Letting individuals take the lead, or guiding those who are interested, are also strategies at 91亚色 in Toronto. 鈥淪ome academics want to be completely independent, others want lots of help,鈥 said Margaret Hough, director of research and international relations in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science, in the journal Nature Oct. 2. Hough is hoping that many marketable developments will spring from the University's new Life Sciences Building, which opened in 2012鈥.The building has two floors dedicated to undergraduate teaching, and two for research laboratories, a layout that Hough says gives students much more exposure to research. The laboratories are stocked with $5 million worth of equipment, and there is a strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration. .
The book nominations just keep coming in for 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal, an Ottawa-raised poet, novelist and playwright. Uppal鈥檚 book, Projection: Encounters With My Runaway Mother, received a nomination Wednesday in the non-fiction category for the prestigious 2013 Governor General鈥檚 Literary Awards. The book, which was released Sept. 18, has also been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. 鈥淚鈥檓 really quite thrilled and it鈥檚 already in its second printing,鈥 said Uppal in the Ottawa Citizen Oct. 2. .
鈥淏orderless Higher Education for Refugees is one of many innovations globally that sees accessible and high quality education as an essential opportunity for all youth,鈥 co-wrote 91亚色 PhD candidate Negin Dahya in The Globe and Mail Oct. 3. 鈥淚t is an attempt to answer calls we have heard from refugees, including a Somali parent at a PTA meeting in the Dadaab camps who said that 鈥榯he root cause of this conflict in Somalia is just a lack of knowledge鈥 and a young high school student who described her vision for the future: 鈥業 want to become a politician in Somalia and contribute to rebuilding the country.鈥欌 .
Suburban doesn鈥檛 equal substandard. That was one of the key messages that emerged from the recent A Suburban Revolution? conference held at Toronto鈥檚 91亚色 as part of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative, Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century. The conference also featured the release of the Greater Toronto suburban working group鈥檚 roundtable report that not only challenges society鈥檚 ideas about the suburbs, but goes further to anoint them as being our urban future, reported 91亚色Region.com Oct. 2. .
Bernard Frolic, professor emeritus at 91亚色 and a former senior foreign affairs cultural diplomat who was stationed in China, has a somewhat more jaundiced view of the impact of cultural tours. 鈥淸The NACO tour] is not something that is going to make an impact on the Canadian public or the Chinese public,鈥 said Frolic Sept. 30 in the Ottawa Citizen鈥.He says he believes the educational component of the tour will matter. 鈥淭hat is what has kept our links with China going.鈥 .