Projects

A MRC instructor investigating the North American rise of visual kei, a Japanese rock genre, thinks the tide may have turned to the East. Stereotypically, Japan has been thought of as a nation that imports its popular culture, especially its music. However, 70 to 75 per cent of popular music sold in modern Japan is domestically produced and it is increasingly reaching North American and Europe audiences on anime movie and TV show soundtracks.

Students from Calgary’s four post-secondary institutions—Mount Royal, University of Calgary, SAIT, and the recently added Alberta College of Art & Design—are the first western Canadian team selected to compete in the Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and next held on the Washington Mall in October 2009.

Dr. Paul Johnston has been working on the Burgess Shale, which runs through Kootenay Provincial Park and into Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, for more than 20 years. In that time, his research has led him to evidence that defies convention and suggests that the fossils at the Burgess Shale may not, in fact, be characteristic of marine life during the Cambrian.

Hospitals don’t have particle accelerators. That simple truth pushed Dr. Nathan Ackroyd’s research into an alternative imaging agent to fluorine-18, used in this case to detect estrogen receptors in breast cancer.

Yasmin Dean advises that the purpose for the presentation and demonstration is to share with participants the journey of how the online certificate course was conceived, funded and delivered online to students. The presentation will be made at the IASSW 34th Biennial Conference entitled, Transcending Local - Global Divides - Durban, South Africa