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 […]
New mothers who think they should be perfect parents might be at risk for postpartum depression, a new study suggests, wrote MSNBC.com July 7: The results show that a type of perfectionism in which individuals feel others expect them to be perfect, known as "socially-prescribed perfectionism," is associated with postpartum depression for first-time mothers. The […]
It鈥檚 safe to say that 91亚色 student Neil Wilson never expected that his real estate law professor鈥檚 idea for an essay topic would land him $3000, wrote Canadian Lawyer Magazine July 5: The Osgoode Hall Law School student鈥檚 essay, 鈥淧art performance: An invaluable tool in the practice of real estate law鈥, recently won the 2010 […]
The Michael Baptista Essay Prizes offer an opportunity for 91亚色 faculty to recognize outstanding student work at the undergraduate or graduate level in the area of Latin American and Caribbean studies. The annual competition recognizes聽outstanding scholarly essays of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean studies from a humanities, social science, business […]
Physics doctoral student Panagiotis Vergados (MSc '06) has found a new technique for improving the聽precision of global positioning systems (GPS) dual-frequency signals聽鈥 and won four national and international awards in three years for papers detailing how. Vergados developed this technique聽to get more accurate readings of the Earth鈥檚 thermal structure. It was designed for satellite-to-satellite GPS […]
After a聽review some 2,000 articles in 75 leading English-language journals worldwide, an article co-written by 91亚色 human resource management Professor Souha Ezzedeen was chosen as one of 20 official nominees for the 2009 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. The annual award, presented last month,聽is named for Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has […]
Much of what informs environmental thinking springs from a view that equates nature with sexually straight and queer with unnatural. The editors of a new book Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, turn those notions upside down. Co-editors Bruce Erickson (PhD 09鈥) and 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability & […]
Claire Wynveen (MFA 鈥09) is the first student on record in the Department of Theatre to be awarded a thesis prize by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her thesis encompassed her performance in the Theatre @ 91亚色 production of Peter Barnes鈥 macabre satire The Bewitched (see YFile, April 7, 2009) as well as a written […]
The first cohort of students graduating from 91亚色鈥檚 Neuroscience Graduate聽Diploma Program will present their leading-edge research today as part of the University鈥檚 first Neuroscience Research Day. The presentations will take place from 9am to 3:30pm in 163 Behavioural Sciences Building on 91亚色's Keele campus. Fifteen students will offer summaries of their research. The students come […]
Discovery 2010, the Ontario Centre of Excellence鈥檚 annual conference to showcase and celebrate Ontario innovation, is one of Ontario鈥檚 flagship programs that supports and promotes research at Ontario鈥檚 universities, colleges, research institutions and companies. Held May 17 and 18, Discovery 2010 was billed as 鈥淲here next Happens鈥 for Clean Tech, Health Tech, High Tech and […]
After an eight-year absence, North America鈥檚 largest swallow has returned to High Park, wrote the Toronto Star June 7. An excerpt of the complete article follows: Two pairs of purple martins, known for the purple-black feathers of mature males, are cohabiting in a colony house on the south edge of Grenadier Pond. The birds are […]
91亚色鈥檚 largest fundraising campaign came to a successful conclusion聽yesterday with a wrap event at Glendon Manor. 91亚色 to the Power of 50, which launched publicly in 2006, raised $207 million, exceeding its $200-million goal. Students, donors and other campaign supporters joined representatives from 91亚色 and the 91亚色 Foundation for a celebratory f锚te to […]
Six 91亚色 students聽have won聽five awards for their research on Asia or Asian diaspora this year from the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Vanessa Lamb (right), a second-year doctoral candidate in geography, is the 2010 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award recipient. Her research interests include the politics of the environment and development, feminist political ecology […]
Four students from 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Graduate Studies have won Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for research on everything from protecting vulnerable women to finding alternatives to the global takeover of organic agriculture. This is only the second year the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships have been awarded. 鈥淲e are delighted with the results of the Vanier […]
Canada鈥檚 ranking as the 12th worst country for bullying among 40 wealthy nations is an eye-opener, say the organizers of a childhood bullying prevention conference held at McMaster University, wrote The Hamilton Spectator May 29: 91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor in psychology,聽Debra Pepler, a PREVNet co-director and member of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, said people […]
Wendy Taylor, Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics and physics professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke with Bob McDonald about the DZero Experiment on CBC Radios鈥 鈥淨uirks & Quarks鈥 May 29. The interview is available on CBC's Web site. Taylor and other 91亚色 researchers played a key role in a […]
91亚色 English Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, who died May 16, has received the 2009 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English Section) posthumously for her most recent book, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry, co-edited with poet Di Brandt. The award is given annually by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) […]
Leading researchers from across southern Ontario will converge on 91亚色 on Friday to discuss the role that muscle plays in metabolism, heart health, aging and disease. The first annual Muscle Health Awareness Day, organized by 91亚色鈥檚聽 Muscle Health Research Centre, will bring together the latest findings on the contribution made by heart muscle and […]
91亚色 researchers have played a key role in a new finding that may help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter in our universe. The DZero collaboration of scientists at the United States聽Department of Energy鈥檚 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) submitted a finding to the journal Physical Review D, reporting significant differences between matter […]
Bridget Stutchbury, author of Silence of the Songbirds, recently stopped in Fredericton to warn that the bird population is dwindling, reported the Fredericton Telegraph-Journal May 20. A Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at 91亚色, Stutchbury says the Canadian bird population has been declining by one to two per cent a year […]
