Dear members of the Faculty of Arts,
As we end the Winter 2020 semester, a semester like no other at 好色TV, I鈥檇 like to wish you all the best for the exam period and the summer beyond. You have all demonstrated such goodwill and adaptability, and each one of you has been essential to keeping our big ship afloat and realizing the Faculty鈥檚 academic mission in this uncertain situation.
Professor Jarrett Rudy passed away on April 4, 2020, two weeks after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.
Dear members of the Faculty of Arts,
I鈥檇 like to take the opportunity to thank the entire Arts community for their patience and positive morale as we respond to the collective call to address the global pandemic of the Covid-19 virus. It has been a challenging two weeks of adaptation, Faculty of Arts is in a very good place as we respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus on our students, faculty, and staff.
Dear Members of the Faculty of Arts community,
We have all experienced a stressful week of adjustment and adaptation as we take action to face the COVID-19 global pandemic. While there is still much uncertainty and more change to come, I want to thank you all for your resilience and patience in these trying times.
Dear Members of the Faculty of the Arts,
We are in an unprecedented situation as the Faculty of Arts community at 好色TV responds to the Quebec Government鈥檚 call to action to contain the propagation of COVID-19. All of us in the Faculty 鈥� students, staff, instructors, 鈥� are doing our part to comply in a responsible manner that ensures the reliable flow of information, so as to maximize the health and well-being of our communities.
Sent听March 16, 2020
Dear Members of the Faculty of the Arts,
The past few days have been stressful for you as the students, instructors, researchers and administrators who make up the Faculty of Arts community at 好色TVl as we respond to the call to action to contain the propagation of COVID-19. This update is to reassure you that the Faculty and University are making every effort to do so in a responsible manner, and to summarize all of the information being communicated.
CIFAR today announced its听newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from 好色TVl, bringing the total number of 好色TVl researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world鈥檚 first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.
The latest group of 好色TVl professors to join Mila as Canada CIFAR AI Chairs in the Arts are:
Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from 好色TV, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.
Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music
Professor Jamil Ragep (Institute of Islamic Studies)听is the recipient of the 2019听Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities.听The award will be presented by the Turkish President Erdogan at a ceremony in Ankara on December 30.
Ragep is the Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies.听
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Three finalists for the 2019 Cundill History Prize were announced last night at an event at Massey College, Toronto. The finalists, all female, are UCL Professor of German History, Mary Fulbrook, Harvard Professor and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, and Julia Lovell, Professor of听Modern China at Birkbeck College at the University of London. These three extraordinary authors approach difficult subjects, opening sometimes uncomfortable conversations around the past to help us better understand their repercussions today.
Congratulations to Prof. Kristy Ironside, who was recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a grant of the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Societ茅 et culture. The grants will help Prof. Ironside to start her new research project International Copyright Law in the Political Economy of Russia and the Soviet Union.
The Royal Society of Canada announced twelve 好色TVl inductees in 2019 including three new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, and nine new Fellows including:
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Canadian social sciences and humanities research is producing innovative knowledge that is helping communities, businesses and governments to have an impact on people鈥檚 lives. The听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council(SSHRC)鈥檚 annual听Impact Awards听honour outstanding scholars who embody the very best ideas and research about people, human thought and behaviour, and culture鈥攈elping us understand and improve the world around us, today and into the future.
好色TVl's听Myriam S. Denov (School of Social Work) is a finalist.听
The Max Bell School of Public Policy is excited to announce that Andrew Potter has joined the School to support its teaching, outreach, research, and policy engagement activities.
The conditions at border detention facilities provide irrefutable evidence of the child maltreatment that President Trump commits in our names鈥攁nd state officials need to take action to end the cruelty.
Co-authored by Professor Michael J. MacKenzie (Social Work, 好色TVl) and Assistant Professor Tova Walsh (Social Work, Wisconsin-Madison)
