Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education news

The Department of Integrated Studies in Education is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the newly established DISE Awards for Graduate Students, supported by our Graduate Excellence Fund. These awards were established in 2013 to recognize and celebrate the work of our students in several areas particularly close to our departmental raison d’être, but which are not  covered in other award categories. Congratulations to the winners and all applicants! 

The Department of Integrated Studies in Education would like to congratulate the following graduate students on receiving McGill Graduate Fellowships and Faculty of Education Awards this spring: Faiza Abdul Wahid, PhD Student, Educational Studies 2013-2014 Wolfe Fellowships in Scientific and Technological Literacy recipient Hyunmin Lee, MA Student, Second Language Education2013-2014 Stansfield Award for School-based Classroom Research recipient

Dr. Anila Asghar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, was awarded the 2013 Faculty of Education’s Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz Award for Excellence in Teaching! This award is a reflection of Dr. Asghar's care for her students as well as her dedication to research in science education. Congratulations Dr. Asghar!

Dr. Baker and Dr. Choudry were recently awarded SSHRC Connection Grants to fund knowledge mobilization activities, aiming to facilitate the multidirectional flow of knowledge between universities and the community.

This medal is awarded to citizens or permanent residents of Canada who have made significant contributions to Canada or for an outstanding achievement abroad that has brought great credit to Canada. In order of medal presentation our four Faculty of Education recipients are: 1.     Prof. Ratna Ghosh, DISE, medal presentation June 2012 2.     LCol Michael Canavan, DISE, medal presentation August 2012

McGill Faculty of Education Professor Shaheen Shariff has been named as one of four worldwide recipients of Facebook’s first Digital Citizenship research grants – a $50,000 (U.S.) award that will support her Define the Line project, designed to help reduce cyber-bullying and promote responsible digital citizenship.

A webcast is now available for the Bloomberg Manulife Prize Roundtable held January 12, 2012 with guest speaker and prize winner, Dr. Steven Blair, University of South Carolina.

As of December 28th, McGill’s license of Virus Barrier X will expire. Replacing it is Trend Micro’s Smart Surfing for Mac. Its features include antivirus, antispyware and web threat protection; additionally, it has built in parental controls, a spam blocker and a two-way firewall.

We are now accepting proposals for DISE Talks! - a new forum for members of the DISE community, both students and faculty, to come together and share their work on research and/or pedagogy.

Courses for the two 15-credit Programs are offered online in real time so that students worldwide are connected directly with the instructor and in discussion with classmates for three hours per week over a 13-week semester. The completion of each certificate takes five semesters.

DISE offices will be closed on Friday, June 25th and then again on Friday, July 2nd. These Friday closings follow the Fête nationale and Canada Day holidays respectively.