This is the sixth year that the Schulich School of Business has been eligible to participate in the Financial Times ranking and the sixth straight year that the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program has been ranked number one in Canada.

鈥淲e鈥檙e pleased to have been rated the number one EMBA program in Canada for the sixth straight year by the Financial Times of London and among the top EMBA programs globally,鈥� said Schulich Dean Dezs枚 J. Horv谩th.听听

Dezs枚 J. Horv谩th

The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program placed 27th globally in the 2012 Financial Times ranking, finishing ahead of the Stern School of Business at New 91亚色, Michigan, Columbia, Cornell and UCLA, and behind Kellogg and IMD. Among EMBA programs based in North America or involving North American schools, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked seventh overall. Among programs based outside of North American or involving schools outside North America, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA placed 15th. And among consortia programs (EMBAs delivered by two or more schools), Schulich was 10th in the world. Among the top 10 consortia EMBAs, three belong to the Kellogg network of EMBA partner schools: Kellogg-Schulich, Kellogg-WHU Beisheim (based in Germany) and Kellogg-Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (which ranked number one in the world for the third straight year).

For complete details regarding the ranking, visit the website.

Other Survey Highlights

The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked among the top 20 in the world in the following categories:

• 15th in the world in the 鈥淩esearch鈥� category, which measures the number of articles published by the entire Faculty in leading academic and business practitioner journals.
• 17th in the world in the 鈥淚nternational Students鈥� category, which measures international diversity and experience in the classroom.
• 17th in the world in the 鈥淲ork Experience鈥� category, which measures the seniority and international experience of the EMBA program鈥檚 students.
• 17th in the world in the 鈥淚nternational Course Experience鈥� category, which measures the percentage of classroom teaching hours that are carried out in countries outside of the country where the program is located.

Monday's Financial Times survey marks the third straight ranking in which one of Schulich's MBA or EMBA programs has been rated number one in Canada. Earlier this month, Schulich's MBA program was ranked number one in Canada by The Economist magazine and 16th in the world; and in September, Schulich's MBA program was ranked number one in Canada by Corporate Knights magazine.

For complete ranking details, visit the website.

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鈥淚 think Cabot was a bit of an operator,鈥� says , a PhD Candidate in history at 91亚色, who鈥檚 just published The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery.听

In his book, Hunter uses new research and new translations of critical documents to reveal 鈥渢he surprisingly intertwined nature of Columbus鈥檚 and Cabot鈥檚 lives鈥� and present 鈥渁 fresh perspective on the critical first years of the European discovery of the New World,鈥� states his American publisher Palgrave Macmillan.听

Released in September in the United States and Britain, the book will be published in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre听in the spring.听听

鈥淭his is a book of historical provocation,鈥� says Hunter. In recent years, historians have uncovered much new information about Cabot. Studying Italian and German shipping and commercial documents translated for the Cabot Project, Hunter himself has found a web of coincidences and overlaps that shed new light on how Cabot, especially, emerged as an unlikely explorer of the New World. 鈥淚n a book like this, you can push it all out at once and hope the historical record will hold up,鈥� says Hunter.听

A freelance journalist and author of books on business, history and sports, Hunter has written since 1993. This is his third on New World explorers. His first, God鈥檚 Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal & the Dream of Discovery (2007), about the voyages of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain, was a finalist for the Writers鈥� Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor-General鈥檚 Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His second was Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World (2009).听

In The Race to the New World, Hunter veers from the traditional geographical approach to explorer tales 鈥� they sailed here, they stopped there. 鈥淚 wanted to get away from explorer geography, and put it in context of economic and political history,鈥� he says.听

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What was the state of Europe between 1492 and 1497? Why did these voyages happen at this time? What was the economic impetus, the political situation? If you don鈥檛 know that Henry VII was struggling to keep his throne or that pirates blocked the delivery of luxury goods to England from Venice for two years, then you won鈥檛 fully understand how Cabot could come out of nowhere and successfully pitch for funding to find a route to Asia, suggests Hunter.听

The big question is: 鈥淗ow did a failed bridge contractor resurrect himself as a Columbus doppelganger proposing exactly the same ideas Columbus did on his second voyage?鈥� Based on his research of documents in the Cabot Project, translations of Venice, Milan and Spanish 19th-century records and papers, and a recent French translation of a 1494-95 Latin travelogue, Hunter reveals that Cabot may have encountered two Germans, envoy Jerome Munzer and wealthy Martin Behaim, in Seville and Lisbon. They knew of Columbus鈥檚 1492 abortive voyage and Behaim had听 proposed to Portugal a more northern route west to Cathay. Cabot ran to England to pitch the same idea to the king.

