"Focus on Five" archive

April 2013

Thad Harroun, physicist, Department of Physics: You might think twice the next time your reach for the bottle of Vitamin E supplements to protect against heart disease or ward off cancer. Physicist Thad Harroun is trying to unravel the mystery of whether the well-known, but little understood vitamin is really the great anti-oxident your pill bottle claims it to be. Read more.

Debbie Inglis, biochemist, director, Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI): When times get tough, the tough make lemonade out of lemons or, in the case of biochemist Debbie Inglis, appassimento wine out of grapes. Read more.

John Hay, pediatric exercise medicine specialist, Department of Community Health Sciences: When research teams want to measure children’s daily activity levels without using intrusive wires and machines, they turn to pediatric exercise medicine specialist John Hay. Read more.

Jennifer Good, communication expert, Faculty of Social Sciences: What happens when you’re fed a constant diet of luxurious cars, sparkling jewelry, the gizmo-of-the-moment and other seductive eye candy flashing across the screen as you vegetate on your couch? It ain’t pretty, says communication expert Jennifer Good in her hot-off-the-presses book Television and the Earth: Not a Love Story. Read more.

Voula Marinos, criminologist, Department of Child and Youth Studies: “Justice is negotiated, but justice is also very fluid and discretionary.” Criminologist Voula Marinos takes a special interest in what happens behind the scenes of the criminal justice system. Read more.

March 2013

Joyce Mgombelo, mathematics educator, Department of Teacher Education: Read more.

Martin Tammemagi, epidemiologist, Department of Community Health Sciences: Read More.

Bareket Falk, exercise physiologist, Department of Kinesiology: Read more.

Mariek Schmidt, volcanologist and igneous petrologist, Department of Earth Sciences: Read more.

David Fancy, scholar-artist, Department of Dramatic Arts: Read more.

February 2013

Kevin Kee, Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, digital historian, Centre for Digital Humanities: Read more.

Janet Conway, Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, political scientist, Department of Sociology: Read more.

Paul Zelisko, organic chemist, Department of Chemistry: Read more.

Stephen Cheung, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Ergonomics, ergonomist, Department of Kinesiology: Read more.

Joe Norris, education dramatist, Department of Dramatic Arts: Read more.

JANUARY 2013

Diane Dupont, environmental economist, Department of Economics: Read more.

Lisa Barrow, business consultant, Goodman School of Business: Read more.

Ana Sanchez, medical microbiologist, Department of Community Health Sciences: Read more.

Thomas Farrell, linguist and chair, Department of Applied Linguistics: Read more.

Jim Willwerth, staff viticulturist, Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute: Read more.