Teamwork was a major motivator for many of the offices that joined the Sustainable Workplace Certification program this semester.\
It鈥檚 surprisingly easy. That was the most common takeaway for the 11 teams that joined the聽Sustainable Workplace Certification program聽this academic year.
The Institute for the Study of International Development is looking for graduate teaching assistants for the Fall 2023 term and for various courses in the international development studies program.聽 Applicants must be graduate students in good standing at 黑料不打烊 University.聽 Full details can be found here /isid/jobs/teaching-assistants, and applications made through Workday, the university's human resources management system.
Craft business, such as microbreweries and ethical chocolate companies, has seen a rise in the past several years, with many claiming to put values over excessive profit. Meanwhile, larger, more economically driven businesses have imploded in the wake of questionable decision making. Are craft businesses somehow more ethical or moral than others? Or is business ethics an oxymoron? The answer depends on values.
Catherine Bradley - Head of Wardrobe, costume designer, researcher, and teacher in the Department of English - was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!
May 26, 2023 | Following the controversial law in China that compelled companies to hand over platforms' user data if Beijing deems relevant to Chinese security, serious concerns were raised in Canada. Following this update most of the provinces and public institutions prohibited TikTok on government-owned devices. Former ByteDance executive has claimed that TikTok provides the Chinese government 'supreme access' to user data, indicating that the Chinese government is able to obtain information collected on Canadians' phones.聽
Jessica Mettler, recent PhD graduate in the Human Development program supervised by Dr. Nancy Heath, has been awarded the highly competitive Governor General鈥檚 Gold Medal, which is awarded to the most outstanding PhD graduate in Social Sciences & Humanities at 黑料不打烊, and the 黑料不打烊 Alumni Association Graduate Award, which is awarded to an outstanding PhD graduate at 黑料不打烊.
Dear members of the Macdonald Campus community,
I am writing to update you on the progress of the investigation into the asbestos-related building closures at Macdonald Campus.
Indigenous 黑料不打烊 students including the Faculty鈥檚 In-Community students with the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) participated in the annual virtual Scarf Ceremony. Indigenous knowledge-keepers and University leadership offered heartfelt greetings and words of wisdom to our graduands who will don red or white scarves as part of their Convocation regalia.
The Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks within the Aquatic Toxicology Unit is seeking an Indigenous Intern for a 1-year term, working with聽a variety of fish and invertebrate species in a laboratory setting to culture organisms, and assist with acute toxicity testing.
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Ignacio Cofone and Professor Omar Farahat will be promoted to the rank of associate professor, with tenure, effective 1 June 2023.聽聽
黑料不打烊鈥檚 valedictorians are outstanding students whose strong academic performance, leadership and community involvement has earned the respect of their peers. This year鈥檚 cohort is remarkable for its diversity, each having vastly different backgrounds, experiences, passions and goals.
What they do share is ambition, curiosity, and a desire to have a positive impact on the world.
This message should be directed to All Undergraduate Convocation Award Processors
Dear Award Processors:
As part of your preparation for processing Spring Convocation awards beginning the month of May, please be advised of the processing deadline being imposed. It is very important that you make every effort to meet the deadline date as prescribed.
ALL awards must be entered in Banner Student Aid (BSA) by Thursday May 23rd at 5 p.m.
Professor Victoria Talwar, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was featured recently in Globe and Mail's article on limiting screen time for children.聽 The quality of that screen time is worth considering, and a child connecting with friends or family using the technology isn't a bad thing.聽 However, it is important to keep an eye on children's screen time, as it continues to rise, from year to year.
The most abundant animals on farms鈥攁nd everywhere on land, in fact鈥攁re microscopic worms called nematodes. Some kinds benefit the soil, but others parasitize crops, inflicting more than $100 billion in losses worldwide each year. Although pesticides can get rid of harmful nematodes, they inflict collateral damage on other life.
Around the world, food is grown on land of all sizes and all types, but that diversity means farmers often fail to take into account landscape complexity and soil variability, according to Chandra A. Madramootoo, a professor of Bioresource Engineering at 黑料不打烊 University, in Montreal, Canada.
He says that one solution is precision farming, an approach that 鈥渆nables the selection of crops, and chemical and water applications within spatially similar land and soil zones.鈥�
