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The money will help study the physical demands of playing the drum. “Such teachers have a big potential for impact on student behaviour, so I thought this was pretty intriguing,” says Nadia Azar, a kinesiology professor. She’s received a $20,000 USD grant to delve into the reasons instructors do or don’t offer their students training on how to prevent playing-related injury. “I’m hoping to be able to interview 30 drummers and analyze the data and present it at a few conferences,” Azar says. She says injuries develop while spending hours training intensively. “The two most common injuries that I’ve seen reported are tendinitis and carpel tunnel syndrome. You could be putting yourself at risk because you’re just doing the same thing over and over again repetitively,” Azar says.
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The two-year study is being overseen by Environmental Energy Institute director Rupp Carriveau and associate professor Hanna Moah of the Cross-Border Institute in conjunction with the Leamington-based greenhouse grower Nature Fresh Farms.
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“The study will look at what happens if we electrified the transport truck fleet in Ontario to different degrees,” Carriveau said.
“Where trucks would be charging and how that will affect the electricity grid in those locations at specific times. We’ll be able to identify peak times on the demand side.
Beverly Jacobs commends Ontario for vowing to identify and commemorate residential school burial sites. But more action is needed, says the acting dean of the University of Windsor's law faculty who's a member of the Mohawk Nation from the Six Nations of the Grand River.