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Three professors from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ are among the new members of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and ScientistsÌýannounced today.
Members have reached a high level of achievement at an early stage of their careers. They represent the emerging generation of scholars and leaders in science and the arts in the country.
Ten years after daily physical activity was mandated in elementary schools, many Ontario teachers report students aren’t getting their 20 minutes of exercise each school day, says a University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ public health researcher.
Cindy Wei of British Columbia is one of four incoming first-year University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students who received aÌý, awarded for demonstrated leadership in areas such as academic excellence and entrepreneurship.
Wei joins the Kinesiology program in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences.
Fewer than half of psychology studies published can replicate their original results, according to University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researchers involved in the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted on the rate and predictors of reproducibility in a field of science.
Very sick children in need of mental health treatment are ending up in adult psychiatric units because there’s nowhere for them to go when they are in crisis, says a À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researcher.
The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and Pervasive Dynamics will develop and test wearable health technologies that can improve stroke rehabilitation as part of a new partnership aimed at transforming the health of older adults.
The joint research initiative, the first partnership between À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and the Canadian developer of medical devices, will be part of the new Advanced Aging ResearCH Centre (ARCH) at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.
Milton's newÌývelodromeÌýcould be a boon to track cycling longÌýafter the Pan Am Games are over, says À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researcher.
Providers of mental-health services still rely on intervention techniques such as physical restraint and confinement to control some psychiatric hospital patients, a practice which can cause harm to both patients and care facilities, according to a new study from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.