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Workshop explores shared synergies in science & engineering

fmaquito — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Leading researchers, industry representatives and academics in science and engineering from Canada and India are gathering today at 91��ɫ's Keele campus as part of a two-day Canada-India Frontiers workshop, which will explore new developments in science and engineering

The first event of its kind, the workshop, which began yesterday and continues today, offers a forum for participants to share ideas, resources and technologies, and engage in discussions about current and future topics of importance to science and engineering in Canada and India.

Speaking at the workshop are Vijay Saraswat, scientific adviser to India's defence minister; William Selvamurthy, chief controller of research & development at India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO); David Kendall, the general director of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Professor Janusz Kozinski, dean of 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Science & Engineering.

Right: Janusz Kozinski

Over the course of the event, participants will be exploring shared synergies, knowledge and advancements in areas such as space exploration, nanosatellite technology, space robotics and disease modelling research. They will also be examining how to collaborate on a new project known as the Early Warning and Advance Response Network (e-WARN). Spearheaded by Kozinski, e-WARN is intended to detect, quantify and initiate an effective response to chemical and biological threats released in public buildings. Researchers from both countries will discuss and plan how to collaborate on the e-WARN project.

Attending the workshop from India are representatives from the DRDO, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, the University of Calcutta and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Also attending are researchers from 91��ɫ, the University of Saskatchewan, McGill University, Concordia University and Ryerson University, and representatives from the Canadian Space Agency, COM DEV International, Unique Broadband Systems, Microstat Systems Canada, Canadian Light Source, MDA Technologies, Xiphos Technologies and the Canada-India Business Council.

Other topics that are part of the workshop include advances in alternative energy, space science and engineering, advanced materials and instrumentation, and life sciences.

For more information, visit the website.

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ACT for Youth Project brings interdisciplinary researchers together, discussing youth in urban communities

fmaquito — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:00:00 +0000

The celebrated its youth researchers with an awards ceremony at the conclusion of a day-long partnership group meeting at Black Creek Pioneer Village.

Above: From left, front row, ACT for Youth Project research interns Stephanie Lucas, Stephanie Henry, Aziz Mohammed, Muzna Rehman, Enoruwa Osagie, with youth co-chair Alex Lovell, a 91��ɫ grad, in the back

Dozens of students from area high schools joined the participants on April 14 to celebrate the Youth research interns and youth-led committee leaders, who worked on the project in 2010.

The ACT for Youth Project, which began in 2009 and is funded through 2014, brings together an alliance of stakeholders and interdisciplinary researchers from 91��ɫ in a program of applied research, capacity building, knowledge transfer and evaluation that is focused on youth in urban communities.

The project hopes to develop a comprehensive youth strategy that articulates how places like the Jane-Finch community can energize local assets that support positive youth development.

One of the goals of the project is to build the research capacity of youth in the Jane/Finch area so they can participate in asking and answering questions about issues of importance to their community. The project created its Youth Research Internship to facilitate this goal. ACT also has a youth-led committee to ensure that youth have a space to contribute to their research.

Youth-led committee co-chairs Antonius Clarke, executive director of the youth-led community agency Friends in Trouble, and 91��ɫ grad Alex Lovell [BA Spec. Hons. ’02, MA ’06], now a doctoral student at Queen’s University, introduced each award recipient and outlined their research contributions, volunteer activities and future study plans.

