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Eliane Ubalijoro (B.Sc.(Agr)鈥92, M.Sc.鈥95, Ph.D.鈥01) has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Director General of ICRAF -the world鈥檚 leading research and development centre on trees, forests and landscapes. Dr. Ubalijoro will be the first African woman Director General of a CGIAR Research Center and CEO of two Centers in CGIAR鈥檚 52-year history.
Beneath the spectre of a looming recession, Microsoft announced that it would lay off 12,000 people in January 2023. Just a few days later, Amazon announced it would lay off more than 18,000. These measures could help the tech giants reduce costs and weather the downturn, but they also carry risk. "A layoff can be an information signal," said Elena Obukhova in an interview with Business Insider.
We want everyone to thrive and succeed in the workplace, says Prof. Patricia Faison Hewlin, but organizations need feedback from their employees for relationships to develop and to learn from mistakes, to improve, to innovate. But asking people to speak up is its own challenge. On January 23, Faison Hewlin shared insights about how it can be accomplished as part of the University of Oregon鈥檚 African American Workshop and Lecture Series.
High costs for labour and a shortage of key skills have contributed to serious challenges for airlines. And there is still turbulence ahead for the industry, says Ed Sims, the former CEO of WestJet. To make this situation even more challenging, shareholders are growing impatient after several years of losses, Sims told Prof. Karl Moore in an interview for Les Affaires.听 According to Sims, increased cooperation through partnerships are a step that airlines could take to resolve the industry鈥檚 shortages of labour and skills.听
Two faculty members of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management were named to Rethink Retail鈥檚 Top Retail Influencers list for 2023.听 Professors Maxime Cohen and Saibal Ray were both recognized with this distinction, alongside some of the world鈥檚 top retail experts, consultants, analysts, academics, journalists, and thought leaders who are making an impact in the online retail community.
Congratulations to the 黑料不打烊 Desautels accounting team for their first-place win at the I.C.B.C. case competition. The team consisting of Thomas Wakeham and Francois Kik was coached and assisted by Julia Scott and Peg Brunelle. The is one of the oldest case competitions in the world, held annually at the Smith School of Business at Queen鈥檚 University.
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Our Mining grad Will Dixon (B.Eng. 鈥20) has received a for graduate study in China. Dixon is one of just 151 students to receive the prestigious scholarship for 2023-2024.
The Schwarzman Scholarship program offers recipients a one-year, fully funded Master鈥檚 degree program in Global Affairs at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Instructors can now help students connect to research and information resources by adding the Library Guides tool to myCourses. This dynamic tool can be inserted into myCourses in two ways, either directly in the course module and accessible via the left-side menu, or in the course鈥檚 top-level menu. Each course can be connected to pre-assigned subject guides that will populate automatically, or to one or more niche guides curated by the relevant subject librarian.
What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a major factor or changes in sea levels? Determined to find answers to these questions, researchers from 黑料不打烊 University discovered that while changing temperatures and rainfall had little impact on the crocodiles鈥 gene flow over the past three million years, changes to sea levels during the Ice Age had a different effect.
Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy (Educational and Counselling Psychology)听is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair known for her longitudinal research on youth suicide and for testing mental health promotion intervention. For Bell Let's Talk Day (January 25) we asked Dr. Georffroy to provide the 黑料不打烊 Education Community with key advice on improving mental health for those who are suffering and for people who want to be active in helping others:
黑料不打烊's Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is seeking an Academic Projects Officer. This administrator provides advising, planning, policy and project support on a range of dossiers and initiatives led by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This includes providing support in the preparation of planning documents, project reports, briefing notes, data analysis and presentations. They play an essential role in the advancement of the priorities of the unit.
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In an announcement made Wednesday, Canada鈥檚 leading research ranking organization, RE$EARCH Infosource, scored 黑料不打烊 second among an A-list of three in the Medical/Doctoral Research University of the Year (RUY) tier. 黑料不打烊 was ranked third on RE$EARCH Infosource鈥檚 list of听, a position the University has maintained for four years.
UBI Global announced that 黑料不打烊 University鈥檚 Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship ranked as a World Top 5 University Business Incubator.听