The Toronto Star featured 91亚色's observance of National Sweater Day Feb. 9 and interviewed Amy Stewart, publicist in the Faculty of Fine Arts, who聽knitted her own sustainable 鈥100-mile" sweater. Stewart explained it was all made within 100 miles of her home. The Star said the University is proud of its green initiatives. It has achieved a 20 per cent energy reduction between 2007 and 2010 by retrofitting lighting, heating, cooling and water fixtures in older buildings 鈥 a total of 60 million kilowatt hours of electricity over three years. .
Bilingual children score higher on some cognitive tests than children who speak only English, a new Toronto study found, reported CBC News online Feb. 8. The story detailed the study co-authored by Ellen Bialystok, Distinguished Research Professor in psychology in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, and 91亚色 PhD student Raluca Barac. .
In a Feb. 9 Toronto Star story, airline expert Fred Lazar, an economics professor at 91亚色's Schulich School of Business, called WestJet鈥檚 plans for a regional airline "a much smarter move" than the alternative of entering the international market with wide-body aircraft. "They made the right decision - this will help them," he said of WestJet. .
The University of British Columbia鈥檚 student union, the Alma Mater Society, plans to聽 open a brewery on campus in August 2014, reported the Toronto Star Feb. 9. Assessing the market, Alan Middleton, a marketing professor at 91亚色's Schulich School of Business, noted: 鈥淪tudents are heavy drinkers - the 16-to-25 age group represents the vast majority of beer drinkers, and students are a large portion of that group." .
In a Feb. 9 feature about extreme card manipulator Max Vlassenko, the 19-year-old 91亚色 film student who gained fame for a Nokia commercial on YouTube, 91亚色region.com said his next gig in Las Vegas will pay as much as most students would earn in a year. .
Deseret News in Salt Lake City reported that 91亚色鈥檚 Leslie Greenberg, Distinguished Research Professor in psychology in the Faculty of Health, will present the annual counselling workshop at Brigham Young University, calling him 鈥渢he prophet of emotion-focused therapy鈥. .
The Seattle Times Feb. 8 spotlighted freshman basketballer Kevin Pangos, son of 91亚色 women鈥檚 basketball head coach Bill Pangos, as a key player in the drive for a National College Athletics Association tournament spot by the Gonzaga University Bulldogs of Spokane, Wash. Bill Pangos said of his son when young: "He'd be down in the basement on the tile floor and literally handle the ball for an hour, two hours in the wintertime." .