Teaching with technology is a good thing, and no one knows it better than Janet Murphy. The 91亚色 Region District School Board (YRDSB) has awarded Murphy,聽director of 91亚色鈥檚 Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) on applied research program in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, an Outstanding Service Award. Under Murphy鈥檚 leadership, ABEL鈥檚 team […]
The future of the educational Internet will be the topic as the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program hosts its 10th annual ABEL Summer Institute (ASI) this year. Registration is now open for Connected Community Learning: The Next Decade taking place Aug. 22 to 24 on 91亚色's Keele campus. Over the past decade the Internet […]
91亚色 law Professor David Doorey of the School of Human Resource Management has taken the idea of blogging one step further. He鈥檚 developed his own app for his blog, now available for Apple devices聽as a free download through iTunes. Doorey says the main reason he started Doorey's Workplace Law Blog was to better connect with […]
From a stabilization system for an unmanned plane to a glove that will change the channels on the television with a flick of a finger, 91亚色鈥檚 fourth-year engineering students are putting practical twists on their research projects. Seven teams of students from the capstone senior design project course displayed their work in the lobby of […]
The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning program (ABEL), is seeking an eCourse Developer and technical support for the Regional Adaptation Collaboration project. More details, including salary details and how to apply, are available in the Research Jobs section. Please note that only resumes submitted through the described process will be considered. The posting closes May 2, […]
A few months ago, I was introduced to Helen Papagiannis, an artist, designer and researcher working with the emerging technology Augmented Reality (AR), wrote Rob Rothfarb in Museum Virtual Worlds Jan. 10 in a published interview with the student in the 91亚色/Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture: Papagiannis: 鈥淚 began experimenting with AR […]
This has been a banner year for Marin Litoiu. The computer scientist has won two major awards and just received a $500,000 grant to聽expand his research at 91亚色. Litoiu has won awards before, but these particular ones stem from his pioneering work in cloud computing, the next big evolution in computing technology. 鈥淚t鈥檚 one of […]
Discovery 2010, the Ontario Centre of Excellence鈥檚 annual conference to showcase and celebrate Ontario innovation, is one of Ontario鈥檚 flagship programs that supports and promotes research at Ontario鈥檚 universities, colleges, research institutions and companies. Held May 17 and 18, Discovery 2010 was billed as 鈥淲here next Happens鈥 for Clean Tech, Health Tech, High Tech and […]
91亚色 particle physicist Sampa Bhadra (below right) has already figured out how she intends to spend her next sabbatical leave when it comes in 2013 鈥 she's hoping to visit British Columbia so she can spend some quality time at a subatomic research facility that鈥檚 larger than two city blocks and houses the biggest cyclotron […]
Glendon psychology Professor Evelyne Corcos, a respected member of the 91亚色 community, has died. Professor Corcos,聽died on Wednesday, July 8 at the Toronto Western Hospital. Right: Evelyne Corcos A lifelong educator, Professor Corcos was an inspiration to faculty and students alike and was a dynamic and imaginative researcher. In 2005, she pioneered the use […]