An “internationalized classroom” is a space wherein many of the tensions, possibilities and change factors inherent in the internationalization process are expressed in relationships between and among host students, international students, and instructors. The proposed research is part of a Canada/China comparative study on faculty attitudes towards the internationalized classroom. During Li Mao’s research trip […]

New species may arise when related animal populations diverge in their plumage and song mating signals and no longer respond to the signals of other populations. In many tropical birds, species limits are unclear because of a lack of studies on plumage, song, morphological, and genetic variation among closely-related populations. Even fewer studies investigate whether […]

My research traces how Brazilian artists first grappled with their relationship to modernism as they sought to break out of narratives imposed by the West, and later with a contentious history and culture formed under military regimes. I am analyzing the social and historical stakes around the term “los desaparecidos” as many people went missing […]

The complexity of movement and behaviour in Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) stocks targeted by commercial and indigenous fisheries in BC is poorly understood and often discounted in fisheries management policies, possibly contributing to recent stock declines. We propose to inform spatial management strategies for herring on the central coast of BC with (I) local knowledge […]

Almost half of the world’s population cooks with highly polluting stoves and household air pollution (HAP) is one of the leading environmental risks for global health. Current efforts to reduce HAP have focused on improved cook stove and/or fuel interventions. However, most previous stove interventions failed to achieve reductions in air pollution exposures due to […]

De façon globale, cette étude s’inscrit dans les études relatives à l’urbanisme tactique et à l’urbanisme Do-it-youself. Ces mouvements, initiés par des citoyens, visent à modifier l’espace urbain à une échelle locale à l’aide de petites interventions ciblées. Alors que la croissance des initiatives s’inspirant de l’urbanisme tactique et de l’urbanisme Do-it-yourself est bien répertoriée […]

Ce projet de recherche étudie les conditions d’émergence, les objectifs et la réception populaire de l’initiative citoyenne Think Playgrounds. Ce groupe de la société civile construit des terrains de jeux pour enfants à partir de matériaux recyclés et les installe dans les espaces publics de la ville d’Hanoi au Vietnam. Par ce cas d’étude, les […]

Le système alimentaire traditionnel à la base du développement de Hanoï, la capitale du Vietnam, fait face à des pressions de la part du gouvernement local qui a pour objectif de moderniser le pays. Les avantages de ce système traditionnel, dont des marchés publics qui sont l’élément clé de ce système, sont beaucoup théorisés dans […]

Boys & Girls Clubs and Big Brothers Big Sisters (BGCBigs) are non-profit organizations in communities across Canada and the USA, with the largest Canadian chapter in Edmonton, Alberta. These organizations deliver programming to support the physical, emotional, academic and overall wellness of children and youth, including mentorship programs and the provision of safe places for […]

Cloud hosting environments include large scale distributed storage systems. With the advent of Big Data, especially newer biomedical and biometrics data, collected from wearable monitoring devices, there is a high need for Cloud-based solutions for large scale storage and high bandwidth on-the-fly data analysis for such data. A key problem for IT companies that collect […]

This research explores ghost-cities in Hanoi, Vietnam, built mostly for speculative reasons, often lingering uninhabited for a prolonged period of economic uncertainty. The dive of Vietnam in market economy in the 90’s called for a large scale restructuration of what has previously been uncontrolled rapid urbanization processes. At the beginning of the 2000s, at least […]

Dans les systemes d’autopartage dit «a un seul sens», les utilisateurs peuvent prendre une voiture dans une station et la laisser ensuite a une autre station. Ce comportement conduit generalement a une situation pour laquelle certiaines stations sont pleines et d’autres vides. Le systeme est d’autant plus contraint que les vehicules sont electriques et qu’un […]