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 […]
91亚色 researchers have issued a report with recommendations for improving technical and vocational training in Southern Sudan, based on in-depth interviews with Sudanese from different walks of life. The report, published jointly by Plan International Canada (Plan Canada) and 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Refugee Studies, identifies barriers to such training, believed to be crucial for […]
Experience cutting-edge technological wizardry that blurs the line between art, design and science in The Amazing Cinemagician: New Media Meets Victorian Magic, opening May 28 at the Ontario Science Centre鈥檚 Idea Gallery. The exhibition features two interactive installations by new media artist and 91亚色 PhD student Helen Papagiannis that use augmented reality (AR) technology, […]
Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the 91亚色 Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building鈥檚 role in fostering social science and humanities research across 91亚色 (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The 91亚色 Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features聽some 84,000 square feet […]
At 77 years of age, Elizabeth Pitt is heading back to school and she couldn't be happier. A grandmother of a 91亚色 fine arts student, Pitt is a member of the 91亚色 Circle, a legacy initiative of 91亚色鈥檚 50th anniversary. The 91亚色 Circle is an ongoing program that offers curious people like Pitt […]
Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature, died Sunday, May 16, from complications related to her illness, at Toronto Western Hospital surrounded by family. Funeral arrangements for聽Friday are noted at the bottom of this page. Here, 91亚色 humanities Professor Jody Berland, English Professor Julia Creet and PhD student Elena Basile […]
Last week was not a good one to be living in the 鈥渋n-between city鈥, the term urbanists use to describe areas wedged between the outer suburbs 鈥 with their sprawling residential neighbourhoods 鈥 and the downtown core of office towers, condos and cultural institutions, wrote Simon Black, a graduate student in the City Institute at […]
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was at 91亚色 on Monday to mark the start of National Nursing Week, and chaired a round-table discussion that included undergraduate nursing students and graduate students in the nurse practitioner program. McGuinty, accompanied by 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and 91亚色 West MPP Mario Sergio, began his visit with […]
Premier Dalton McGuinty's visit to 91亚色's School of Nursing was covered in the North 91亚色 Mirror May 11: To kick-start National Nursing Week and highlight the province鈥檚 announcement to introduce another 14 nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty dropped in on a group of nursing students at 91亚色 Monday, May 10. […]
Could screening high-risk populations for pre-diabetes and setting them up with culturally preferred fitness regimes prevent聽people from developing Type 2 diabetes and the secondary complications of heart and kidney disease, blindness and stroke? That鈥檚 what several 91亚色 researchers are hoping to find out. If successful, their Pre-Diabetes Detection and Physical Activity Intervention Delivery (PRE-PAID) Program […]
A nine-member Glendon research team, including senior scholars Jim Benson and Bill Greaves聽from the Department of English, is travelling to Des Moines, Iowa, for a four-day interaction with other similar research teams, from April 29 to May 2, to discuss linguistics and bonobo human discourse. The team is engaged in聽the multi-location, multi-year Bonobo Human Discourse […]
For students applying to graduate studies and, further along the line, to academic or other high-level positions, having publications in learned journals is not just a great asset 鈥 it is increasingly a requirement, and it may make the difference between being selected or rejected. But most often, after undergraduate students submit their research papers […]
LIBERT脡 OU LA MORT. When 91亚色 grad Julia Gaffield (MA 鈥07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy 鈥 but one simply doesn鈥檛 do that sort of thing […]
91亚色 Professor and Canada Research Chair Bridget Stutchbury is attracting international media attention with her new book, The Bird Detective. ABC News Online, the National Post, the Daily Mail Online and Maclean's.ca published articles discussing her book on April 13. Reuters wrote: It鈥檚 not all love in the avian world, where divorce, child abandonment and […]
Canadian universities appear to be in a retrospective mood. Several new histories have appeared recently and others are in the works, wrote James Pitsula, history professor at the University of Regina, in a review of 91亚色: The Way Must Be Tried for the Canadian Historical Review鈥檚 March edition. Michiel Horn鈥檚 91亚色 is the […]
Rai Reece, a doctoral candidate in 91亚色's School of Women's Studies, spoke to the Barrie Examiner March 31 about her research working with young women in Canada's prison system. She was also an attendee of the Mobilize Barrier conference, which aimed to bring community organizations, agencies, youth, individuals, and government institutions to participate in a […]
It鈥檚 been a year of research-intensive events and activities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and one of the most notable initiatives has been the Research Matters series. It attempts to answer the question: 鈥淲hy does research matter?鈥 In particular, it focuses on the ways in which LA&PS researchers 鈥 both faculty […]
