SoTL Principles and Program Collaboration in the Age of Integration

The increasing acceptance of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) on our campus has led to spreading SoTL principles outside of the usual faculty classroom research projects and teaching/learning center. Three programs examined how SoTL principles aided in integration and initiative building. The programs are the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program, and the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching. Attempts at integration and collaboration have successfully brought SoTL principles into community building, consensus building, and program assessment. A unified voice, mutual respect, and responsiveness to institutional needs have been the necessary conditions to support the work, which may have directly and indirectly effected change in the campus cultur

Proposed Willowbank Winery Parameters

A document proposing the Willowbank Winery parameters, 19 February 1986. The document includes: site selection, general production facilities, platform scale, main buildings information, utilities and services, crushing operation, pressing operation, tank-processing area, tanks, catwalks, equipment and hoses, chilling of wine, hot room, cold room, laboratory, receiving and shipping, warehousing, bottling room, barrel area, tasting room and retail facility, amenities for employees, office, municipal sewers, garbage

Report from Brights Wines to the Ontario Task Force on Wine

A report from Brights Wines to the Ontario Task Force on Wine prepared by George W.B. Hostetter. The report includes: the problems with grape supply, amelioration, taxation, grape varieties, proposals, LCBO and federal practices

Improved Pruning and Training Practices for Grapes

A report by George W.B. Hostetter discussing balanced pruning which is a "refinement of present pruning methods to secure an increase in yield, and can be used with any training system". Hostetter charts out the number of buds to leave when pruning and also mentions new methods of training (four or six-arm Kniffin, Fan, Chautauqua)

Left Hemisphere Specialization for Oro-Facial Movements of Learned Vocal Signals by Captive Chimpanzees

The left hemisphere of the human brain is dominant in the production of speech and signed language. Whether similar lateralization of function for communicative signal production is present in other primates remains a topic of considerable debate. In the current study, we examined whether oro-facial movements associated with the production of learned attention-getting sounds are differentially lateralized compared to facial expressions associated with the production of species-typical emotional vocalizations in chimpanzees.Still images captured from digital video were used to quantify oro-facial asymmetries in the production of two attention-getting sounds and two species-typical vocalizations in a sample of captive chimpanzees. Comparisons of mouth asymmetries during production of these sounds revealed significant rightward biased asymmetries for the attention-getting sounds and significant leftward biased asymmetries for the species-typical sounds.These results suggest that the motor control of oro-facial movements associated with the production of learned sounds is lateralized to the left hemisphere in chimpanzees. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the antecedents for lateralization of human speech may have been present in the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans approximately 5 mya and are not unique to the human lineage

The Effect of Industrial and Urban Development on Grape Production in the Niagara Peninsula

A report discussing the effect of industrial expansion on grape production in the Niagara Region post World War II. Hostetter includes tables with projected loss of acreage due to urban expansion and the types of soils that would be lost for grape growing

Brights Wines - Leaders in Canadian Wine Making - Fine Canadian Wines since 1874

A typed notice by George W.B. Hostetter about the accomplishments of Bright Wines over the years. He created a list of seventeen "firsts" or important facts about Bright Wines

Grape Disease and Insect Problems in 1956

A report produced by George W. B. Hostetter about the grape disease and insect issues of 1956. Hostetter discusses Dead-Arm disease, downy mildew, powdery mildew, and grape berry moths

Cultural Practices for Niagara Vineyards, 1958

A manual written by George W.B. Hostetter with a letter attached. The manual is titled "Cultural Practices for Niagara Vineyards" and includes diagrams. The manual is separated into the following chapters: I - Establishing the vineyard, II - Planting a new vineyard, III - Care of the young vineyard, IV - Pruning, V - Soil Management, VI - Insect and disease control