Expand your mind with faculty microlectures — April 2
Expand your academic palate and sample new subject areas with an interdisciplinary afternoon showcasing faculty research at UFV. Faculty presenters each take the stage for a maximum of two minutes and speak about the exciting findings and implications of their research. Feed your academic appetite and learn about over a dozen new topics in under an hour at UFV’s Faculty Microlectures event.
Come to the Spirit Bear Cafe in Building A to hear the lectures. Tues, April 2, 11:30 am-12:30 pm.
This year’s topics and presenters:
An Exploratory Study on the use of Message Frames in Canadian Mortgage Loan Advertisements
David Dobson, School of Business
Upgrade your maps! Peptide mapping using IMERs
Golfam Ghafourifar, Chemistry
Tuhiwai-Smith’s 25 Indigenous Projects as Analysis Framework
Marcella LaFever, Communications
Forum Theatre in Indigenous Communities, Cindy Jardine, Health Sciences
Plantzilla: A ack of the Knotweed, Sharon Gillies, Biology
Patient Insights on Medical Apologies
Fiona MacDonald, Politcal Science
Interrogating the Place of “Place” in Migra on Discourse
Nicola Mooney, Social, Cultural, and Media Studies
Land based resiliency and Indigenous Youth,
Adrienne Chan, School of Social Work & Human Services
Spa al Jus ce and Rese lement for Children in East Africa
Cherie Enns, Geography
Liberal Arts the Ticket to Robot-Proo ng Your Career
Linda Pardy, Communications
The Economic Belief System Has Made Us Poorer
Ken Blawa, Business
Pioneering Microbes
Stephen Thomas, Biology
Neoliberalization and Alternative Food Movements: Vermont’s ‘Right to Know’ GMO Campaign
Gabriela Pechlaner, Social, Cultural, and Media Studies
The “Wretched Summer”: Understanding Post-Career Adjustment in Ex-Professional Hockey Enforcers
Michael Gaetz, Kinesiology
Framing Emancipation in Indigenous Newspapers
Robert Harding, School of Social Work and Human Service