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Newnham Campus expansion continues<br />
Construction is<br />
continuing this fall on our<br />
new 160,000-square-foot<br />
building at Newnham<br />
Campus.<br />
The new building will include<br />
classrooms and faculty spaces as well<br />
as a new auditorium, which will have a<br />
flexible design that can serve as a single<br />
classroom, be divided into multiple<br />
teaching spaces or host <strong>Seneca</strong><br />
functions. As part of construction, the<br />
Computer Commons is being expanded<br />
and a collaborative student study space<br />
is in the works.<br />
<strong>Seneca</strong> received $20 million from the<br />
provincial government and $3.7<br />
million from the federal government to<br />
create the new building. The funding is<br />
in response to an expected surge in postsecondary<br />
participation and is expected<br />
to create space for an additional 1,000<br />
students at the campus. The new<br />
building is expected to open in<br />
September 2011.<br />
<strong>Seneca</strong> receives $2.3 million from federal<br />
government to expand open source research<br />
<strong>Seneca</strong> will receive $2.3 million in federal funding over five years for open source<br />
technology research as part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council<br />
of Canada’s <strong>College</strong> and Community Innovation Program.<br />
The Honourable gary goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) made the<br />
announcement as part of $15 million in funding for 12 new projects where<br />
colleges work with their communities and local businesses to get new innovations from<br />
the campus into the marketplace. with this grant, <strong>Seneca</strong> intends to scale and grow<br />
the research capacity of its Centre for Development of Open Technology to meet the<br />
ever-increasing needs of current and prospective partners. <strong>Seneca</strong> has become a world<br />
leader in academic involvement in the teaching and researching of open source<br />
software development. working with such partners as Mozilla, IBM and Red Hat,<br />
<strong>Seneca</strong> has pioneered a new method of student involvement in real world open source<br />
software products.<br />
Professor receives dissertation recognition award<br />
Dr. Ping Deters has been honoured with the Dissertation Recognition of Excellence<br />
Award for her dissertation “Identity, Agency, and the Acquisition of Professional<br />
language and Culture: The Case of Internationally Educated Teachers and <strong>College</strong><br />
Professors in Ontario.”<br />
Ping, a Professor in <strong>Seneca</strong>’s English language Institute for more than 10 years,<br />
completed her research on the professional acculturation of internationally educated<br />
K-12 teachers and college professors in Ontario as part of her doctoral studies at The<br />
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Each year, the Canadian<br />
Association for Teacher Education presents Dissertation Recognition of Excellence<br />
Awards to acknowledge excellence in teacher education research and scholarship in preservice<br />
education, in-service education and teacher development. Dissertations focus on<br />
a wide range of topics in the areas of teacher education.<br />
Student video selected to promote luminato Festival<br />
Romulo Cardier, Andrew Mamangun, Vidya Shanmugam and Namrata Chandel are the<br />
winners of the 2010 luminato Festival viral video contest.<br />
Earlier this year, five teams made up of students from <strong>Seneca</strong>’s Marketing<br />
Management program developed a series of videos to promote the luminato Festival<br />
— a multi-disciplinary arts festival. The videos were based on the concept of being a<br />
“luminatic,” or passionate patron of the annual festival.<br />
The winning video, as selected by fans on YouTube, is featured on luminato.com as<br />
the official 2010 luminato Festival viral video.<br />
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“This is an exciting project for all of us at<br />
seneca. it will improve access, provide<br />
state-of-the-art teaching and learning<br />
areas and a new main entrance, a front<br />
door if you will, to our newnham<br />
Campus.” — david Agnew, President<br />
PHOTO BY CAROl CROMBIE<br />
<strong>Seneca</strong> Students create float for Caribana parade<br />
Adrian Mejia puts the finishing touches on a float he and his fellow <strong>Seneca</strong> Visual<br />
Merchandising Art students created for the Toronto Police Services. The float titled<br />
“Diversity in Motion” appeared during the Scotiabank Caribana Parade held in July at<br />
Exhibition Place and lakeshore Boulevard.<br />
1750 Finch Ave East, Toronto, ON M2J 2X5<br />
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