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Belton

Robert

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Advertising, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Canada, Censorship, Culture, Education, Europe, Film, Fine Arts, Literacy, Media, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Teaching, Television, Theatre, Women's Issues

art criticism, art history, art theory, computer music, creativity and cognition, cultural studies, experimental music, film studies, popular music, philosophy, skepticism

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Calisal

Sander

Applied Science

French; Turkish

Architecture, Computers in Education, Engineering, Fisheries, Oceanography, Teaching, Transportation

naval architecture; ship design; ship stability; ship hydrodynamics; multimedia in engineering education, energy efficient ship design, surface wave mechanics.

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Crofton

Fiona S.

Applied Science

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Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Communications, Community Planning, Continuing Education, Culture, Education, Engineering, Environment, Ethics, Human Behavior, Internet, Natural Resources, Pollution, Sustainability, Teaching, Transportation, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water

Sustainability-based design and planning, sustainability / sustainable development education, participative planning and design, online education, virtual community architecture

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Flanders

David

Forestry

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Aboriginal Issues, Agriculture, Architecture, Community Planning, Environment, Forestry, Geography, Mining, Natural Resources, Science, South America, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water

Landscape planning, community planning, landscape architecture, urban planning, climate change, urban design, GIS, geography, forestry, energy, carbon, natural resources management, adaptation, sustainability, resilience

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Gurstein

Penny

College for Interdisciplinary Studies

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Adolescence, Aging, Architecture, Children, Community Planning, Families, Internet, Labour Issues, Sustainability, Third World, Urban Planning, Women's Issues, Work, Olympics

community planning; housing; planning and health; multimedia and planning; marginalized communities; gender and planning; telework and home-based employment; sustainable development; outsourcing and its impact on employment

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Kroller

Eva-Marie

Arts

German, French

Architecture, Bilingualism, Canada, Immigration, Literature, Multiculturalism, Quebec, Students, Teaching, Tourism

Canadian literature, comparative literature, travel writing, cultural semiotics (for example, the new Canadian embassy in Berlin)

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Kusno

Abidin

Graduate Studies

Indonesians

Architecture, Urban Planning

architecture, urban design, politics, culture, Indonesia

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Laquian

Aprodicio

Community and Regional Planning

Pilipino

Abortion, Addictions, Anthropology, Architecture, Asian Affairs, China, Community Planning, Crime, Culture, Environment, Geography, Government, Health Care, History, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese, International Studies, Management, Multiculturalism, Politics, Pollution, Racism/Race Relations, Third World, Transportation, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water

planning and governance of metropolitan areas, poverty alleviation, affordable housing, urban development in Asia with special focus on China, India,Vietnam, the Philippines, inner city redevelopment with focus on Vancouver's Down Town East Side, how to solve problems of slums in developing countries

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Llewellin

Tom

Land & Building Services

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Architecture, Management, Plants

Construction Project Management in academic setting; Landscape architecture

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Neumann

Oliver

Architecture

German

Architecture, Computers in Education, Culture, Environment, Forestry, Technology

Digital Fabrication, Concepts of Context, Wood Construction, Contemporary Architecture Discourse

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Read

Jesse

Music

German, Italian

Architecture, Culture, Fine Arts, Music

Baroque Music,Baroque Architecture,Symphonic Music,Opera,Education Music,Orchestras,Jazz,World Music, Graffiti,

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Russell

James

Arts

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Archaeology, Architecture, Classical Studies, Europe, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Language, Literature, Middle East, Olympics, Religion, Russia/Eastern Europe

old world, Iron Age, Celtic, classical Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, archaeology,architecture, ancient Roman daily life and culture;Roman military organization early Christianity; magic in antiquity; Greek and Roman inscriptions and coins; Scottish and Irish archaeology; old world and classical architecture, archaeology and culture with emphasis on Western Europe and Middle East; Celtic (especially Ireland and Scotland); Greek and Roman, classical and Byzantine; Latin, Greek, Lallans and lowland Scots; Scottish literature; Robert Burns; Scottish poetry generally; ancient through early Islam, especially Turkey; Eastern Europe

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Sheppard

Stephen

Forestry

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Architecture, Community Planning, Environment, Forestry, Olympics, Sustainability, Urban Planning

landscape architecture; greenway planning for sustainable communities; tourism potential of BC's landscapes; social aspects of forestry; visual quality / visual impacts of clear-cutting; computer mapping and animation; computer visual modeling for local climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation, using Geographic Information System and 3D visualization as a prototype for improved community engagement and planning on long-term climate change, snowpack forecasting

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Taylor

Stephen I.

Architecture

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Aboriginal Issues, Architecture, Earthquakes

northwest coast architecture of the 19th century; building response to earthquakes

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Village

Judy

College for Interdisciplinary Studies

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Anthropology, Architecture, Arthritis, Computers, Health Care, Libraries, Mining, Work

work-related musculoskeletal injuries (back strains); prevention of injuries; design of workplace tools and equipment; education of workers; ergonomics regulations and standards; office and industrial ergonomics

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Windsor-Liscombe

Rhodri

Arts

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Architecture, Canada, History

art and architectural (and cultural) history, especially 18th-20th-century North American and British

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