Rosaria Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
9:30 p.m. to 3:oo p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Doors open & refreshments at 9:30 a.m.
How does language shape our gender? What inspires radical activists? Why do bugs cuddle? Join us on Research Day to explore the answers to some very exciting questions. Learn what your professors do when they’re not in the classroom and check out the many research centres, institutes and projects taking place on campus. This is an excellent opportunity to find out more about a career in your prospective field as a researcher.
Resources for Researchers
Learn how to engage non-academic partners to fund your research or test-drive the Digital Commons!
Writing a Grant? Check out a new resource for drafting grant applications.
12 noon
Speaker’s Corner
Dr. Nick Bellissimo: Childhood Obesity Conundrum: Is there a food/exercise solution?
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Debbie Norris: Collaborative Learning Through a Community-University Research Alliance
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Jonathan Roberts: From fetish to Viagra: the commodification and fetishization of love and sex
medicines in West Africa
12:45 p.m.
Donna Bourne-Tyson, Stan Orlov and Roger Gillis: What IS the Mount Digital Commons?
1:15 p.m.
Noreen Millar: Mapping the Social Economy of Atlantic Canada