Sharon Aschaiek

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Can We Learn from Other Cities How to Build Transit Better?

Oct 16, 2024 | magazine.utoronto.ca | Sharon Aschaiek

Program International Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project | Launched 2023 | Mission To team up students with international community partners to help research and propose solutions to urban challengesWhen a public transit project in Toronto takes years or even decades to materialize (hello, Eglinton Crosstown), it may provoke groans or shrugs – but not surprise. We’ve come to accept the seemingly endless planning process and construction delays as inevitable.
U of T’s Global Community Is One of the University’s Greatest Strengths

Oct 16, 2024 | magazine.utoronto.ca | Heidi Singer |Scott Anderson |Sharon Aschaiek

Read on to learn how U of T is bridging borders, deepening its commitment to international students and scholars, preparing all its students for an interconnected world and building long-lasting partnerships worldwide. Startups Could Help Solve Some of Africa’s Biggest Health ChallengesMathew Okwoli. Photo by Duane ColeMathew Okwoli, a software engineer, has more than a passing familiarity with the shortcomings of Nigeria’s sprawling blood supply system.
U of T Advisor Aims to Foster Civil Discussion on Tough Topics

Oct 15, 2024 | magazine.utoronto.ca | Sharon Aschaiek

Last January, the University of Toronto landed on an innovative way to help elevate the tenor of debates that sometimes occur across its three campuses: it created a new senior advisory role dedicated to fostering civil discourse. Now serving in that position – the first of its kind at a Canadian university – is English professor and writer Randy Boyagoda.
How antisemitism has roiled university campuses — University Affairs

Oct 7, 2024 | universityaffairs.ca | Sharon Aschaiek

“Unwelcome and unwanted.”This is how Claire Frankel describes the way she feels as a Jewish student at McGill University. She says she has been a target of hatred at the university’s downtown Montreal campus, where throughout the past spring and summer, a pro-Palestinian encampment by students and others protesting the conflict in the Middle East featured what she describes as some elements of distinct contempt towards Israel.
Campuses must move toward Jewish reconciliation (opinion)

Jun 26, 2024 | insidehighered.com | Sharon Aschaiek

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. mammuth/iStock/Getty Images“Jew hate … is pervasive in classrooms across campus, in student groups and online … We are ostracized, mocked, harassed, assaulted and scapegoated because of our identities … We have been attacked with sticks outside of our library.
TMU Science offers rich student development opportunities with Ontario Biology Day

Apr 16, 2024 | torontomu.ca | Sharon Aschaiek

Undergraduate students from across Ontario presented their biology research at the Ontario Biology Day poster session in the TMU Mattamy Athletic Centre.
On Finding the Balance Between Trauma, Safety, and Mindfulness

Mar 2, 2024 | tricycle.org | Sharon Aschaiek |Jo-ann Rosen

For meditator and dharma teacher Jo-ann Rosen, Buddhism has been a vital lifeline in helping her transcend the wounds of the past. An almost 30-year practitioner in the Plum Village lineage established by the late Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, Rosen says the tradition’s teachings and rituals have supported her in understanding and having compassion for her own suffering, including intergenerational trauma and parental neglect.
Infants worse at telling apart unfamiliar male voices versus female voices: Study

Feb 20, 2024 | educationnewscanada.com | Sharon Aschaiek

By Sharon Aschaiek Research by a University of Toronto Mississauga psychology student identified an intriguing difference in how babies relate to male and female voices Babies are worse at distinguishing between the voices of unfamiliar male adults compared to unfamiliar females, according to a new study by Madeleine Yu, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Research explores the gender dynamics of voice recognition in infants

Feb 13, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Sharon Aschaiek

A new study by a University of Toronto Mississauga psychology student has identified an intriguing difference in how babies relate to the voices of male and female adults. Ph.D. candidate Madeleine E. Yu has found that when exposed to the voices of unfamiliar adults, infants are less likely to be able to distinguish between unfamiliar males versus unfamiliar females. "This was not what we were expecting," says Yu, whose study was published in January in the journal JASA Express Letters.
The Change They Want

Jan 23, 2024 | magazine.utoronto.ca | Sharon Aschaiek |Mariam Matti

In the 1960s, students marched for civil rights; in the ‘80s, they protested South African apartheid. Today, many students are calling for action on the climate crisis and social injustice, using the internet platforms they grew up with to connect with like-minded peers and rally strangers to their cause. Like the three students profiled below, they are often motivated by personal experience.