Professor Andil Gosine’s work in the Caribbean began at the start of his career. As an academic, Gosine wanted to investigate the issues of sexuality rights, especially as they impacted LGBTQ2S+ communities within the Caribbean. Gosine’s efforts to advance sexuality rights had a groundbreaking impact, with him leading the charge in organizing the first major
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Author by Alex Huls | Originally posted on YFile. Gerald Carrothers, a visionary academic and founding dean of what is now the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, passed away on April 20, just short of his 100th birthday. An architect by training, Carrothers held a PhD in economics and regional planning from the Massachusetts
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MES student and artist, Sabrina Rose Capista showcased her research-creation project, Let Us Rot in EUC’s 31st Eco Arts Festival from March 17-28, 2025 as part of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Over the course of her time in the MES program, Sabrina has been studying mycology, death and rebirth in spiritual traditions, and
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by Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva and Steven Lum In late 2024, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 212 giving the provincial government significant control over municipal bike lanes. The law requires municipalities to ask the province for its approval to install bike lanes if they would remove a lane for other vehicular traffic. The legislation also allows for
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by Peri Dworatzek, MES, PhD student and Partnership Coordinator for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab Fall 2024 marked the release of the first Ontario municipal Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity dataset. This data presents a one-year snapshot of local levels of consumption [ecological footprint] and natural resource regeneration [biocapacity]. All the data is publicly available
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by Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, William Quinton The Scotty Creek Research Station (SCRS) is a world-class climate research hub located 50 km south of Fort Simpson, in the Dehcho region of the southwest Northwest Territories, Canada. The station has hosted researchers and students since its establishment in 1999, and helped reveal how permafrost thaw is
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In 2022, the Partnership for Research with African Newcomers (PRAN) was launched with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Consisting of a network of researchers led by Professor Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika from University of Alberta’s Faculty of Arts – Women and Gender Studies, the research team include faculty members from University
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by Adeyemi Olusola, Samuel Ogunjo, and Christiana F. Olusegun SynthesisWe investigated the impacts of six major climate oscillations on river flow at three stations within the Humber catchments (located in Ontario, ON and Newfoundland and Labrador, NL) from 1970 to 2020 using sensitivity and wavelet analyses. Results indicate that the discharge at East Humber River
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Professor Visiting Professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (July 1st 2024 to June 30th 2025) Associate Professor & Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Al Azhar University Gaza Credentials Post Doctorate in Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison , USA Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Magna cum laude, University of Hohenheim Stuttgart,
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