Health sciences professor Joy MacDermid and arts and humanities professor Juan Luis Suárez have been awarded the 2022 Hellmuth Prizes for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for th …
Join members of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in this special edition of Western News as they offer up their BIG IDEAS on the questions you’ll be facing tomorrow – and beyond. Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves. By Stathis Psillos;...
While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
Brendan Fernandes, MFA’05, has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, among the most prestigious honours for young artists in the country. Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of...
English and Writing Studies professor David Bentley has been named one of five winners of the Killam Prize, presented by the Canadian Council of the Arts in recognition of his exceptional career achievements.
Jesus Christ Superstar is headed for a geek-filled comic-con adventure in London’s Musical Theatre Productions (MTP) latest twist on the famed rock opera. The company is staging the hit 1970s musical, loosely based on the Gospel’s accounts of the last week of Jesus’...
Join members of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in this special edition of Western News as they offer up their BIG IDEAS on the questions you’ll be facing tomorrow – and beyond. Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves. By Stathis Psillos;...
While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
Brendan Fernandes, MFA’05, has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, among the most prestigious honours for young artists in the country. Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of...
English and Writing Studies professor David Bentley has been named one of five winners of the Killam Prize, presented by the Canadian Council of the Arts in recognition of his exceptional career achievements.
Jesus Christ Superstar is headed for a geek-filled comic-con adventure in London’s Musical Theatre Productions (MTP) latest twist on the famed rock opera. The company is staging the hit 1970s musical, loosely based on the Gospel’s accounts of the last week of Jesus’...