The Faculty of Arts proudly congratulates student Sarah Wiley for receiving Ontario’s , a new award to recognize students, student leaders, institutions, college and university community members for their outstanding efforts in sexual violence prevention.
Researchers at The Games Institute come from a range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, engineering and computer science, to study the past, present and future of games.
The University of ݮƵ and York University have been awarded a grant from the to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past.
The line between research and teaching is intentionally blurred for Professor Steven Bednarski, whose students are as passionate about scholarship and dissemination as he is.
When Pat Rowe, Professor Emerita of psychology, first arrived with her husband, Philip Bryden, at the University of ݮƵ in 1963, it was just “one or two new buildings in a muddy field,” she says, “but the place conveyed a sense of excitement, energy and challenge not found in more traditional institutions.”
The third Convocation ceremony this week takes place at 10:00 a.m. today. 677 undergraduates, 138 Master's, and 24 PhDs will graduate this morning. John North, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, will bear the mace. Birgit Moscinski will sing the national anthem.
UݮƵ's 60th anniversary convocation lecture was delivered by Roberta Jamieson, one of Canada’s important visionaries and leaders. Hosted in partnership with the ݮƵ Aboriginal Education Centre and the Faculty of Arts, Ms. Jamieson addressed “Education and Reconciliation, the Path to Canada’s Future”.
Ryan Haughton consults on natural resource management for the United Nations Development Programme in Jakarta, but he also makes time to explore and learn more about the people and cultures of Southeast Asia.
Congratulations to Linda Warley, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, and professor of English for winning the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Graphic, co-edited with Candida Rifkind of the University of Winnipeg.
Though she grows her own herbs for tinctures, Professor Alice Kuzniar is not a proponent of the alternative medical practice of homeopathy. “I see myself as an intellectual historian,” says the author of The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism