The Sign Language Institute Canada (SLIC) is a community-based organization that aims to increase training and certification opportunities for teachers of American Sign Language (ASL) and la langue des signes Québécoise (LSQ) across Canada. SLIC has plans to implement a community-based sign language program, intended to provide deaf adults with pathways to employment, as sign […]

Language is central to our daily lives and loss of language can have detrimental effects on daily living. To understand what occurs when language skills are disrupted, I will research how healthy adults process language, and in particular the neurological underpinnings of word meaning. The anterior temporal lobe is a brain region that has been […]

The CLS control system for the particle accelerator and beamlines, which are larger than the size of a football field, generates over 600,000 digital data streams to monitor and control the facility 24/7. The task of monitoring and reacting to these data streams is largely up to the Operators and other Egineers, Physicists and Scientists […]

The CLS uses a high energy electron accelerator to produce synchrotron light for user experiments. This project is to design and construct a part for a new radiofrequency electron source that is being installed at the CLS in a new electron source lab. The part needs to be designed to produce very high gradient electric […]

L’objectif de ce projet est de mettre au point un modèle numérique permettant d’étudier la dynamique du milieu environnant un arc immergé nanoseconde. Le système est supposé à l’équilibre thermodynamique local. En s’appuyant sur des mesures courant-tension réalisées au sein de l’équipe, le modèle doit permettre de résoudre le champ électrique et magnétique. Lors d’une […]

Au Québec comme en Belgique, les travailleurs autonomes ou indépendants ne peuvent pas être syndiqués et négocier des conventions collectives de travail, car ils ne sont pas salariés au sens de la loi. Ils ne peuvent pas non plus bénéficier de toutes les politiques sociales, ce qui les place en situation de précarité. Depuis une […]

S’attachant à cartographier les usages scolaires des concepts narratologiques, cette thèse se propose d’explorer la question des pratiques et des savoirs mobilisés dans ce cadre par les enseignant·e·s de français aux niveaux secondaires I et II (élèves de 12 à 18 ans) en Belgique, en France, au Québec et en Suisse romande. Dans cette recherche […]

In this research project, the student will first be integrated into Dr. Slater’s research group and begin learning the desired knowledge and skills related to his PhD research. The project will be mainly focused on the training of performing laboratory experiments using widely used imaging techniques on polluted soils. The experiments will focus on the […]

In the last two decades there has been growing interest in understanding the structure and reactivity of chemicals containing phosphorus. Phosphorus compounds are known for their applications in organic synthesis, materials science, and catalysis. Developments in these applied areas has been enabled through fundamental studies which describe synthetic methods for preparing new phosphorus molecules. Fundamental […]

This research project focuses on individuals engaged in protest and direct action against the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX), an interprovincial oil pipeline project that starts in Alberta and ends in the Burrard Inlet of the Salish Sea, British Columbia. It explores how religious and nonreligious activists conceptualize nature-related harms of the TMX project, and to […]

Infrastructures including buildings and bridges show dynamic behaviors due to earthquakes, wind loads, and etc. The excessive dynamic response sometimes leads to structural failure. Therefore, accurate prediction method of the dynamic response for the structures is required to secure the safety the structures. A neural network augmented physics (NNAP) model which is based on deep […]

Climate change is closely tied with human behaviors and health. With continuous industrialization and technological advances, modern people are living unimaginable prosperous lives. However, their increased greed leads to enormous environmental destruction, such as the indiscriminate consumption of air conditioners and disposable products, and short-distance driving. Air pollution has a bilateral relationship with climate change, […]