Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Jinyan Li is one of six people to receive the 2010 Chinese Canadian Legend Award from the Asian Business Network Association. The award was presented to Li on Oct. 30 at a gala in Richmond Hill. Right: Jinyan Li The Chinese Canadian Legend Award recognizes and honours Chinese Canadians who […]
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of Distinguished Research Professor, to be conferred at the spring or fall 2011 convocation. The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded for life and evolves into a Distinguished Research Professorship Emeritus/a on retirement. All of 91亚色鈥檚 Distinguished Research Professors are encouraged to continue their involvement in […]
Ian Mosby (MA '06), a 91亚色 PhD history student, has won the Nicholas C. Mullins Award for his essay, titled 鈥淭hat Won-Ton Soup Headache鈥: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food, 1968鈥1980鈥. 鈥淚 was surprised and truly honoured鈥.I'm very lucky to have had such a supportive group of friends, supervisors, and […]
91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri is welcoming back students for another academic year a little differently than usual. This year, the president is providing an update through a new video on issues and initiatives that affect the entire 91亚色 community: In the high-definition video, also available on the Office of the President website […]
Despite good intentions, education systems can still succumb to the influence of flawed perceptions of meritocracy, says 91亚色 PhD candidate Gillian Parekh (BEd '02, MA '09)聽in a recent winning paper. That means, in at least two parts of the world, governments' prioritization of economic returns can trump students' rights to equitable and quality educational opportunities. […]
A 91亚色 doctoral student, who discovered a new species of bee on his way to the lab one morning, has completed a study that examines 84 species of sweat bees in Canada. Nineteen of these species 鈥 including the one Jason Gibbs found in downtown Toronto 鈭 are new to science because they have […]
"It鈥檚 expensive doing research up there" in the High Arctic, says聽Elizabeth Miller. Flying all your equipment and four months鈥 worth of food and supplies costs thousands of dollars when you have to transfer three times en route from Toronto聽鈥 via Ottawa, Iqaluit and Resolute 鈥 to get to Polar Bear Pass on Bathurst Island. Research […]
91亚色 media relations staff Janice Walls and Melissa Hughes, frequent contributors to 91亚色 Research News, have been recognized by the annual Council for the Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence awards. The pair received a top-level gold award in a worldwide competition for a series of five 91亚色 news releases that […]
Professors' SSHRC-funded project involves research collaboration with the Toronto District School Board A project led by 91亚色 Faculty of Education Professors Heather Lotherington and Jennifer Jenson at Joyce Public School in North 91亚色, and funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),聽has received two awards. The 91亚色-Joyce Public School Multiliteracies […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
91亚色 music professor and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico has much to celebrate this spring. Just as her latest CD was being released, she received word that she had won the inaugural Harry Freedman Recording Award and an Ontario Arts Council grant to support her next recording project. 3 Concerti, Petrowska Quilico鈥檚 23rd CD and her […]
91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor in African history聽Paul Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, was chosen over 10 other nominees to receive this year's Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the […]
91亚色 psychology Professor Shayna Rosenbaum has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship, which she says will help take her work on episodic memory to a new level, not otherwise possible at this early stage in her career. 鈥淭he award provides me and my students with the flexibility to continue a line of research that […]
91亚色 has been awarded a grant to establish a European Union Centre of Excellence(EUCE). Recognized for the excellence, breadth and depth of its European Union (EU) studies and scholarly activities, 91亚色 will receive funding of $480,000 over three years to integrate the University鈥檚 existing research, teaching, outreach and networking activities on Europe and the […]
