As a new year emerges, YFile looks back on 2016 and offers a snapshot of the year鈥檚 highlights.聽鈥淵ear in Review鈥 will run as a four-part series, and will feature a random selection of top news stories published in聽YFile. Here are the stories and highlights for July聽to September聽2016, as chosen by聽YFile editors.
July
Faculty of Health Distinguished Research Professor Ellen Bialystok, Faculty of Education Professor Stephen Gaetz and Osgoode Hall Law School Professor David Vaver were among the 113 new appointments to the Order of Canada. In total, some 13 individuals with connections to 91亚色 were named to the Order of Canada.
A variety of saplings that were part of a Bioplan forest developed for the Art Gallery of 91亚色's exhibit "What We Lose in Metrics" were transplanted to a site near the Stong Pond on the Keele campus. The forest is now a permanent part of the University's landscape and future ecology.
Glendon Professor Roberto Perin was the recipient of the 2016 Principal's Research Excellence Award, an honour given annually by Glendon to recognize full-time faculty members who have made an outstanding contribution to research in the past three years.
Donald Ipperciel
A new partnership between Glendon College and the emlyon business school in France will offer students the opportunity to combine liberal arts with business education, earn two university degrees and benefit from internships in France, Canada or other countries where French is an official language.
91亚色, along with partners Southlake Regional Health Centre and the University Health Network, received $15 million in federal funds to develop new patient-centred health technologies. The announcement was made July 21 by Navdeep Bains, minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and the minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).
August
Current and former Lions headed to聽Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games. Named to Team Canada were聽Lions thrower Brittany Crew, Lions boxer Arthur Biyarslanov, former Lions sprinter Khamica Bingham, former Lions taekwondo competitor Melissa Pagnotta and honorary degree recipient and tennis player Daniel Nestor.
Professor Kenneth McRoberts, former Principal of 91亚色's Glendon College, was named to France's National Order of Merit and appointed to the rank of Knight during a ceremony on April 25 at the French Consul General's residence in Toronto.
Modified schematic of the hypothesized functional connections mediating the trans-saccadic integration of visual information from Dunkley et al. (2016)
91亚色 researchers have shown, for the first time, areas of the brain that are sensitive to whether an object looks the same, or different, after making an eye movement. The study was conducted out of Professor Doug Crawford鈥檚 Visuomotor Neuroscience Lab.
Two research projects led by 91亚色 received a combined $2.16 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Michaela Hynie and Jonathan Weiss, both from the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health, were selected to receive grants in the latest round of CIHR funding decisions.
In a study published in the Journal of Business Ethics in July 2016 titled 聽"A Citation Analysis of Business Ethics Research: A Global Perspective," 91亚色 ranked as the No. 1聽academic institution in the world in terms of quality of business ethics journal publications.
September
The OSIRIS REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) undergoing testing
OSIRIS-REx 鈥 the first-ever sampling mission by NASA to the distant asteroid Bennu 鈥 was successfully launched into space on Sept. 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
91亚色's world-class expertise in vision research received a $33.3 million Canada First Research Excellence Fund grant that will support the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) program.
Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan paid a visit to 91亚色's Keele campus in September to聽announce $163 million in Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada funding. More than 25 research projects at 91亚色 received a total boost of $7 million of the federal funding.
Poonam Puri (top) and Catriona Sandilands
Professors Poonam Puri and Catriona Sandilands were named as two of only five scholars across Canada to be awarded prestigious research fellowships by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation this year.
At the International Congress of Entomology on Sept. 25, 91亚色 Professor Amro Zayed in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, received the 2016 C. Gordon Hewitt Award from the Entomological Society of Canada.
Check back in the next聽edition of聽YFile聽for Year in Review:聽Top headlines at 91亚色, October聽to December聽2016.