“ASPIRE” is a special edition of YFile publishing on select Fridays during the academic year. It showcases research and innovation at 91ɫ. “ASPIRE” offers compelling and accessible stories about the world-leading and policy-relevant work of changemakers in all Faculties and professional schools across 91ɫ and encompasses both discovery and applied research. “ASPIRE” replaces the previous special issue "Brainstorm."
In this issue
91ɫ design Professor Shital Desai combines her expertise in robotics with product design to create innovative solutions that are both inclusive and inspired.
Schulich Professor Ming Dong, whose research specializes in examining in behavioural and social finance, worked with two former PhD students to research the role that social networks played in emotional decision making among mutual fund managers in five hot spot cities in the United States.
A YSpace venture is using their innovative telehealth technology to pair Canadian health care expertise to local doctors in Ukraine.
Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux, a Glendon biology course director, is working to save the pancake tortoise that is native to some areas of Africa and assessing what it will take to develop a community-based conservancy plan.
Glendon associate professor of history Gillian A. McGillivray delves into Latin America's past through the lens of sugar. The result is her book Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959.