November WIDEN on: Disaster! Event Details: When: November 23rd, 2011, 4:30pm Where: Ram in the Rye, VIP room — 63 Gould street, can be accessed from Church Street as well. Presentations: OMG, I’m “mad” David Reville (School of Disability Studies) Is a diagnosis of mental illness a complete disaster? This presentation will look at people […]
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Friday, October 28, 2011 Presentations: “Using technology to adapt to changes in cultural experiences due to disability” David Fourney (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) One’s lifespan is defined by change. With age comes disability. Hearing loss is the third most chronic disability among older adults and the fastest growing hidden disability in North America. It affects […]
Tags: change, culture, disability, engineering, fashion, sustainabilityIn commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre: The Marriage Market and Women Colin Decker, Mathematics Many cultures throughout history have kept detailed marriage records. Marriage data is sometimes used by economists to gain a foothold in the study of other social phenomena for which direct data is not available. I will briefly […]
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