鈥淣ever mind that Cabot had no seafaring experience to speak of,鈥� writes the Washington Post reviewer. 鈥淲hy England sponsored him at all is a fascinating story of political desperation and artful salesmanship amid a European struggle for wealth and power.鈥澨�

鈥淚t鈥檚 hard to imagine that there is still uncharted territory in the history of the New World鈥檚 discovery,鈥� writes Booklist in another review. 鈥淏ut Hunter indeed sails unsullied waters, offering an intriguing and surprising new twist on the old subject.鈥澨�

At 52, why has Hunter decided to do his PhD at 91亚色? Out of school for 30 years, this father of three grown children has a BA in art and art history from McMaster University. But when history professor Carolyn Podruchny, who鈥檇 read God鈥檚 Mercies, encouraged him to do doctoral studies, he decided to do it. His body of work could count as his prerequisite.听听

Hunter鈥檚 dissertation is 鈥淐ryptohistory, Race and Nationalism: Exploring the Fringe of Discovery Narratives鈥�. When researching his books on North American explorers, he came across theories that North America had been visited and colonized by a variety of Bronze Age and early medieval Europeans before Columbus. For evidence, theorists pointed to native petroglyphs.听听

The prevailing assumption was indigenous peoples 鈥渨ere too stupid to have carved these things,鈥� says Hunter. 鈥淭he most extreme form of this,鈥� he points out, 鈥渋s the 'Chariots of the Gods' theory: historic peoples were so backward that the achievements they left behind in the archeological record must have been produced by visitors from outer space.鈥澨�

Hunter aims to show that such 鈥渁rrival ideas advanced, however inadvertently, notions of Aryan supremacy while casting a white shadow over indigenous heritage.鈥� He says such theories, however discredited, continue to be reiterated on TV, in books, over the Internet. 鈥淭he result has been a fluorescence of cryptohistory, a shadowy, sometimes conspiracy-laden alternate version of mainstream history. It has flourished particularly in the historiography of North American exploration, with theories of pre-Columbian European arrivals that have been proliferating since the colonial period as foundation myths supported by immigrant populations.

"While such theorizing is usually dismissed by mainstream historians as 鈥渃rank鈥� amateurism, it should not go ignored,鈥� he insists. Perpetuating such approaches to history 鈥渦ltimately serves agendas of race, culture and nationalism鈥� and 鈥渇uels ideas that indigenous peoples do not deserve their treaty rights.鈥�

By Martha Tancock, YFile contributing writer

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[1.] 91亚色, Canada

91亚色鈥檚 Department of Film [Faculty of Fine Arts] is Canada鈥檚 first, largest and most comprehensive university-based film school. Film programs are taught by 40 award-winning filmmakers and prominent scholars, all active in their field. Students benefit from comprehensive, professional training that blends theory and practice in a free-thinking and creative environment. Five hundred-plus students work in modern learning, production and screening facilities in Toronto, one of the world鈥檚 leading film capitals. 91亚色 offers a mix of graduate and undergraduate programs covering a range of topics. Students explore everything from the role that film and television play in society to genre-specific topics such as the vampire in cinema or crime film.

Asian students with international filmmaking aspirations have a couple of major avenues to choose from. They can give into the Hollywood paradigm and study in LA, where they will be encouraged to conform to the system and join the filmmaking masses. Opposite this, they can seek out smaller, counter-cultural schools that put a priority on the modern film as work of art.

For those intent on pursuing the latter, a school like 91亚色 is an excellent option. Based in Toronto in Canada, it offers all of the advantages of a North American education without cornering aspiring filmmakers in the Hollywood mindset.

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The study, led by Rutgers University, finds that bees are emerging earlier each spring, advancing their life cycle by nearly a day per decade.

"This may become a case of 鈥榤issed connections鈥� in terms of bees and the plants they need to pollinate," says Sheila Colla (right), a 91亚色 PhD听candidate in biology and study co-author. "So far, bees and plants are keeping pace with each other, but this may not be the case as rates of temperature warming increase."

Scientists call this phenomenon a "phenological mismatch" 鈥� when the life cycles of dependent species fall out of sync with one another.

"In the case of bees, [this mismatch] hasn鈥檛 happened yet," Colla says. "The concern is that some plant species will not respond to climate change in the same manner as their pollinators."听

The study looked at the past 130 years of data on听10 species of wild bees that emerge in the early spring in eastern North America, comparing it with published studies of bee pollinated plants over the same time period.

Results show that life cycle changes in bees have paralleled changes in the plants they visit. Both bees and plants responded to temperature increases from 1971-1999 by more than doubling their rates of phenological advance, suggesting a parallel response to climate change.

"So far, there is only a small difference between bees and plants in terms of their response to climate change, noted in only a handful of species. But, this small difference is worrying," Colla says, noting that of听particular concern is the finding that plant studies conducted in cities showed greater rates of advance for species that emerge earlier in the season.

"This suggests more investigation into the effects of temperature warming in urban environments is needed," says Colla. She emphasizes that potential problems aren鈥檛 just limited to pollination.

"Many ecological functions result from interactions among species, and because not all species respond to climate warming in the same manner, this could potentially lead to phenological mismatches that result in the loss of function. In other words, this could result in serious challenges for many different forms of animal and plant life."

Colla conducted her research under the supervision of 91亚色 biology Professor Laurence Packer as a PhD student in the Department of Biology in听the听Faculty of Science & Engineering.听The research was funded through a Natural Sciences听& Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship to Colla.

The study, "Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants," was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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