Network News News Archive
Human Resources
Learn to optimize meeting time or incorporate play for team-building
February 20, 2018 —
Register for new professional development courses offered this spring by learning and organizational development (LOD), human resources.
Faculty of Arts
Food for Thought: Dried fish matters
February 20, 2018 —
Second talk in series focuses on the social economy of dried fish for livelihoods and food security
Faculty of Education
What a wonderful world it would be
February 16, 2018 —
Falling literacy rates across Western countries. An increasing number of students becoming unteachable. Focusing on top-down curriculum and pedagogical approaches, educational reforms demand evidence-based practice. To developmental psychologist and best-selling author Gordon Neufeld, all of this points to something dreadfully amiss in education.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Career fair connects employers with Rady students
February 15, 2018 —
Inaugural health-industry career fair held at Bannatyne campus
Faculty of Architecture
Local architectural intern wins Indigenous housing award
February 14, 2018 —
Evan Taylor,(B.E.D.) wins 2nd prize in the Architects Without Borders Indigenous Housing Competition
Faculty of Education
Students’ progress biggest reward to resource teachers
February 14, 2018 —
For Jennifer Soldier, a Sagkeeng First Nation high-school instructor, resource-teacher training is essential to improving the lives of students who need help the most.
Faculty of Law
Law Professors prove a valuable resource for information on juries following Stanley verdict
February 13, 2018 —
Faculty of Law professors research sheds light on legal issues
Faculty of Science
Puzzling it out: solving the mysteries of molecules, one spectrum at a time
February 13, 2018 —
For the uninitiated, microwave and infrared spectroscopy is the study of the movement of molecules on a microscopic level. Van Wijngaarden and her team research the properties of these structures, including the way they interact with one another. Crucial to our very existence, molecules make up everything in our world, including us.
Faculty of Science
Chances are: statistics Professor Elif Acar tells how a science project changed her life
February 12, 2018 —
As a statistician, Professor Elif Acar knows all about how to calculate the probability of a given scenario, taking into account scores of different variables. However, as skilled a statistician as Acar is, it’s unlikely she would ever have been able to predict her current situation as a professor of statistics at a Canadian university, given the facts of her own childhood.
Faculty of Science
Professor Hélène Perreault, recognized for outstanding work in mass spectrometry
February 12, 2018 —
Professor Hélène Perreault was awarded the 2017 Fred P. Lossing Award, given by the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry (CSMS).