Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering at Toronto's 91ÑÇÉ« are currently touring India on a mission to establish key partnerships and collaborations with Indian research organizations and educational institutions, wrote Mumbai's The Hindu Business Line Feb. 27. The delegation of 12 researchers is visiting several top-tier universities and institutes across the country such […]
A delegation of researchers from 91ÑÇÉ«'s Faculty of Science & Engineering will begin a nine-day mission to India today to establish partnerships and collaborations with the country's researchers. The group will visit seven top-tier universities and research institutes during their trip. Along the way they will stop at the India Institute of Technology's facilities in Mumbai (Bombay) and Madras, […]
The 91ÑÇÉ« Institute for Health Research (YIHR) is seeking an administrative clerk for a one-year contract. Applications are due by Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The Knowledge Mobilization unit it also seeking five graduate interns (students enrolled in master's or PhD programs) for placement with a variety of municipal partners in the GTA. There are several […]
Sault College has partnered with 91ÑÇÉ« and the Garden River First Nation to deliver a pre-diabetes detection and physical activity intervention delivery program, also known as PRE-PAID, wrote SooNews.ca Feb. 15: The PRE-PAID project, funded by the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport and Ontario Trillium Foundation, targets groups at high risk for diabetes […]
If collaboration across industry, academic and public sectors is key to bridging Canada’s innovation gap, how do you make university research more accessible to the people and organizations who need this expertise? 91ÑÇÉ« has answered this challenge by launching Innovation 91ÑÇÉ« (IY). Strategically located in 91ÑÇÉ« Region, IY is the public face and conduit […]
How can we respond faster and better to disasters such as last year’s earthquake in Haiti? That’s the challenge speakers, first-response practitioners, emergency managers, researchers and educators will discuss at the The Haiti Earthquake of Jan. 2010: Lessons Learned seminar next week at 91ÑÇÉ«. The seminar, being held one year after the earthquake, will take place […]
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 expand his research at 91ÑÇÉ«. Litoiu has won awards before, but these particular ones stem from his pioneering work in cloud computing, the next big evolution in computing technology. “It’s one of […]
91ÑÇÉ« is the new home of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. The forum is moving to 91ÑÇÉ« from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law and will partner with the 91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL) and Osgoode Hall Law School on various socio-legal research initiatives. “The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice […]
A team of Canadian researchers, including a 91ÑÇÉ« professor, has uncovered further evidence that bilingualism can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s by up to five years. The study, published today in the journal Neurology, follows up on a 2007 study led by 91ÑÇÉ«, which found that lifelong use of two or more languages […]
91ÑÇÉ« President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri published an op-ed in the Toronto Star Oct. 29 exploring the challenges facing higher education and possible responses: We live in a time of unprecedented change characterized by ever-increasing challenges facing higher education. Evolving cultural and social environments, heightened demands for a postsecondary education, rising costs and expectations surrounding […]
91ÑÇÉ« signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Beihang University on Friday. The agreement allows for the exchange of students and faculty across disciplines and offers collaborative opportunities for better research, teaching and faculty development. Above: Standing, from left, Professor Tang Wenzhong, director, Institute for Science & Technology, Beihang University; Professor Wang Huiwen, dean, School of Economics […]
91ÑÇɫ’s Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit is expanding its repository of clear language research summaries – RsearchSnapshots – as part of its mandate to maximize the impact of research. Using peer-reviewed 91ÑÇÉ« research, students working within the KMb Unit developed 28 new summaries over the summer. This brings the existing searchable database of ResearchSnapshots to over 120 summaries. […]
Over the past 25 years, students in the practicum and internship program of the School of Public Policy & Administration (PPA), in 91ÑÇÉ«'s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, have worked in almost every ministry of the Ontario government, in municipal governments across southern Ontario and in a variety of broader public sector agencies, boards […]
Disability Rights Promotion International provides innovative response to UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities If you pass a law to prevent discrimination against persons with disabilities, how do you know whether it’s being enforced, let alone making a difference? Marcia Rioux (right), director of the 91ÑÇÉ« Institute for Health Research (YIHR) and […]
The Faculty of Health has appoointed 91ÑÇÉ« psychology Professor Yvonne Bohr as the director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution. Right: Yvonne Bohr As the new director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution, Bohr is on familiar ground. As an executive member of the LaMarsh Centre […]
The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program has wrapped up another successful ABEL Summer Institute (ASI). The theme of the ninth annual ASI, which took place at 91ÑÇÉ« from Aug. 23 to 25, was Creating the Future Now. The event welcomed some 200 delegates from across Ontario and Canada. The two-and-a-half-day professional learning event included keynote […]
91ÑÇÉ« researchers will participate in a mission probing the atmosphere of Mars for sources of methane, part of the ongoing search for evidence of life on the red planet. Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering will be part of a team of Canadian scientists responsible for a device that will measure and […]
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 […]
The Canadian Space Agency invests in concept studies for future space mission to Venus, the Moon or an Asteroid The Canadian Space Agency has awarded two contracts to Richmond, BC-based MDA and a contract to the University of Calgary to develop three different concept studies for Canada’s participation in NASA’s New Frontiers Program − the […]
The Phoenix is dead and this time it won’t rise again. On May 24, NASA released photos of the Mars Phoenix lander that finally ended even the faintest hope that the 91ÑÇÉ«-designed weather instruments on board the spacecraft would come to life again. The photos show that the lander’s solar panels appear to have collapsed […]