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Fermilab names Nigel Lockyer as new director

91亚色 alumnus and physicist Nigel Lockyer (BSc. Spec. Hons. 鈥75), has been appointed the new director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, reported Nature.com, The New 91亚色 Times , The Wall Street Journal and others June 21. In September he will move from his post as director of TRIUMF, Canada鈥檚 national […]

TEDx91亚色U: Spreading great ideas with passion

91亚色 will be making its sophomore contribution to a worldwide movement of talks and idea-sharing by hosting聽TEDx91亚色U on聽March 10 at the Glendon campus. TED, which stands for technology, entertainment and design, is a series of not-for-profit conferences that started in 1984 in Silicon Valley as a way for employees of tech companies to share […]

Worldwide Short Film Festival salutes 91亚色's Film Department with retrospective

Hailing it as 鈥渙ne of the best film schools in Canada鈥, the Canadian Film Centre鈥檚 Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) is honouring 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Film with a dedicated retrospective screening at the Royal Ontario Museum on June 1. Now in its 17th year,聽WSFF is the leading venue for the exhibition and promotion of […]

91亚色 Film Downtown brings current graduate work to the big screen

The Department of Film celebrates the work of recent alumni and current candidates in the master's program in film production with a screening of graduate works from 2009 to 2011. Dubbed "Depth of Field", two free programs of short films will be screened tonight, March 7, at 7pm and 9pm at Toronto鈥檚 TIFF Bell Lightbox. […]

Professor Rishma Dunlop and recent 91亚色 grad are finalists for CBC Literary Awards

The long list of finalists for the 2010 CBC Literary Awards has been announced, and 91亚色 English and education Professor Rishma Dunlop and alumna Kilby Smith-McGregor (BA Hons. 鈥09) are among them. Dunlop鈥檚 Home, Roses, Hauntings and Smith-McGregor鈥檚 The Infinity Pool are both vying for top spot in the non-fiction category, along with 24 other […]

Professor Katherine Knight's documentary on Wanda Koop to open Reel Artists Film Festival

91亚色 visual arts Professor Katherine Knight鈥檚 documentary film about influential Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop in some ways mirrors the style found in Koop鈥檚 paintings: full of colour and precise, playing with the idea of glancing and observation, and entering into a world where the real and the abstract co-exist. The world premiere of the 52-minute […]

91亚色 study of parents and loss receives international attention

One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children, and the task begins immediately, according to 91亚色 psychology Professor Stephen Fleming, wrote the Times of India and other newspapers and websites in the US and South Asia Feb. 16: From the moment […]

Adjunct Professor Lata Pada receives one of India's highest awards

Alumna Lata Pada (MFA 鈥96), adjunct professor in the Department of Dance's graduate program, has already received Canada鈥檚 highest award 鈥 the Order of Canada, in 2009聽鈥 but now she can add one of India鈥檚 highest honours to her collection. In January, Pada accepted the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award聽for her contributions to Indian dance and […]

91亚色 PhD graduate and alumna wins two prizes for history of Ontario's summer camps

Historian and 91亚色 grad Sharon Wall (PhD 鈥03) has won two awards for her book, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55. In the spring, the book won the Canadian Historical Association's 2010 Clio Prize for Ontario, and now it has won the Champlain Society鈥檚 Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario […]

Graduate film students create visual showcase of 40 years of 91亚色 filmmaking

The Department of Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and is marking this milestone with a series of events highlighting past achievements and looking to the future. One of the 鈥渂irthday鈥 productions is The 40 Film, a specially commissioned compilation of one-minute clips from 40 student films made […]

91亚色 alumni shine at Toronto International Film Festival

Avant-garde, thrilling, provocative, brainy and fascinating are just a few of the words used to describe films directed by several 91亚色 alumni, as well as a current student, that are screening at this year鈥檚 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) . The 91亚色 talent among the 300 productions showing at TIFF Sept. 9 to 19 includes聽debut […]

Graduate students mobilize research to benefit communities through United Way of 91亚色 Region

When you鈥檙e a charitable organization in 91亚色 Region seeking a research partner to inform your strategic directions and priorities, whom do you turn to? If you鈥檙e United Way of 91亚色 Region (UWYR), you collaborate with 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit. This summer, three 91亚色 students will gain valuable experience through internships with UWYR鈥檚 Community […]

91亚色 filmmakers shine in the industry spotlight

91亚色 filmmakers are making headlines and shining in the industry spotlight. From film festival successes to prestigious awards, these cinematic storytellers have much to share. CineSiege, 91亚色鈥檚 annual juried student film festival, is often the harbinger for success at festivals around the world. After, the winner of the CineSiege Best Sound Award in 2009, is […]

Author Wayson Choy to deliver Asian Heritage Month Lecture at 91亚色 on May 25

Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year鈥檚 Asian Heritage Month Lecture at 91亚色 next Tuesday. In his lecture, 鈥淎sian Identity: Becoming Canadian鈥, Choy will review his personal insights into life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy 鈥 born in Canada in 1939聽鈥 will explore how […]

91亚色 grad and alumna discovers Haiti's long-lost Declaration of Independence

LIBERT脡 OU LA MORT. When 91亚色 grad Julia Gaffield (MA 鈥07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy 鈥 but one simply doesn鈥檛 do that sort of thing […]