Events
Campus Sustainability & Decarbonization
We’re back with our science encounters! A big thank you to Faizal Sudoollah and Jonathan Rausseo for their informative discussion on campus sustainability and decarbonization.
We’re back with our science encounters! A big thank you to Faizal Sudoollah and Jonathan Rausseo for their informative discussion on campus sustainability and decarbonization.
Our team just published an article in the Technology and Engineering Teacher. Mujawamariya, D., Fournier, J., Adatia, S., & Mavriplis, C. (October 2021). Designing to Engineer a Safer World. Technology and Engineering Teacher, 81(2), 8-14.
ANCWT is proud to be a media partner of the Women in IT Virtual Summit, Canada, which will take place virtually on October 20, 2020. This summit will facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking, with a focus on diversity in IT and new challenges in this sector. We will address Read more…
Check out our first virtual presentation! This video explores the evolution of sustainability at the University of Ottawa over the past decade. The presentation takes a brief look at climate, transportation, food, and waste programs and how they are evolving to meet the demands of the next generation. A big Read more…
We’re currently recruiting participants to fill out our questionnaire! Are you an engineering undergrad or grad student? Are you a professor or dean for a faculty of engineering? Are you an engineering field professional? If your answer is “yes” to any of these questions and you are residing in Canada, Read more…
We recently had a chance to learn more about sex and gender in cardiovascular research with Amy Johnston. Johnston is looking at risk factors associated with disease. For example, how smoking can cause cardiovascular disease. In this case, they are looking at sex and gender in cardiovascular disease. There seems Read more…
We all know plastic pollution is a global problem. Well, we recently had the opportunity to learn more about the microplastics and their effects on marine and human life. So, what are microplastics? The term microplastics was introduced in 2004 by Professor Richard Thompson. Microplastics refer to small fragments of Read more…
We had a wonderfully emotional time watching and discussing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This film is an inspirational true story of William Kamkwamba, a boy from Malawi who built a wind turbine to help his town gain power and running water. His town was in the middle of Read more…
Thanks to Professor Nafissa Ismail and graduate student Kevin Smith, we had the opportunity to learn how stress in adolescents can lead to mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety. Did you know that globally more than 300 million people are affected by depression and each year almost 800,000 people Read more…