Faculty

Deadline: Call for Nominations - 2025 Department of Medicine Awards

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:01:20 +0000

Each year, the ��ϲ�� DOM honours faculty members who have made significant and meaningful contributions to education, teaching, research, quality and innovation, humanism, mentorship, outreach, and leadership.

Professors Richard King and Stephen McAdams Honoured with ��ϲ��’s Top Awards

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:50:42 +0000

Professors Richard King and Stephen McAdams of the Schulich School of Music have been awarded two of ��ϲ�� University’s most prestigious internal research distinctions: the James ��ϲ�� Professor (JMP) and Distinguished James ��ϲ�� Professor (DJMP) awards, respectively.

Dr. Shannon Mattern on Case Logics: Furnishing a Bureaucratic Implosion

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:58:23 +0000

Please register on Eventbrite.

Dr. Oliver Haimson on Trans Technologies: Fireside Chat (Online Event)

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:51:24 +0000

Please register on Eventbrite.

��ϲ��’s Visual Schedule Builder has a new look!

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:14:57 +0000

Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) is a tool that allows students to visually organize their courses into their weekly schedule before registering in Minerva.

The most important change? Classroom locations and class instructors’ information are now available when signed in. The new look will make course information and interface elements more noticeable.

To see what’s changed, visit the VSB Knowledge base article.

Fostering Industry-University Partnerships Workshop

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:41:41 +0000

��ϲ�� Engine is pleased to announce that the workshop entitled Fostering Industry-University Partnerships will be offered this Sprinh!

Update: Procedures for Travel and Other Expenses / Modification : Procédures relatives aux frais de déplacement et autres dépenses

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:02:58 +0000

(La version française suit)

Dear ��ϲ�� Finance Community Member,

The Procedures for Travel and Other Expenses have been updated:

P4 has been modified to indicate that when an amount is to be returned to the University, the method of payment is via Interac e-Transfer. Payments via personal cheques will no longer be accepted.

How artificial food dyes are regulated in Canada

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:56:19 +0000

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to phase out some food dyes, most of which remain allowed in Canada. CBC News spoke to experts about the safety of these dyes and how they are regulated in Canada.

Rising demand at food banks indicative of Canada's affordability crisis

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:35:47 +0000

Food banks across Canada set a new record for demand in 2024, with more than two million monthly visits—nearly double the rate seen five years prior, reports CBC News.

One reason for the spike in demand is the rising cost of food.

"What we're encountering right now is a problem where food inflation is bigger than general inflation," economist and agronomist Pascal Thériault, Senior Faculty Lecturer at ��ϲ�� University, told CBC.

Fiscal Year 26 - Month End Deadlines for Submitting Financial Transactions / Exercice 2026 – Échéances de fin de mois pour l’inscription des transactions financières

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:16:38 +0000

La version française suit.

To all Finance Users,

May 1, 2025 is the first day of Fiscal Year 26 (May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026). For your reference, attached are the FY26 Month End Deadlines for submitting financial transactions in Banner (including Finance Accounts Receivable and Feed File submissions).

These deadlines are posted on the Financial Services website.

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Pearl Eliadis on Quebec’s Bill 94 and the Deepening Discrimination Under the Guise of Secularism | Law360 Canada

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:14:23 +0000

April 11th, 2025 | In an interview, Pearl Eliadis critiques Quebec’s newly proposed Bill 94, which expands the province’s secularism rules by extending the ban on religious symbols to all school support staff and volunteers, mandating uncovered faces in educational institutions, and prohibiting religious accommodations across the education system.

Congratulations Prof. Mahshid! 2025 PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Award

webfull — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:45:42 +0000

The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate Professor Sara Mahshid on being selected as the recipient of the 2025

ACB Seminar Series: Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan, PhD. "Stress Cleaning: How calnexin tosses out misfolded proteins from a cluttered endoplasmic reticulum and the p24-family sends them to the dump."

webfull — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:14:54 +0000

Bioengineering Department Retreat at ��ϲ��'s Gault Nature Reserve

webfull — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:18:58 +0000

The Department of Bioengineering enjoyed a fun and enriching retreat at the Gault Nature Reserve on Monday, April 28. Faculty and staff came together to connect and share ideas in the reserve’s beautiful natural setting. A big thank you to everyone who took part and helped make the day memorable. The department now looks ahead to another exciting year! (April 2025)

Symposium on the implementation of precision medicine in healthcare

webfull — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:01:46 +0000

A perspective from Estonia and Canada