A summer institute organized by the Faculty of Education in collaboration with the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) will bring together teachers, educators, community members and local artists to explore new ways of teaching and learning with a specific focus on the inter-relationships of art, environmental knowing and social justice. Organized by the 91亚色 Centre […]
Chemistry Professor Derek Wilson has been awarded $100,000 in funding under the Ontario government鈥檚 Early Researcher Awards program.聽聽 91亚色 West MPP Mario Sergio made the announcement Tuesday. 91亚色鈥檚 research investment of $50,000 will match the funds for the award.聽 The Early Researcher Awards program helps promising, recently appointed Ontario researchers build research teams of […]
Researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at 91亚色 have been awarded more than $11.9 million from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants, part of $237 million in funding and awards recently announced, span across nine 91亚色 Faculties and support research that improves the quality of life of Canadians, […]
91亚色 bestowed titles of the聽highest order upon four of its long-serving faculty members at Spring Convocation this year. Historian Nicholas Rogers and mathematician Jianhong Wu were named distinguished research professors for sustained and outstanding scholarly, professional or artistic achievement largely accomplished at 91亚色.聽聽 Political scientist David Dewitt and education scholar Don Dippo were named University […]
Five students were honoured recently for their research on Asia or the Asian diaspora聽by the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). For 91亚色 PhD candidate Conely de Leon in the School of Women鈥檚 Studies, the money that came with the award will help her fund her dissertation fieldwork in Manila, Philippines, during the upcoming academic […]
Ever wonder what happens in bathrooms when you鈥檙e not looking? 91亚色 sexuality studies Professor Sheila Cavanagh, author of the book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination, wrote a play about the secret sex life of bathrooms. Queer Bathroom Monologues promises you will never look at the toilet in the same way after witnessing […]
Following on the heels of the federal government鈥檚 new India Engagement Strategy, 91亚色 has signed a University-wide collaborative academic agreement with India鈥檚 University of Calcutta. The agreement was signed by 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and Suranja Das, vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, during a special ceremony聽on June 20. 聽 Above: From […]
91亚色 is launching a new project aimed at enhancing girls鈥 leadership potential and engagement in civic life, with a community forum taking place today, from 11am to 2:30pm, in the Vanier College Renaissance Room, 001 Vanier College on聽the聽Keele campus. The project, "Engaging Girls, Changing Communities: Examining Girls鈥 Processes of Civic Engagement and Leadership (EGCC)," […]
Non-ecologists, here is your word for the day: biome. It means a very large ecosytem, and the boreal聽biome comprises about 60 per cent聽of Canada鈥榮 land area. It聽includes聽more than two million lakes and聽accounts for about 85 per cent of Canada's聽freshwater and聽some 25 per cent聽of global wetlands. Despite the magnitude of this resource, an increasing number of […]
Celebrate the birds and the bees tomorrow at the Pollinators Festival. Learn why the bees are at risk with 91亚色 Professor Laurence Packer in the Department of Biology and about the social life of honey bees with the Toronto Beekeeping Co-operative. The Pollinators Festival, part of International Pollinator Week, will take place from 8am to […]
Enslavement, slaveholders, international law, wartime abuses and forced marriage are just some of the areas speakers from Canada, the聽US and the UK will discuss at an upcoming conference on modern slavery. Modern Slavery, Human Rights and Development will take place from June 26 to 28 at 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. The conference is organized by 91亚色聽Professor […]
91亚色 environmental studies Professor Peter Victor has been named the recipient of this year鈥檚 prestigious Canada Council Molson Prize in the social sciences for outstanding lifetime achievement. Victor, a聽renowned research professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, is being recognized for his trailblazing research which has led to the emergence of a new discipline […]
If where you鈥檙e born, live and work 鈭 and the health-care system you access 鈭 determines a lot about how healthy you鈥檒l be, what can local governments and community agencies do to improve your well-being? The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded 91亚色 and the United Way of 91亚色 Region $93,000 to […]
The brain's ability to change or adapt across a person's lifespan is much greater than originally thought and scientists are still discovering just how far that plasticity goes. At the upcoming International Conference on Plastic Vision at 91亚色, some 24 researchers from around the world will discuss their latest findings. "We try to touch on […]
Conference driven by 91亚色 research in digital media, psychology, vision and computer science The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, a one-of-a-kind gathering of experts in stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment, takes place in Toronto June 11 to 14. Major figures from the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Canada will convene at TIFF Bell Lightbox to […]
Some theories point to delayed commitments and the instabilities inherent in today's youth as聽the prime determinant of their聽careers, but psychology Professor Shmuel Shulman of Bar-Ilan University in Israel says their vast array of experiences, their聽individual personalities and their ability to relate to others聽may also play a role. Shulman, a visiting scholar at the LaMarsh Centre […]
Called 鈥渞emarkable鈥 and 鈥渟ometimes hilarious鈥, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987), edited by 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Honor Ford-Smith, will launch Monday. Readings of short excerpts of each of the three plays, considered an intertwining memory, violence, creativity, belonging and dispossession during a ten-year period in Jamaica, will take place June 6 at 7pm, […]
Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality […]
91亚色 Professor Peter A. Victor has been appointed chair of Ontario鈥檚 Greenbelt Council, which makes recommendations for the protection of more than 1.8 million acres of agricultural and environmentally sensitive land in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. 鈥淒r. Victor brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and insight to the Greenbelt Council,鈥 said Minister of Municipal […]
Robert Hach茅, a聽molecular聽and cellular biologist and biochemist, will assume the role of vice-president research & innovation at 91亚色 for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2011. The announcement of Hach茅's appointment was made yesterday by 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. 鈥淚 am thrilled that Dr. Hach茅 is coming to 91亚色,鈥 said聽Shoukri. 鈥淒r. […]
