On June 12, 2012, 91亚色's Knowledge Mobilization Unit聽received the Knowledge Economy Network Best Practice Award from the European-based Knowledge Economy Network (KEN). The award, which was part of a group聽announced by the network was聽presented during the network's annual forum, which took place June 11 and 12,聽in Maribor, Slovenia. KEN is an European nonprofit association that […]
David Phipps, director of 91亚色's聽Research Services and Knowledge Exchange, has been named the most influential knowledge broker in Canada, according to a report by Knowledge Mobilization Works,聽a consulting and training company based in Ottawa. The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization 100, a survey run by Knowledge Mobilization Works, asked respondents to rank the biggest influences of their […]
Imagine the stress of uprooting your family to make a new life in a new country in a new language. For women, adapting can be a very different experience than that of their children. Depending on their resilience and their situation, some adapt better than others. Nazilla Khanlou knows. An immigrant herself, she's been studying […]
What makes us sick? Is it genetics or lifestyle? Is it聽too many burgers, too much alcohol, not enough exercise? Not according to 91亚色 Professor Dennis Raphael, who, like the fourth-century BC philosopher Plato, attributes poor health to living conditions. Things like income level and people鈥檚 access to food, housing, education, and聽health and social services, are […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there鈥檚 a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
Last week was not a good one to be living in the 鈥渋n-between city鈥, the term urbanists use to describe areas wedged between the outer suburbs 鈥 with their sprawling residential neighbourhoods 鈥 and the downtown core of office towers, condos and cultural institutions, wrote Simon Black, a graduate student in the City Institute at […]
A lunchtime panel featuring presentations by 91亚色 researchers and urban planning professionals will wrap up two recent research projects tomorrow聽鈥 "In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability", based out of聽the City Institute at 91亚色 (City),聽and geography Professor Lucia Lo's "Infrastructure in 91亚色 Region: A GIS Analysis of Human Services". The panel discussion, […]