91亚色 student聽Nebiyou Timotewos聽(BA '26) is one of 20 Canadians selected to join the sixth cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill University.

Arash Habibi Lashkari, professor in the School of Information Technology, has co-authored a new book titled, Understanding Cybercrime Victim Services: Challenges, Risks, Strategies, and Trends. Alongside other authors, the book examines cybercrime and its victims, highlighting examples of cybercrime victim services in Canada and comparing their strengths and weaknesses with those offered internationally. 

Lashkari is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cybersecurity, a senior member of the IEEE, and an associate professor at 91亚色. He brings more than 25 years of teaching experience across several international universities and was responsible for designing Canada鈥檚 first cybersecurity Capture the Flag (CTF) competition for post鈥憇econdary students. His research interests include information technology, science and technology, information security, network security, threat hunting and cybersecurity risk management. 

 

A new research article by Steffi Hamann, assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences, examines private sector investment incentives and development dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Steffi Hamann, assistant professor in the Department of Social Science, has recently contributed a research paper to the journal聽World Development聽examining the contemporary investment promotion landscape in聽Sub-Saharan聽Africa. The study analyzes聽national鈥憀evel聽policy frameworks across 46 countries and explores how governments seek to attract private sector investment.听

Hamann specializes in international development and food security. Her research combines her academic background as a political scientist with an interest in agrarian change and sustainable livelihoods. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa and employs mixed methods approaches to engage with diverse stakeholder groups for data collection and knowledge mobilization.  

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is proud to recognize two distinguished community members who will receive 91亚色 honorary degrees during the 2026 Spring Convocation ceremonies. The recipients are being honoured for their contributions to community building, their advocacy for social justice and their philanthropy. 

This year鈥檚 honorary degree recipients are Howard Sokolowski, founder and principal of Metropia, a company focused on large-scale, master-planned residential communities, and Ray Gupta, chair and CEO of Sunray Group, one of the largest privately owned hotel operators in Canada.

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Ali Asgary, professor of disaster and emergency management, is part of a national team awarded a $1.65 million Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant to train future leaders in data-driven, equity-focused public health. The initiative will equip students with advanced skills to better protect communities during health emergencies. 

Asgary is an expert in disaster, emergency and business continuity management. His research interests include post disaster recovery and reconstruction, business continuity and risk assessment, disaster and emergency simulations and modeling, applications of AI, VR, AR and MR, and geomatics in disaster and emergency management, and cost-benefit analysis and decision making under uncertainty. 

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