Prof receives grant to study eating in cars
Prof. Jackie Botterill in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film has received a Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS) grant to study eating in cars.
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Faculty & staff
Research chair hits virtual airwaves with podcast
Vincenzo De Luca’s work has appeared many times in many journals. But it was the podcast interview - his very first - on Science magazine’s website that he says has the potential to generate a lot of buzz.
Archivist wins award for work on 1812 website
David Sharron, head of Special Collections and Archives in the James A. Gibson Library, was recently named the recipient of the Archives Association of Ontario’s James J. Talman Award.
July 23, 2012 | Posted in Faculty & staff | Read More »
Social sciences profs win grant for photo exhibit in Pakistan
Sociology professor Nancy Cook and David Butz from the Department of Geography recently received a Council for Research in Social Sciences (CRISS) grant to do a photography exhibit in Shimshal, a small mountain village in northern Pakistan. The duo are conducting research about road accessibility and social change there.
Photos in the exhibit were produced as [...]
Political science professor recieves teaching accolades
Hevina Dashwood has been given a prestigious honour for teaching excellence.
The political science professor won the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) Award for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes educators who excel at unlocking the potential of Ontario’s young people.
Luke Speers, Brock University Students’ Union vice-president nominated Dashwood for the award after taking her third-year class on [...]
Political Science
David Siegel spoke to a study tour of senior civil servants from India and Sri Lanka in Toronto on May 23 on the topic of “The Structure of Local Government in Canada.”
June 26, 2012 | Posted in Humanities | Read More »
Math professor travels to UAE to speak
Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh in Department of Mathematics presented the first keynote address at the 10th United Arab Emirates Mathematics Day held at the American University of Sharjah on April 14. His talk, entitled The Poincaré Intermediate Value Theorem on Non Smooth Domains, surveyed the old and new about the most generic solvability theorems for nonlinear systems [...]
June 26, 2012 | Posted in Mathematics and Science | Read More »
Philosophy
Christine Daigle presented the paper “Infusing the Humanities with Meaning: Beauvoir’s Philosophy and Literature of the Appeal” at the 20th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, “Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy, Literature and the Humanities,” on June 23 in Oslo, Norway.
Christine Daigle presented the paper “On Feeling/Being Out of Place” at the BTTTT! 2012 [...]
June 26, 2012 | Posted in Humanities | Read More »
Applied Linguistics
Hedy McGarrell (Applied Linguistics) and Debbie Lee (ESL Services) presented the paper “Corpus-based or corpus-informed grammar texts for English Language Learners compared to traditional grammars: An example
of how research informs pedagogy” at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA/CAAL) Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, May 28-31.
Hedy McGarrell presented the paper “Innovation in Techniques for Teacher [...]
June 26, 2012 | Posted in Humanities | Read More »
School leadership
Louis Volante presented “School leadership in the context of standards-based reform” at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education - Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration in Waterloo in May.
June 26, 2012 | Posted in Education | Read More »
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Brock gears up for Congress 2014
Participants wanted for Brock’s Rankin Run team
Former Brock prof had passion for correcting history
Brock hosts two-day science adventure for Grade 11 girls
Who is that masked woman? Meet Anonymous Artist Friend
Concordia sculpture on the move Monday
3M Teaching Fellows to give Last Lecture
