"It’s expensive doing research up there" in the High Arctic, says Elizabeth Miller. Flying all your equipment and four months’ worth of food and supplies costs thousands of dollars when you have to transfer three times en route from Toronto – via Ottawa, Iqaluit and Resolute – to get to Polar Bear Pass on Bathurst Island. Research […]
Walking into a movie theatre to watch a sequel, an audience generally knows what to expect – more of the same. But in recent years, there has been a trend towards discarding the standard sequel formula, allowing a new artistic team to reimagine a film franchise. For better or for worse – the cinematic results of […]
Avant-garde, thrilling, provocative, brainy and fascinating are just a few of the words used to describe films directed by several 91ÑÇÉ« alumni, as well as a current student, that are screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) . The 91ÑÇÉ« talent among the 300 productions showing at TIFF Sept. 9 to 19 includes debut […]
Over the past year, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has reviewed the way its funding programs are structured to provide researchers with a simpler, more flexible and more effective system of application and assessment. SSHRC president Chad Gaffield addressed this process during a town hall meeting held with faculty and students […]
Claire Wynveen (MFA ’09) is the first student on record in the Department of Theatre to be awarded a thesis prize by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her thesis encompassed her performance in the Theatre @ 91ÑÇÉ« production of Peter Barnes’ macabre satire The Bewitched (see YFile, April 7, 2009) as well as a written […]
The first cohort of students graduating from 91ÑÇɫ’s Neuroscience Graduate Diploma Program will present their leading-edge research today as part of the University’s first Neuroscience Research Day. The presentations will take place from 9am to 3:30pm in 163 Behavioural Sciences Building on 91ÑÇÉ«'s Keele campus. Fifteen students will offer summaries of their research. The students come […]
Six 91ÑÇÉ« students have won five awards for their research on Asia or Asian diaspora this year from the 91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Vanessa Lamb (right), a second-year doctoral candidate in geography, is the 2010 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award recipient. Her research interests include the politics of the environment and development, feminist political ecology […]
Four students from 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Graduate Studies have won Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for research on everything from protecting vulnerable women to finding alternatives to the global takeover of organic agriculture. This is only the second year the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships have been awarded. “We are delighted with the results of the Vanier […]
The 10-storey 91ÑÇÉ« Research Tower provides new facilities purposely designed to help graduate students be more effective researchers on floors six, seven and eight. Professor Susan Henders, director of the 91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Asian Research, spoke about the new facilities during a recent research celebration. Her remarks are available on the Research Web site's multimedia […]
Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature, died Sunday, May 16, from complications related to her illness, at Toronto Western Hospital surrounded by family. Funeral arrangements for Friday are noted at the bottom of this page. Here, 91ÑÇÉ« humanities Professor Jody Berland, English Professor Julia Creet and PhD student Elena Basile […]
LIBERTÉ OU LA MORT. When 91ÑÇÉ« grad Julia Gaffield (MA ’07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy – but one simply doesn’t do that sort of thing […]
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of Distinguished Research Professor, to be conferred at the spring or fall 2010 convocation. The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus on retirement. All of 91ÑÇɫ’s Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in […]
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of Distinguished Research Professor, to be conferred at the spring or fall 2010 convocation. The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus on retirement. All of 91ÑÇɫ’s Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in […]