What's Happening in Arts & Science

Dr. Shawn Geniole is currently a visiting Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, working on several collaborative projects at Nipissing University and the University of Vienna. His talk is titled Identifying the pathways through which and people for whom testosterone promotes aggression.

Congratulations to Dr. Haibin Zhu, professor of computer science, on being named an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems.

Concern for the environment is widespread, but what is stopping people from rolling their sleeves up and getting down to work with some meaningful pro-environmental action? According to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, learned helplessness could be acting as a significant barrier to affecting positive environmental change.