to these eight judges as “great”, he says that interpretation is open to debate, as is the nature of their influence, good or bad. “The influence of these great judges has been, for good and bad, enormous,” he says.

“As such, this book is intended to open a conversation about some judges and their supposed greatness,” he writes in the book’s preface. It looks at some of the “main characters who have stood out among the judicial ranks,” those judges who have “helped to shape the world”. In this way the book is intended to spark conversation about certain judges and whether they are great.

Allan Hutchinson

Included in the book are England's Lord Mansfield laid the still-standing foundations of private law; America's John Marshall established the institutional importance of judicial review of legislative and executive action; Canada's Bertha Wilson opened up the judiciary to different and excluded viewpoints; and South Africa's Albie Sachs helped to turn a revolutionary movement into a democratic government.

“Great judges are nation-builders as well as game changers,” says Hutchinson.

But the book is “not intended as a hymn of praise for these memorable figures or the judicial function generally,” writes Hutchinson. Instead, it is an examination of “the common law enterprise and seeks to identify what it is that makes some of its judicial practitioners leaders in their field.”

A legal theorist, Hutchinson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and received a University-Wide Teaching Award in 2007. He is interested in law and politics, legal theory, the legal profession, constitutional law, torts, jurisprudence, civil procedure and racism. Much of his work has been devoted to examining the failure of law to live up to its democratic promise.

He is also the author of Evolution and the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance for a Democratic Society (Irwin Law, 2005), among others.

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The two professors were each presented with a Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award at the the meeting of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council. In introducing the awardees, Associate Dean Academic Affairs Thomas Loebel said the professors’ students wrote of them “with an appreciation – and affection – otherwise reserved for family.”

From left, Patrick Monahan, VP academic & provost; Allan Hutchinson, dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies; and Professor Joel Katz

Joel Katz, teaches in the Faculties of Health and Graduate Studies. A Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology and affiliated with Toronto General Hospital, he sports a book-length CV of awards, boards, invited lectures and publications in the fields of psychology, anesthesiology and pain management.

In his introduction, Loebel said that Katz’s students were grateful for the his level of care, patience, kindness and enthusiasm. He displays “care for how they think, research, represent themselves and 91��ɫ, and how they interact– care from the macro to the micro levels, in theory and in practice,” said Loebel.

In their letters of assessment and recommendation, Loebel said that students noted repeatedly that learning from Katz’s published findings made them realize that if they wanted to develop their minds and their approaches to their career fields, and if they wanted to participate truly and significantly in the solution of health problems, then they needed to come study with him.

“When I was informed by my students that they wanted to nominate me, I felt I had already gotten the award” said Katz. Though he has received a number of awards, this one, he says, “is by far the most meaningful. I have students who make it easy and enjoyable for me to do my job.”

Paul Lovejoy, a distinguished research professor and an internationally renowned expert on the African diaspora, teaches in the Faculties of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Graduate Studies. Among his accomplishments and credits, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples.

Patrick Monahan congratulates Professor Paul Lovejoy shortly after being presented with the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award by Allan Hutchinson

A pioneer in the digital humanities, Lovejoy’s work has global significance because it opens access to rare documents and creates online-networked communities. The nomination submissions highlighted how Lovejoy integrates his students in ways that allow them to build skills for their own work. Loebel said that his students expressed great gratitude for his open-access approach to his personal library of volumes and documents that are simply not available elsewhere.

His students repeatedly commented that Lovejoy teaches them to network by example, not only as a career development tool, but more importantly, said Loebel, “as part of the process of learning and discovery, to make community by vibrant communication.”

“It’s the highest honour a professor can receive, based on the ability to share new knowledge and inspire students to achieve their potential,” said Lovejoy, who sees the award as a highlight in his career. “Of the many awards and honours I have been blessed with,” he said, “this one is special – the best.”

Before presenting the awards, Allan Hutchinson, dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, said that Katz and Lovejoy were recognized by both peers and students. They are “raising the bar with the extent of their commitment to their students." Most remarkably, he said, “their graduate students described these professors as genuinely caring and as active participants in their development as students, as scholars and as individuals.”

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Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Allan Hutchinson has been appointed the new associate vice-president graduate and dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, effective March 1.

The announcement was made yesterday by 91��ɫ President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. The appointment of Hutchinson for the five-year term was made after extensive consultation and was approved by the Board of Governors on Feb. 15.

“I am pleased that Allan Hutchinson has accepted our invitation to take up a five-year term as the new AVP and Dean,” says Shoukri. “His leadership and commitment to the success of this University and the broader 91��ɫ community we serve is to be commended, and I look forward to continuing to work with him in the future.”

Allan Hutchinson  

A member of the 91��ɫ community since 1982, Hutchinson is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is currently providing leadership to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in his capacity as interim dean and AVP. While at Osgoode, Hutchinson served as the associate dean (Academic) from 1994 to 1996 and as associate dean (Research, Graduate Studies & External Relations) from 2004 to 2007. He has also served as chair of the University’s Senate and as a member of the Board of Governors.  

Hutchinson holds an LL.B (Hons) from the University of London, and an LL.M (Juris.) and LL.D. from the University of Manchester. He has an impressive academic record and is internationally known as a legal theorist with expertise in a range of areas including law and politics, legal theory, the legal profession, constitutional law, torts, jurisprudence, civil procedure, and racism and law. The author of numerous books and articles, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and a Distinguished Research Professor at 91��ɫ in 2006. He is also the recipient of teaching awards both in Osgoode and at the University level. 

