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Research Interests Cultural Psychology & Psychotherapy, Immigrant Mental Health & Culture Specific Syndromes, Philosophical Psychology, Spirituality & Psychotherapy

Research Interests Investigating barriers to full participation of diverse groups of people with disability; diversifying the health and human service professions; the transition into and out of university for students with disabilities

Research Interests Power and energy systems, smart energy grids, power electronic systems and converter circuits, electrical machines and drives, controls, electromagnetic transients, computer modeling and simulation, distributed and parallel simulation

Research Interests Leaves, flowers, fruits and primary plant stems are covered with a waxy “skin” called the cuticle. The surface of the cuticle forms the interface between plants and their environment, and is therefore essential for plant survival and performance. The research in my lab aims at providing basic knowledge that will enable us to: better protect crop plants against adverse conditions, especially against stressful environments created by climate change by working towards more drought-tolerant crop lines; engineer novel chemical structures that are analogous to those on plant leaves, to improve the surface properties of artificial materials; for example, plant-like wax coatings can protect building materials against adverse climatic conditions, and they can make medical materials more compatible with human tissues; bio-engineer algae and higher plants as renewable sources of new chemical commodities; for example, our research on the biosynthesis of wax alkanes is fundamental for future processing of second-generation biofuels derived from lipid metabolism.

Research Interests Environmental archaeology, archaeology of collapse and sustainability

Research Interests Passive solar design; energy conservation; sustainability; high-performance buildings

Research Interests Indigenous Legal Traditions, Canadian Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, and Law & Colonialism.

Research Interests Ethnobotany, mycology, natural product chemistry and Aboriginal health