Above: From left, front row, youth-led committee leaders Abubakar Sultan, Edwin Chacon; middle row, Alexander Toolsie, Erica Holness, Taneese Jones, Olivia Agyemang, Tara Sherif, Suhentha Suthaharan; back row, co-chairs Lovell and Antonias Clarke

The youth-led committee leaders recognized at the event were:

Olivia Agyemang, Westview Centennial Secondary School
Edwin Francis White Chacon, Emery Collegiate Institute
Ann Duong, Earl Haig Secondary School
Nicola Holness, University of Windsor
Taneese Jones, Westview Centennial Secondary School
Suhentha Suthaharan, C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute
Alexander Toolsie, 91��ɫ co-op student
Tara Sherif, Westview Centennial Secondary School
Abubakar Sultan, Emery Collegiate Institute

The youth research interns recognized at the event were:

Ryan Edwards, 91��ɫ
Stephanie Henry, Seneca College
Femi Lawson, Ryerson University
Funmilola Lawson, 91��ɫ
Stephanie Lucas, Westview Centennial Secondary School
Aziz Mohammed, Northview High School
Enoruwa Osagie, William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute
Muzna Rehman, Westview Centennial Secondary School
Judy Truong, Weston Collegiate Institute

Uzo Anucha, professor in 91��ɫ’s School of Social Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, co-chairs the ACT for Youth Project with Sue Wilkinson, executive director of the .

ACT is funded through a $1M grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. For more information on the Act for Youth Project, visit their website.

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SSHRC-funded study: Military kids under stress, isolated, depressed

fmaquito — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Teens in military families are often burdened by additional emotional stress when a parent is deployed to Afghanistan, according to a new Canadian study, wrote :

Researchers from the University of New Brunswick, the University of Alberta, Ryerson University, and 91��ɫ released the findings of their groundbreaking research on Thursday that examined students at Oromocto High School near Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, who recently had a parent serving in the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.

The researchers reported the teens worried their parents would not return home or would come back "different."

The study found that stress caused concerns at home. The young people felt a sense of responsibility for the emotional stability of their other parent and for any younger siblings at home. The teen felt additional stress if the parent remaining in Canada was having difficulty with the other parent being away on the military mission.

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The teens reported feelings of isolation in attempting to deal with those problems, according to the study.

In particular, adolescent girls took on a large share of the family's emotional burden when one parent was overseas.

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[The] study was funded by the .It is a part of a larger study into the mental health and well-being of adolescents in military families.

The studywas covered by , the , the , and among other news outlets.

Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer, with files courtesy of YFile– 91��ɫ’s daily e-bulletin.

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Centre for Research on Work & Society's conference examining changing nature of work in global economy starts today

fmaquito — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:00:00 +0000

The changing nature of work in the global economy, modern labour movements, challenges faced by workers and their organizations, as well as forms of collective action undertaken to resist neo-liberalism – all of this will be explored at an upcoming conference, New Voices in Labour Studies 2010: Emerging Perspectives on Workers and Workplaces.

The conference will take place Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16, from 8:30am to 5:30pm in the 91��ɫ Research Tower, Keele campus. It is presented by 91��ɫ’s Work & Labour Studies Program, the 91��ɫ Centre for Research on Work & Society, Ryerson University and the Labour College of Canada.

This interdisciplinary, two-day conference will include research on contemporary issues, papers that place these subjects in historical perspective, and thematic panels and workshops on teaching and researching in the field of labour studies.

This is the fourth year for the conference – the first in Toronto – where junior scholars in the field present their work and meet other emerging voices in labour studies, as well as interact with more senior scholars who serve as commentators on the panels.

“This conference showcases the labour studies community’s continuing vibrancy and impressive national reach,” says Professor Stephanie Ross, coordinator of 91��ɫ’s Work & Labour Studies Program. “Across Canada, labour studies attract researchers who combine rigorous cutting edge scholarship with a capacity to speak to the real and pressing challenges we face in our working lives. Anyone with an interest in how to make work and the economy more socially just will take a lot from this conference.”

The conference is sponsored at 91��ɫ by the Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, and the Department of Geography, and at Ryerson by the Department of History, the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Arts, the Office of the Vice-President of Research & Innovation, and the Centre for Labour-Management Relations. In addition, the Canadian Labour Congress’s Labour College of Canada has also provided much-appreciated support.

For more information, visit the Centre for Research on Work & Society or contact Stephanie Ross at stephr@yorku.ca.

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