“The next five years will bring significant opportunities and challenges for graduate studies at 91��ɫ. I look forward to continuing to work with Professor Hutchinson in this important portfolio, and I hope all members of the 91��ɫ community will join me in congratulating him on this appointment,” said Shoukri.

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91��ɫ Professor Emeritus John Warkentin's book Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto (Becker Associates/The City Institute at 91��ɫ, 2010) is vying for the award in the book category along with Imagining Toronto (Mansfield Press Inc., 2010) by of 91��ɫ's Department of Geography in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

Faculty of Health Professor Geoffrey Reaume, graduate program director of the Critical Disability Program in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, is the co-founder and chair of the (PSAT). All three nominees deal with Toronto history one way or another and will be at tonight's awards announcement.

The idea for came some years ago when Warkentin was strolling main avenues and back streets of Paris, looking at buildings, street life and public sculpture. "Increasingly, as I walked it became apparent that I could read quite a bit of the history and geography of France, including its colonial associations, through its public sculpture," says Warkentin (Hon. LLD '11). He wondered if he could read the history of Canada or, more specifically, his home city of Toronto through its sculptures.

Left: John Warkentin

There are over 600 public sculptures and monuments in Toronto, says Warkentin. In the book, he divides them into 16 categories with two graphs showing the number of sculptures installed by year and decade since the mid-19th century and 20 maps indicating where the sculptures can be found.

"Many monuments are memorials to Canada's participation in various conflicts or commemorate important individuals in the history of the province or country," he says. "Some sculptors try to relate humans and nature, and some of early examples indicate environmental concerns well before they became an issue for the general public. Only a few sculptures commemorate the history of the city."

, which was also shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism, explores how Toronto's writers have represented the city's buildings, people, neighbourhoods and natural spaces, says Harris, a contract faculty member. "The list of authors and literary works mentioned in the book is extensive, ranging from the familiar – Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Hugh Garner – to the obscure 19th century novelist and founder of the Town of Galt, Bogle Corbet." Corbet's 1831 novel Bogle Corbet; or, The Emigrants is one of the first fictional works to feature Toronto as a setting, says Harris.

Her book traces more than three centuries of Toronto writing from Aboriginal oral narratives to contemporary graphic novels, tracing how Toronto's writers have represented ravines, islands, the lake, what it means to live in the "city of neighbourhoods" and how the people's faith in multiculturalism amounts to a kind of creation myth. "I also explored how class and work are represented, as well as sexuality and the changing suburbs," says Harris.

It was while creating a new geography course in 2005 that Harris realized "there was a huge body of Toronto literature that had not received any comprehensive study, and in fact was widely believed not to exist."

Right: Amy Lavender Harris

Out of this developed the , a database of Toronto novels, poems and other literary works, which Harris still maintains and adds to regularly. The website's library is the largest curated list of Toronto literature currently in existence, says Harris. In 2007, Mansfield Press approached her about doing a book.

"I began writing the book, initially, to respond to claims that Toronto lacks a fully developed literature or that what literature it does have does not compare to the widely fictionalized cities of London, Paris, New 91��ɫ, Mumbai and so on," says Harris. "What I found was that Toronto is richly imagined and that its stories are widely appreciated elsewhere – winning international awards and being in high demand in translated editions – but are not as well appreciated here at home."

Left: Geoffrey Reaume

Through PSAT, Reaume was part of a collective that worked for years to save the 19th century psychiatric-patient-built boundary walls on the south, east and west side of what was once the Toronto Insane Asylum and is now the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) on Queen Street West. Last year, PSAT, along with CAMH, unveiled nine memorial wall plaques at CAMH dedicated to patient labourers of the past (see YFile, Sept. 23, 2010).

"I'm thrilled we were nominated," says Reaume, adding that by recognizing the work of PSAT, the nomination also recognizes and values the people whose unpaid labour built the walls. CAMH Friends of the Archives was the nominator; it collaborated with PSAT in the wall preservation and memorial plaques campaign.

Saving the wall from being torn down and creating memorial plaques took a decade of effort. "There was a great deal of community support for the plaques, which really helped to get the word out," says Reaume. The project aims to connect past history with present issues. It helps to challenge discrimination which is still present today against people with a psychiatric diagnosis.

As of last month, Reaume says he has conducted exactly 100 tours of the walls since 2000. People can now also do self-guided tours thanks to the existence of nine memorial wall plaques and the many people who supported their creation, he says. To watch a video of Reaume talking about the wall, visit the 91��ɫ Institute for Health Research website.

The 37th annual Heritage Toronto Awards for architecture, book, media and community heritage will be announced at a ceremony tonight at , the Royal Conservatory of Music.

For more information, visit the website.

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Come out and meet Robert Haché, the new vice-president research & innovation, and learn more about research services at 91��ɫ.

Staff from the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, the Office of Research Services, the Office of Research Ethics, Research Accounting, Procurement Services, Innovation 91��ɫ and the Faculty of Graduate Studies will be at the open house to answer questions related to research services.

If you are interested in attending, organizers ask that you submit your  no later than Oct. 5.

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