Events

Iceland began ‘upstream’ prevention initiatives in the mid 1990s and have seen massive reductions in the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco amongst youth. Professor Alfgeir Kristjansson discusses the key elements of their sustained success.

Students of the Applied Health Sciences graduating class of 2018 are invited to join alumni guests, AHS professors and Dean James W.E. Rush as they offer congratulations, celebrate your achievements and share inspiring words of advice as you get ready to cross the stage at convocation. 

Jump start your long weekend by participating in our 50th Anniversary Egg-stravaganza! 50 eggs filled with fun surprises will be hidden around the AHS Expansion Building. Keep your eye out for ten metallic eggs and one golden egg! They will contain a message with further instructions.

Anne Martin-Matthews, PhD, OC

Acting Vice-President, Research, Knowledge Translation, and Ethics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia

The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences' (AHS) 50th Anniversary Closing Ceremony marks the end of our celebratory year. Throughout 2017-2018, we have celebrated 50 years of setting a gold standard in academic and research leadership that protects and promotes health and well-being.

What happens on the field of play is life’s greatest classroom. Award-winning CBC Sports broadcaster Scott Russell discusses the potential of sport and play, and how it can shape a country and its citizens.

Professor Donna Chambers examines female sex tourism in the post-colonial world through the lens of whiteness theory.

Professor Justin Garcia of Indiana University will discuss the rise of singlehood in North America, and how widespread use of technology is changing what we thought we knew about human courtship.

Professor Laura Frey Law of University of Iowa examines how improved muscle fatigue properties may coexist with higher ratings of perceived fatigue, in conjunction with reduced strength. Implications for training, musculoskeletal injury and functional performance will be discussed.

Gerard Kyle will receive the Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award, for innovative, creative, and courageous research, and will provide a personal commentary reflecting on his observations of leisure research within the United States over the past 20 years