During the last couple decades, agricultural practices have increased in intensity to meet the growing needs of economic growth and population growth in Vietnam. Increased livestock production, management of human and animal waste, hormone and antibiotic residues from humans and livestock present human and environmental health concerns. The risks of agricultural intensification to human health […]

One of the biggest mysteries in modern physics is “dark energy”. This strange form of energy makes up over half of our Universe and is causing space to expand faster and faster. Even 30 years after its Nobel Prize-winning discovery, we still have no clear idea what dark energy actually is. Scientists have come up […]

Plants are not passive bystanders, they sense their surroundings and react to threats through chemical and vibrational cues. A key example of this is when a plant detects volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by neighboring plants that have been damaged by herbivores. Green leaf volatiles (GLVs), a subset of VOCs released in the atmosphere, are […]

Biodiversity conflicts considering human-wildlife interactions have usually been addressed in regard to the impacts of animals on human beings or properties and, conversely, of humans on animals, with the ultimate goal of reducing those impacts. However, this has rarely lead to long term conflict resolution, which suggests that conflict management should reside further than in […]

My research project presents a unique perspective on the Turkish experience of modernity from the side of the discredited, disavowed and repressed, and thus contributes to a better understanding (and to a better identification of the failures) of the modernization in Turkey that predominated much of the twentieth century. It does this through an exploration […]

The project is part of a thesis that investigates logic of classification embedded in advanced data analytics and automated decision-making tools (and, now “AI”), implemented to determine Canada’s temporary resident visa applicants, which involves sorting applicants for risk, inadmissibility, ineligibility, and illegality.

This project, based at the Tyndall Institute at University College Cork in Ireland, is creating one of the first open-access, lab-quality biomechanics datasets focused on dance. It will record movement from different dance styles using motion capture, wearable sensors, and muscle activity measurements to better understand the physical demands of dance techniques and the risks […]

Neural Networks (NN) use a set of individual units (neurons) connected together to learn a specific behavior from a dataset. For example, NN excel in classification tasks where given a dataset labelled with presence or absence of a feature in each entry, they are able to detect the feature presence on new inputs. This technology […]

Through this project, interns will support organizations and initiatives advancing climate finance and social entrepreneurship in the Victoria and British Columbia ecosystem.

Au tournant du 20e siècle, les artistes canadiennes Mary Bell Eastlake, Florence Carlyle, Henrietta Mabel May, Helen McNicoll et Laura Muntz Lyall ont traversé l’Atlantique pour se former dans les académies parisiennes. Pourtant, leurs parcours remarquables demeurent éclipsés par leurs homologues masculins dans l’histoire de l’impressionnisme canadien. Ce projet dévoile comment ces artistes femmes ont […]

Digital technologies and practices—including social networking—are now pervasive and have been adopted society-wide. This creates new possibilities for engagement and interaction among academic professionals, research partners, collaborators, stakeholders, students, and additional members of the public. This project focuses on continuing to advance the research, analysis, and engagement of the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) […]

In Canada’s remote and weather-challenged regions, inspecting critical infrastructure like bridges or monitoring agricultural sites such as vertical farms often involves costly, dangerous, and infrequent field visits. This project explores whether there is a commercial market for a new platform that enables engineers to perform these inspections remotely, using virtual reality (VR), autonomous drones, and […]