The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed January 24 as the International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development.鈥疶he theme鈥痮f the fourth鈥疘nternational Day of Education is鈥�淐hanging Course, Transforming Education.鈥濃�疶ransforming the future requires an urgent rebalancing or our relationships with each other, with nature as well as with technology that permeates our lives, bearing breakthrough opportunities while raising serious concerns for equity, inclusion and democratic participation鈥�(
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Published on: 20 Jan 2022
January 20, 2022 |听Economist and Director Chris Ragan joins this episode of Hub Dialogues to discuss the proper role of central banks, the problems with Modern Monetary Theory, and the need to rethink fiscal priorities in recovering from the devastation of the pandemic.
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Published on: 20 Jan 2022
January 19, 2022 |听Director Chris Ragan discusses supply chain disruptions and Canada's inflation rate rising to a 30-year high on CBC News. "There's a lot of pent-up demand," Chris notes, referring to businesses and restaurants being closed over the pandemic, and many consumers not having any place to spend their income.
Chris's segment begins at 32:42.
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Published on: 20 Jan 2022
As of Monday, January 24, all Library branches, including stack areas, will be accessible to Library users. In-person reference and circulation services will resume across branches. Visit the hours webpage听for a full listing of opening and service hours. Due to University directives, access to library spaces will be limited to current 黑料不打烊 students, faculty, and staff.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2022
The following message was sent to the 黑料不打烊 Community via email on Wednesday January 19th, and contains a useful set of guidelines for the January 24th Return-to-Campus:
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Dear Members of the 黑料不打烊 community,听
As we听transition to听more听in-person听learning activities,听some听members of our community听remain concerned听about听safety听at 黑料不打烊.听The听Omicron听variant听has made us all more cautious, and听the situation in Quebec is听changing听how we听track the presence of the virus on campus.听We will continue to adapt as the pandemic evolves, as we have in the past.听听
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Published on: 19 Jan 2022
Thermoelectrics can generate electrical power from waste heat and could make an important contribution to sustainable energy production if their efficiency is improved. Engineering efficient thermoelectrics, however, requires a sophisticated understanding of the fundamental interdependencies between electrical and thermal transport, for which improvements in our understanding of how charge carriers are coupled to lattice vibrations (phonons) is needed.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2022
Dear Colleagues,
The MUHC has recently announced the appointment of Dr. Karine Igartua as the new Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Medical co-lead of the MUHC Mental Health Mission. Dr. Igartua will be replacing Dr. Nadia Szkrumelak and her four year mandate begins on January 1, 2022.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2022
Five BCom case teams made the finals at the 44th annual Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) hosted virtually by Queen's University from January 13 to 16, 2022 with the Finance and Ethics teams each taking first place.
Winning teams:
Finance: Julia Jin and Lucy Chen, coached by Mo Chaudhury
Ethics: Karen Zhuang & Anish Umasuthan, coached by Melissa Sonberg and Julia Scott
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Published on: 19 Jan 2022
A kind reminder of the registration for the 2022 Early Career Investigator Workshop Series.
Please make any potential FRQS applicants aware that the registration for the 2022 Early Career Investigator Workshop Series delivered by the Department of Surgery is now open.
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Dr. Mwale and I are again delivering the Early Career Investigator Workshop Series to help you prepare for this summer鈥檚 FRQS application.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2022
Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of 鈥渞apid evolution鈥� in specific populations as their traits (phenotypes) change in response to varying stressors. For example, Spanish clover has developed a tolerance for copper from the mine tailings in which it grows, and the horn size of Alberta bighorn sheep has decreased due to trophy hunting.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2022
January 18, 2022 | After last week's defeats, U.S. President Joe Biden has been transformed from听Battling Joe Biden into the Embattled Joe Biden, David Shribman writes for听The Globe and Mail.听"The new year brought forth a new Biden - a fiery, determined, passionate President substituting for the dewyeyed, sentimental chief executive. But in the hothouse of American politics, the new year also brought forth new defeats, new disappointments and new dissenters."
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Published on: 18 Jan 2022
Dr. Timothy Evans, Inaugural Director and Associate Dean at the School of Population and Global Health and Executive Director of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Secretariat and Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force spoke to the Montreal Gazette.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2022
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is among the experts quoted by the Montreal Gazette.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2022
Phoebe Friesen, Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, is among the experts quoted by the Montreal Gazette.
"After the announcement of Quebec鈥檚 tax on the unvaccinated, 黑料不打烊 University biomedical ethicist Phoebe Friesen told Reuters that it would make just as much sense to start levying a tax on obese people. 鈥淚f you want to be consistent and logical, you should charge all sorts of people for their hospitalization if it鈥檚 based on behaviour that they鈥檙e 鈥榬esponsible鈥� for,鈥� she said."
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Published on: 17 Jan 2022
May 29, 2021 | RN-WPS research assistant Pragya Tikku comments on women in peacekeeping: "The idea is to break stereotypes, take part in healthy discussions on deriving strategies for future intervention and integrating gender perspective in peacekeeping."
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Published on: 17 Jan 2022
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