Janet Murphy, project manager for the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) at 91亚色, participated in a panel at Canada 3.0 this week on learning in a digital society. The Stratford Gazette covered Murphy's remarks at the event in an article published May 12: The younger generations are living their lives with iPods blaring in […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury was interviewed on The National by CBC broadcaster Colleen Jones about the sex lives of birds May 12. Stutchbury, a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology, published The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds in April 2010. It explains how […]
Premier Dalton McGuinty's visit to 91亚色's School of Nursing was covered in the North 91亚色 Mirror May 11: To kick-start National Nursing Week and highlight the province鈥檚 announcement to introduce another 14 nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty dropped in on a group of nursing students at 91亚色 Monday, May 10. […]
In a May 8 review of Professor Bridget Stutchbury's new non-fiction book,聽 The Bird Detective, The Globe & Mail compared it to Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood. Stutchbury is a Canada Research Chair in聽 Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering: In […]
In a profile about Darren Wershler, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Waterloo Region Record touched on a forthcoming collaboration between Wershler and 91亚色 Professor Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication & Culture on May 7: Through his research, Wershler is working to bring about policy change. He is a principal investigator for […]
Dennis Raphael, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 School of Health Policy & Management in the Faculty of Health was quoted in the Aurora Banner's May 8 issue about his report, released April 29, that offers Canadians the opportunity to learn how their living conditions will determine whether they stay healthy or become ill: We鈥檙e products of […]
In last week鈥檚 Globe and Mail, there was a disturbing story about how passengers failed to help a 79-year-old man who was being mugged on a Toronto subway car, despite his cries for help, wrote Wendy Craig of Queen's University, Tracy Vaillancourt of the University of Ottawa and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology […]
As Canadians continue to live longer, they can expect to spend more years with their life partners, whatever old age brings, wrote The Globe and Mail May 7: In fact, the research suggests that, while there鈥檚 no guarantee that sticking it out will lead to happiness, good marriages often get better later in life. 鈥淭hey […]
Molly Ladd-Taylor, 91亚色 history professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and co-editor of the anthology Women Health and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945, discussed the impact of the birth control pill since it came on the market 50 years ago,on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淢etro Morning" in Toronto May 5. […]
Theodore Tolias, economics instructor at 91亚色's Schulich School of Business, discussed the financial crisis in Greece, on Radio Canada International鈥檚 鈥淭he Link鈥 May 5. The interview appears in Part 2 of the program at the 2:00 mark and runs until the 12:00 mark. Posted by Lia Novario, research events coordinator.
91亚色 researchers who designed and built a miniature space-borne pollution monitor are part of a team of Canadians being honoured with a 2010 Alouette Award from the Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institute (CASI). The annual prize, one of the top accolades for the advancement of space technology in Canada, was awarded Tuesday to the […]
Professor Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. Helm's novel has attracted media attention through reviews and interviews. Helm's brother, Richard, interviewed him about the novel May 2 in the Edmonton Journal: It's a tricky business this, writing about […]
Economic spinoff arguments for transit can be complex, wrote NOW Magazine April 29 in a story about efforts by Toronto Mayor David Miller to save the Transit City plan: If people use their cars less, for example, they may have more cash to spend on clothes or theatre tickets, but there might be less work […]
Martin Shadwick, a military analyst and research fellow in the 91亚色 Centre for International & Security Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has recently been quoted in several media outlets about his research on Canada's armed forces. He spoke to the Calgary […]
Cynthia Holmes, adjunct professor of real property in the Schulich School of Business, spoke to The Globe & Mail April 26 about her research on how housing and property market values change over the very long term. They go up with inflation, but don't provide significant real returns: She points to exceptions 鈥 for example, […]
Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. His is the author of The Projectionist, which was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, and In the Place of Last Things, a regional Commonwealth Writers鈥 Prize for Best Book. The Globe & […]
The 91亚色-led 3D FLIC research project celebrated its official launch April 23 at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto. 91亚色 professors Nell Tenhaaf, Laurie Wilcox from the Centre for Vision Research, and Ali Kazimi took part in the event's program. The Hollywood Reporter covered 3D FLIC's launch April 23: After losing traditional Hollywood film and TV […]
Stuart Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Health and director of the Milton & Ethel Harris Research Initiative, was featured on "The Hurried Infant," an audio documentary that ran on CBC's Ideas program April 22 and 23, 2010. The message? Mozart, and indeed any classical music will stimulate the […]
Peter Victor, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, was featured in the Hamilton Mountain News April 22. His recent book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, argues economic growth hurts the environment and has not eliminated poverty or provided full employment: 鈥淲e need a new measure of success,鈥 said Victor, […]
Maggie Toplak, associate professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health, spoke to TVO's "The Agenda" on April 20 about what IQ tests miss. Do intelligence and rationality go hand in hand? One of聽 Toplak's main areas of interest is reasoning and decision making. The clip runs approximately 14 minutes. Posted by […]