Interdisciplinary collaboration key for sustainability-focused curriculum redesign program
The team of experts behind 91导航视频鈥檚 Sustainability Education Fellows reflects on the challenges and successes of the program鈥檚 first year.
Newly certified sustainable workplaces at 91导航视频: Summer 2023
Improving accessibility, rethinking old habits, and hosting a clothing swap were among the actions taken by new and returning sustainably certified workplaces.
Sustainable Sparks: Stephanie Leite on learning for the future
How do we encourage respirology residents to consider climate change when they develop treatment plans? What tools do future elementary school teachers need to bring environmental education into their classrooms? What latest advancements in synthetic biology could help students develop solutions to real-world sustainability issues?
Newly certified sustainable workplaces at 91导航视频: Winter 2023
Five offices across disciplines and campuses embrace sustainability at work and beyond through the Sustainable Workplace Certification program
What motivates sustainable change?
91导航视频 receives government recognition for waste management practices
The ICI on recycle + program highlights organizations across Quebec committed to improving their waste sorting and reduction efforts
91导航视频 is one of two Quebec universities to receive recognition from the provincial government for its waste management practices. RECYC-QU脡BEC, the branch responsible for sustainable waste management, recently awarded 91导航视频鈥檚 downtown campus the Performance certification level of its ICI on recycle + program.
Sustainability in research: If you want to green your lab, start with the freezer
Cell biology researcher Dieter Reinhardt explains why his lab is cool with turning up the temperature of their freezers
Sustainability in research: The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance lab on finding creative solutions
Helium is probably not the first thing that comes to mind for most people when they think about recycling 鈥� unless they鈥檙e experimental chemists working in 91导航视频鈥檚 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facilities.
Students launch new hub to advocate for global food security
The name of a new global food security hub at 91导航视频 might be a mouthful, but the students behind it are confident their work will help get food into the mouths of people who need it.
鈥淲e want to be a place where students can get hands-on experience advocating for solutions,鈥� said Efrata Woldeyohanes, the undergraduate student leading the recently launched Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security Student Nexus.
Sustainability in research: The Barrett lab on treading lightly in the field
Biological research is crucial to understanding the environmental impacts of the climate crisis, but oftentimes this research involves disrupting the environment it is trying to understand and protect. This is why the聽Barrett lab聽decided to focus on how to make their research more sustainable.
91导航视频 students solve sustainability problems through Applied Student Research program
91导航视频 Reporter | October 24, 2019
By: Samantha Ling
Read the full article聽here
The Office of Sustainability is hiring a Graphic Design intern!
Internship Opportunity with 91导航视频 Office of SustainabilityPOSITION: Graphic Design Intern (Communications Assistant C)
91导航视频 recognized as International Sustainability Institution of the Year
91导航视频 Reporter | July 17, 2019
By: Kelsey Litwin
Read the full article here
91导航视频 was named the International Green Gown Award鈥檚 Sustainability Institution of the Year for its 鈥渁mbitious yet realistic鈥� Vision 2020 Sustainability Strategy.
91导航视频 is hiring a SDG Campus Coordinator
91导航视频, as a member of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), is looking to appoint a SDG Campus Coordinator for the 2019-2020 academic year. The coordinator鈥檚 role will be to raise student awareness of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), mobilise students/student clubs around the SDGs and act as a point of contact between 91导航视频 student body and the SDSN Youth.
Sustainability Projects Fund Seeking Faculty Member for Working Group
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is looking for a Faculty representative to sit on its Working Group (WG) starting in Fall 2018 for a two-year mandate.
Sustainability Projects Fund Seeking PGSS Members for Working Group
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is looking for a PGSS representative to sit on its Working Group starting in September 2018 for a one- to two-year mandate. The PGSS representative would be one of eight Working Group members, who ensure that the SPF meets its mandate to build a culture of sustainability on 91导航视频 campuses through the development and seed-funding of interdisciplinary projects.
