From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
Over the next four months, ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen will spend her days in Washington, DC鈥檚 Library of Congress poring over the 1952 diaries of Alan Lomax, the legendary field collector of folk music in the 20th century. For the past 10 years, Cohen, a 91亚色 lecturer and performer who specializes in Judeo-Spanish Sephardic songs, […]
Punishment isn鈥檛 the answer for kids who learned to bully at home, says a Toronto psychology professor, wrote Halifax鈥檚 Chronicle-Herald April 9. "If a child is bullied at home by his or her parents or siblings, they鈥檙e going to learn the patterns they need to learn about the use of power and aggression in relationships," […]
91亚色 chemistry students Jason Gregor and Fatima Panju placed among the top聽10 at the 39th Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), the largest undergraduate chemistry conference in the country. Above, toasting their success, from left, Reihaneh Shankaie, Fatima Panju, Maisam Halabi, Derek Wilson, Jason Gregor, Mark Sever, Luba Bryushkova and Mihiret Kedida. (Dana […]
Students Angela Deotto and Lilly Solomon recognized for poster projects If you were wandering through Vari Hall last Wednesday afternoon, you could have stopped and chatted with聽fourth-year psychology students about聽some pretty esoteric聽subjects. The rotunda was a maze of posters featuring聽the thesis projects of 78 students ready to explain whether聽eating disturbances are聽symptoms of depression, how to […]
Everyday life. Everyday people. Most of us say "everyday" almost every day. Academically, it is a term that聽has been theorized, used as a concept and developed into narratives. But what does it really mean? The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives is an upcoming Graduate Program in Humanities conference looking at the "everyday" as it relates to […]
A 91亚色 biology student has won the award for top Physiology & Toxicology Oral Presentation at the 24th annual Ontario Biology Day (OBD) held聽at Wilfrid Laurier University in March. Olimpia Del Duca, studying under 91亚色 biology Professor Andrew Donini, presented her paper, 鈥淐arbonic Anhydrase in the Anal Papillae of the Larval Mosquito, Aedes aegypti鈥, to […]
Artists of all stripes from around the world are reducing their carbon footprint in creative ways. Many prominent ones 鈥 including the Cirque de Soleil鈥檚 Gil Favreau 鈥 are coming to 91亚色 this month to share how at a conference on sustainability and the arts. Hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts, Staging Sustainability: Arts, […]
Last week, 91亚色 law Professor Obiora Okafor was elected to the advisory committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Nigerian-born professor brings his expertise in international law, human rights law,聽 and immigration and refugee law, especially as it relates to Africa, to the advisory committee. 鈥淭he committee is the think tank of the […]
With the West suffering from the after-effects of the financial crisis and revolution in the air in parts of the world, could it possibly be springtime for Marx? wrote The Globe and Mail March 26: "I'm optimistic about the explosion that's happened in Wisconsin," says Leo Panitch, a political science professor at 91亚色 [Faculty […]
Sheila Embleton,聽Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is this year's recipient of the 2010-11 91亚色 International Award. Embleton was nominated by 91亚色 Vice-President Academic聽& Provost Patrick Monahan for her leadership in being 鈥渁 strong proponent for internationalization鈥 and for providing a 鈥渂road and deep foundation on which we can […]
Hosted by the Canadian Studies Program and student club in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Canada Like You鈥檝e Never Heard it Before Lecture Series聽explores everything from economics and indigenous issues to Canadian government and poetry. The next instalment of the series will be delivered by Cate Sandilands, a professor in 91亚色's […]
Juno-nominated pianist and 91亚色 music Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico will launch her 24th and 25th CD, Glass Houses Revisited and The Liszt Anniversary Collection, at a concert Thursday at the Glenn Gould Studio. The CD launch and recital will take place at 7:30pm, March 17, at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, 250 Front St. […]
Departing from Sfax, a Tunisian city overlooking the Mediterranean, H茅di Bouraoui has travelled the world, from Europe to the United States to Canada where he lived for 30 years, teaching French and comparative literature at 91亚色鈥檚 Stong College, wrote Tandem News in its March 13 edition: His is a life dedicated to the study […]
Winnipeg born and raised Karlee Sapoznik, a PhD candidate in history at the Harriet Tubman Institute at 91亚色, was selected as a fellow for the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship that will take place in Israel from June 12 to June 20, wrote the Jewish Tribune March 9: She was recommended by Ruth Klein, national director […]
In the last decade, 10 of the articles published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence have stood out from the rest as the most cited. One of them was an article co-authored by members of 91亚色鈥檚 LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research, psychology Professor Jennifer Connolly and Distinguished Research Professor Debra Pepler in […]
Neuroscience researchers are increasingly coming to a consensus that bilingualism has many positive consequences for the brain, wrote the Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, in story that also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and on numerous US television news websites. Several such researchers travelled to this month鈥檚 annual meeting of the American Association for the […]
The long list of finalists for the 2010 CBC Literary Awards has been announced, and 91亚色 English and education Professor Rishma Dunlop and alumna Kilby Smith-McGregor (BA Hons. 鈥09) are among them. Dunlop鈥檚 Home, Roses, Hauntings and Smith-McGregor鈥檚 The Infinity Pool are both vying for top spot in the non-fiction category, along with 24 other […]
Mastering a second language can pump up your brain in ways that seem to delay getting Alzheimer's disease later on, scientists said Friday, wrote The Associated Press and The Canadian Press Feb. 18 [via sympatico.ca], in a story that was featured in reports by more than 300 newspapers, television stations and radio stations around the […]
The two winners of the 2010 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly papers on topics of relevance聽in the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies have been announced. At the undergraduate level, international studies student Margaret Bancerz won for her essay 鈥淐ounter-Hegemony and ALBA: The Answer to the FTAA鈥, while at the graduate level, […]
