Research week wraps up
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The amazing and transformative research being generated at Nipissing University was on display recently during Research Week, which wrapped up on the evening of March 11 with a series of public presentations from award winning researchers.
The evening featured six faculty members from a range of academic disciplines giving short, engaging presentations about their work in the spirit of the Three Minute Thesis Competition.
Attendees were treated to the following talks:
- Dr. Rosemary Nagy, associate professor and Chair of Gender Equality and Social Justice: Reconciliation and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women;
- Dr. David Zarifa, associate professor of Sociology: Access and Outcomes: The Points of Differentiation in Higher Education;
- Dr. David Hemsworth, professor in the School of Business: All I wanted was the ‘r’; a research career as a statistician;
- Dr. Laurie Kruk, associate professor and Chair of the English Department: Celebrating the ‘Double Voice’ in Canadian Short Fiction;
- Dr. Tzvetalin Vassilev, associate professor of Mathematics: The 5 Minute Math Talk; and
- Dr. Mark Bruner, associate professor in the Bachelor of Physical Health and Education program: Groupon: Harnessing the Group to Build Youth Development Through Team Sports.
Other events during Research Week included: the Three Minute Thesis competition, Nipissing’s Undergraduate Research Conference, and Celebration of Scholarship, celebrating the many achievements of faculty beyond the classroom.