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President Shoukri names internationalization, online learning and changing demographics among challenges facing universities

91��ɫ 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 […]

Osgoode Professor Neil Brooks launches The Trouble with Billionaires with Linda McQuaig

In their new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, 91��ɫ Professor Neil Brooks, a tax law expert at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Canadian author Linda McQuaig make the case that the massive fortunes of the ultra-rich – widely considered benign or even beneficial to society – are actually detrimental to everyone else. The glittering lives of […]

Professor Dawn Bazely, director of IRIS, on climate change and Hamilton-area deer populations

An expert in forest ecology is likening an animal rights group’s claim that deer aren’t a threat to Iroquois Heights Conservation Area to those who still deny climate change is underway, wrote the Hamilton Mountain News and the Ancaster News Oct. 14: Dawn Bazely, director of 91��ɫ’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability […]

Toronto Star covers 91��ɫ-Baycrest research collaboration on Alzheimer's disease and bilingualism

Bilingual speakers can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and its symptoms for between four and five years, according to studies conducted by researchers at Toronto’s Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, wrote the Toronto Star Oct. 15 : In a soon to be published study three researchers from Baycrest – Ellen Bialystok, Fergus Craik and […]

91��ɫ researchers respond to New 91��ɫ Times book review to defend Great Ape Trust's scientific integrity

Ten academics, including James Benson and William Greaves, professors emeriti at Glendon College, and Stuart Shanker, distinguished research professor in philosophy & psychology in 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Health and director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative, wrote a letter to The New 91��ɫ Times' Sunday Book Review section Oct. 17 in which they respond […]

Professor Joe Baker: Why kids should sample various sports instead of specializing early

Professor Joe Baker in the Faculty of Health's School of Kinesiology & Health Science spoke to the Vancouver Sun about whether children gain advantages by specializing early in one sport: The era of sports specialization at a young age is upon us, despite alarm bells sounded by medical professionals who say we are putting young […]

Professor Ellen Bialystok interviewed in The Wall Street Journal about building more resilient brains

A lifetime of speaking two or more languages appears to pay off in old age, with recent research showing the symptoms of dementia can be delayed by an average of four years in bilingual people, wrote The Wall Street Journal online Oct. 11: Over time, regularly speaking more than one language appears to strengthen skills […]

When do we stop looking for life on Mars? Professor Jack McConnell on the MATMOS project

Will we ever be able to say there is nothing alive on Mars? asked Stephen Strauss in a column for CBC News online Oct. 8: Exactly how do we decide when it's time to end the focus on our planetary neighbour and turn our primary exploratory efforts elsewhere? I ask in part because a casual reader […]

Remember when you used to smile for your passport? Professor Robert Latham on security and cultures of distrust

Political science Professor Robert Latham, director of the 91��ɫ Centre for International and Security Studies, says that while American security has gone to great efforts to be welcoming to visitors, most everyone is subject to a “culture” of distrust and suspicion, wrote the Toronto Star online Oct. 8: “The question becomes at what point does […]

Why some smart people do dumb things: Professor Maggie Toplak on intelligence and rationality

Why is it that some smart people do really dumb things? That’s the question 91��ɫ psychology Professor Maggie Toplak is trying to answer through her research on rationality. What she’s found is that intelligence as measured by IQ tests is not the same as rationality or a rationality quotient (RQ). “There’s a folk idea that […]

CBC covers Professor Stephen Gaetz's study of Toronto's young homeless population and crime

Almost three-quarters of homeless young people in Toronto say they have been the victim of multiple crimes, a new survey suggests, wrote CBC News online: “Being homeless means constant exposure to dangerous people and places,” said the report, "Surviving Crime and Violence: Street Youth and Victimization in Toronto". It was released Monday. While most criminal […]

91��ɫ-led legal challenge helps strike down Ontario prostitution law

A Superior Court justice gutted the federal prostitution law in Ontario on Tuesday, allowing sex-trade workers to solicit customers openly and paving the way for judges in other provinces to follow suit, wrote The Globe and Mail Sept. 29: Justice Susan Himel struck down all three Criminal Code provisions that had been challenged – communicating […]

Canadian Jewish News covers Sherman Health Science Research Centre opening

It used to be a hockey arena. Now it houses the latest functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, wrote the Canadian Jewish News Sept. 22: Last week, 91��ɫ officially opened the Sherman Health Science Research Centre, a facility for research in brain and vision, biomechanics, virtual reality and robotics. Planning for the facility, which […]

VIDEO: Professor Michael Jenkin's AquaPad tablet computer allows divers to communicate at depth with underwater robots

You would balk at getting an iPad wet, but a tablet computer has now been designed to work deep under the sea – not to allow divers to check e-mail, but so that they can communicate with underwater robots working in hard-to-reach or dangerous locations, such as the inside of shipwrecks or caves in coral […]

Shermans’ investment made 91��ɫ's state-of-the-art Health Science Research Centre possible

The opening last week of a new state-of-the-art health research centre was made possible by a $5-million investment by 91��ɫ Foundation board member Honey Sherman and her husband Dr. Barry Sherman, president and CEO of Apotex Inc., wrote the Jewish Tribune Sept. 21: The project brings scientists who study the brain and vision, virtual […]

Professor Ali Kazimi weighs in on human brains and new understanding successful 3D filmmaking demands

James Stewart, a director and founder of Geneva Films, a Toronto-based company specializing in 3-D commercial productions, is in the first wave of people with a great deal of experience filming in 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star Sept. 18: Stewart is in the first wave of people with a great deal of experience filming in […]

Audio: Professor Anne Russon speaks to Quirks & Quarks about how orangutans communicate using mime

Anne Russon, a cognitive ecologist and professor of psychology in 91��ɫ’s Glendon College, spoke about orangutans’ ability to communicate using mime, on CBC Radio’s “Quirks & Quarks” Sept. 18. You can listen to Russon's interview with host Bob McDonald on Quirks & Quarks' Website.  The interview begins at the 1:30 mark. Russon has observed 18 […]

Professor Jim Whiteway recognized for contributions to space science

The Vancouver Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is holding its annual International Astronomy Day event in conjunction with [an event at Simon Fraser University (SFU)], wrote BC’s Burnaby Now Sept. 11. The society will host guest speaker Jim Whiteway of 91��ɫ for a lecture at 4pm. “He’s a big-time Canadian space […]

Video: President Mamdouh Shoukri highlights research success in video welcoming students back to campus

91��ɫ President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri is welcoming back students for another academic year a little differently than usual. This year, the president is providing an update through a new video on issues and initiatives that affect the entire 91��ɫ community: In the high-definition video, also available on the Office of the President website […]

Faculty of Health student's Facebook study sparks international media attention and debate

Compelled to tell your 500 Facebook chums every time you can’t find your sunglasses? Want the world to know you look like Robert Pattison? Post new Photoshopped pictures every day? You, my friend, are narcissistic and insecure, wrote the Toronto Star Sept. 8. The Star was only one of Toronto's papers to cover Soraya Mehdizadeh’s […]