SOLAL: The Bilingual Advantage
A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind.
Read the article published on May 30, 2011 on the website of "The New York TImes"
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SOLAL: The Bilingual Advantage
A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind.
Read the article published on May 30, 2011 on the website of "The New York Times"
SOLAL: More Canadian workers heading abroad - One more reason to study Languages
Knowing how to speak more than one language is very important in today's work environment, especially for those who plan to work abroad.
Please read the following article published on June 7 on "The Globe and Mail".
SOLAL: More Canadian workers heading abroad - One more reason to study Languages
Knowing how to speak more than one language is very important in today's work environment, especially for those who plan to work abroad.
Please read the following article published on June 7 on "The Globe and Mail".
History: Andrew Ross on Cross Country Checkup re: Canuck Madness
Our Post-Doctoral Researcher Andrew Ross recently spoke on the CBC's radio program Cross Country Checkup on the topic of hockey in Canada.
To hear his thoughts on the Canucks, the nature of hockey and more, listen to the podcast. Andrew's segment starts at 1:30:00 or so.
Andrew Ross on Cross Country Checkup re: Canuck Madness
Our Post-Doctoral Researcher Andrew Ross recently spoke on the CBC's radio program Cross Country Checkup on the topic of hockey in Canada.
To hear his thoughts on the Canucks, the nature of hockey and more, listen to the podcast. Andrew's segment starts at 1:30:00 or so.
History: New in Print from Norman Smith: Recounting War in Modern China
The University of British Columbia Press has just released a book edited by our own Norman Smith and James Flath (University of Western Ontario): Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China.
New in Print from Norman Smith: Recounting War in Modern China
The University of British Columbia Press has just released a book edited by our own Norman Smith and James Flath (University of Western Ontario): Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China.
Finalists for 2011 Trillium Book Award and Trillium Book Award for Poetry from the MFA in Creative Writing Program
Congratulations to the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award:
Paul Vermeersch, graduate of the second MFA in Creative Writing cohort, for his poetry collection, The Reinvention of the Human Hand (M & S)
Michael Winter, instructor, for The Death of Donna Whalen (Penguin)
Congratulations to the finalists in the separate Trillium Book Award for Poetry:
Jeff Latosik, graduate of the first MFA in Creative Writing cohort, for Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (Insomniac Press)