Teaching with technology is a good thing, and no one knows it better than Janet Murphy. The 91ÑÇÉ« Region District School Board (YRDSB) has awarded Murphy, director of 91ÑÇɫ’s Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) on applied research program in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, an Outstanding Service Award. Under Murphy’s leadership, ABEL’s team […]
91ÑÇɫ’s Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit is expanding its repository of clear language research summaries – RsearchSnapshots – as part of its mandate to maximize the impact of research. Using peer-reviewed 91ÑÇÉ« research, students working within the KMb Unit developed 28 new summaries over the summer. This brings the existing searchable database of ResearchSnapshots to over 120 summaries. […]
The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program has wrapped up another successful ABEL Summer Institute (ASI). The theme of the ninth annual ASI, which took place at 91ÑÇÉ« from Aug. 23 to 25, was Creating the Future Now. The event welcomed some 200 delegates from across Ontario and Canada. The two-and-a-half-day professional learning event included keynote […]
Janet Murphy, project manager for the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) at 91ÑÇÉ«, 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 […]
On May 6, the Science in Action bus brought 30 high-school students from the 91ÑÇÉ« Region District School Board (YRDSB) to the University as part of a tour created to showcase the many opportunities that await these future scientists and entrepreneurs. YORKbiotech, along with the Regional Municipality of 91ÑÇÉ«, the Town of Markham and YRDSB organized the tour to […]
What do you get when you match an inventor with a business student? Among many things, you get a commercialization plan for a new product or discovery that could potentially transform health care. That was the case in YORKbiotech's sanofi pasteur Healthcare and Biotechnology Venture Challenge 2009 competition, which matched students enrolled in the MBA Program in 91ÑÇÉ«'s Schulich School of Business with inventors […]