A new book co-edited by 快播视频 Professor聽Giuseppina D鈥橝gostino, of Osgoode Hall Law School, examines artificial intelligence (AI) and the law. The book, Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (Thomson Reuters, 2021), is co-edited with Aviv Gaon, director at IDC Herzliya of experiential programs, and Carole Piovesan, co-founder of INQ […]
For years, scientists have been debating what might lay under the Martian planet鈥檚 south polar cap after bright radar reflections were discovered and initially attributed to water. But now, a new study published in聽Geophysical Research Letters,聽led by planetary scientists from the Lassonde School of Engineering at 快播视频, puts that theory to rest and demonstrates […]
Civil society organizations that partner with large corporations in efforts to reduce hunger in Canada are at risk of perpetuating household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada, according to a new critical case study led by 快播视频. The study, 鈥淭ake the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada鈥檚 hunger producing employment […]
A new study led by 快播视频 sheds light on the intense emotional and relational bonds formed with patients from the surgeon鈥檚 side of the bed. The findings, published in the聽British Journal of Neurosurgery,show pediatric neurosurgeons聽care deeply about their patients and feel emotionally invested as if they were their own children. In the study, lead […]
A new study that 快播视频's Schulich School of Business has collaborated on finds that corporations that share board members with other firms tend to have similar corporate governance practices due to a phenomenon known as "board interlocking." The findings are presented in a research paper titled 鈥淧eer Effects in Corporate Governance Practices: Evidence from […]
A new study from 快播视频鈥檚 Schulich School of Business has found that irrational feelings of guilt can play a larger than suspected role when it comes to selecting suppliers. The study, titled 鈥淪upplier Selection in the Aftermath of a Supply Disruption and Guilt: Once Bitten, Twice (Not So) Shy,鈥 showed that sourcing professionals who […]
Looking forward to a fall with hopefully one of the most important vaccination uptakes of children in a generation, a new study provides insights to help parents with reducing post-vaccination distress in younger kids. 聽The study, published in the journal聽PAIN, looked at preschool children who were at least four to five years old and what […]
Marcello Musto, professor of sociology at 快播视频 is recognized as a leading global authority on the work of the German philosopher聽Karl Marx聽and on Marxism. An accomplished scholar, Musto has devoted his academic career to reviving the understanding of Marx鈥檚 ideas and their applications to the contemporary world. Driven and passionate about the significance of […]
Our eyes move three times per second. Every time we move our eyes, the world in front of us flies across the retina at the back of our eyes, dramatically shifting the image the eyes send to the brain; yet, as far as we can tell, nothing appears to move. A new study out of […]
Canadian poet and 快播视频 alumna Canisia Lubrin has won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize for her book The Dyzgraphxst (Penguin/Random House, 2020), a long poem that examines the idea of selfhood while exploring issues of race, oppression and colonialism. Widely considered the most prestigious poetry award in Canada, the Griffin family gives out two $65,000 prizes annually: one […]
The world has been moving online and education is no exception. The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated the need for, and adaptation of, online learning technologies, with virtual classrooms becoming the new norm. Yan Shvartzshnaider, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at 快播视频's Lassonde School of Engineering, has been investigating […]
Canadian researchers have discovered that a bee thought to be one of the rarest in the world, as the only representative of its genus, is no more than an unusual specimen of a widespread species. Scientists with the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) and 快播视频 have reclassified the mystery bee, collected somewhere in Nevada […]
A new study co-authored by Charles H. Cho, professor of accounting and the Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business and Sustainability at 快播视频鈥檚 Schulich School of Business, has found that businesses located in cities with severe air pollution are more likely to cook the books. The study, titled 鈥淐ontaminated Heart: Does Air Pollution Harm Business […]
A study recently published in the聽Journal of Advertising聽shows that context harm crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require not only bespoke advertising efforts for various communities and societies but also an evolving, multistage approach not recognized in prior advertising literature on health messaging. This research was undertaken by Schulich School of Business Associate Professor聽Ela Veresiu聽in […]
Researchers from 快播视频 and the University of British Columbia have found social media use to be one of the factors related to the spread of COVID-19 within dozens of countries during the early stages of the pandemic. The researchers say this finding resembles other examples of social media misinformation ranging from the initial phase […]
Many health care providers lack confidence in their skill and ability to discuss sexuality and intimacy concerns with men who have experienced a spinal cord injury. This is one of the key findings of a comprehensive study of sexuality in men with spinal cord injury undertaken by newly minted York PhD聽Jacqueline Kathnelson. Working under the […]
A book co-authored by 快播视频 Professor Emeritus聽Jaime Llamb铆as-Wolff聽was recognized with a Talent Award by publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial during the third edition of the Caligrama Awards. Llamb铆as-Wolff teaches in the Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. The book, titled 隆SAB脥A QUE NO SAB脥A! and written in Spanish, […]
Jessica Vorstermans, an assistant professor in the Critical Disability Studies program in 快播视频's School of Health Policy & Management, is co-editing an upcoming special section of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) with Katie MacDonald, an assistant professor at Athabasca University. The special section is titled "Inequitable Ruptures, Rupturing Inequity: Theorizing the impacts of […]
Usman Khan, assistant professor in Civil Engineering, and Everett Snieder, a PhD candidate in Khan's lab, are working on machine learning techniques to predict when floods may occur, one of the best methods to mitigate flood-related damage and costs. Snieder was the project leader on a study published in 2019 that developed models using artificial neural […]
Most Black Canadians regularly experience racism, whether it is in criminal justice, education, employment, health care, or in the recently added COVID-19 pandemic scenario, a 快播视频-led ongoing survey reveals. 鈥淭his experience is not new, but because Black Canadians are typically classified under the larger visible minority group, their unique challenges have always been undermined,鈥 […]