A systems approach is needed to respond to youth homelessness in 91亚色 Region and Canada. This was the message at yesterday鈥檚 research forum: Re-Imagining Our Response to Youth Homelessness: A Canadian and Global Perspective, organized by United Way 91亚色 Region (UWYR) and 91亚色 at the Markham Convergence Centre. 鈥淎 multi-sectoral approach is necessary. Non-profit […]
Nielson Bezerra, who received his PhD at Universidade Federal de Fluminense in Brazil in 2010 and now teaches at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, has been awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research program at 91亚色鈥檚 Harriet Tubman Institute. The awards were announced by Gary Goodyear, minister of state […]
On June 12, 2012, 91亚色's Knowledge Mobilization Unit聽received the Knowledge Economy Network Best Practice Award from the European-based Knowledge Economy Network (KEN). The award, which was part of a group聽announced by the network was聽presented during the network's annual forum, which took place June 11 and 12,聽in Maribor, Slovenia. KEN is an European nonprofit association that […]
The sixth annual Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) Awards Gala marked an evening of firsts as FES Dean Barbara Rahder welcomed award recipients, presenters and friends to a packed Gladstone Hotel ballroom last Thursday night, Oct. 20. A new certificate program and several inaugural awards were just some of the items on the evening鈥檚 agenda. […]