Working under the leadership of Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Science at Massey aims to develop programs, round tables, seminars and linkages for the broad discussion of scientific issues, research, policies and challenges. Working closely and collaboratively with Junior Fellows in the interdisciplinary tradition of Massey College, Dr. Sherwood Lollar will help lead and encourage robust science-related events and discussions at Massey open to the entire Massey community.
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November 8, 2023
Each year Massey College and Science@Massey host the Franklin Forum on a topic at the intersection of Science, Engineering, Public Policy and Society. In honour of Dr. Ursula Franklin, who was a beloved Senior Fellow and the first woman to be made University Professor at the University of Toronto, we will hold an in-person event with the fellowship on Space, Science and Society.
8th Annual Ursula Franklin Forum
Massey College – Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers
2023-2024 Sponsors:
Science at Massey (Chair: Barbara Sherwood Lollar)
No topic has been tackled from more angles – from cosmology, biology, physics and chemistry, to the moral, philosophical and artistic perspectives.
In November 2023, we held a wide-ranging event beginning with an opening public lecture by Dr. Nita Sahai of the University of Akron from the science perspective. Dr Haley Sapers, York University; Dr. Charles Stankievech, Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design, U of T and Dr. Joel Ong, Computational Arts, York University joined a panel to discuss the aesthetic and artistic perspective and inspiration on origins of life that informs public interaction and discussion on this fascinating topic.
Schedule of events
1-1:15pm
1:15pm
2:00pm
2:30pm
3:00pm – Panel: Artistic and Aesthetic Perspectives
4:00pm
Joel Ong’s work concerns art-making at the “end of the world”, inspired by creative and academic practices that are attuned to human and more-than-human social justice by shaping cultural imaginaries through and despite the urgency of the Anthropocene. As an artist, his works have been shown internationally at the Currents New Media Festival, Nuit Blanche, Seattle Art Museum, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Times Square, Stamps Gallery and more. Joel is an alumni of SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts in Western Australia, and holds a PhD in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from the University of Washington. He is currently Associate Professor in Computational Arts and the Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Nita Sahai is a Professor of the Dept of Polymer Science, as well as Geoscience and of Biology at the University of Akron. Her research focuses on the physical-chemical aspects of biomolecular and inorganic ion interactions at mineral surfaces in processes relevant to the origins and early evolution of life and bone biomineralization. She earned her Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 1997. Following an NSF post-doctoral Fellowship, Prof. Sahai obtained tenure and was a Full Professor in the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2000-2011. Prof. Sahai is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, the Distinguished Lecturer of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2013-2014, and holds the Ohio Research Scholar in Biomaterials Chair at the University of Akron. She has received awards at various stages of her career, including the NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prof. Sahai serves served on the National Academies of Science’s Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science, which advises NASA. She has recently appeared in “Fireball,” co-directed by Werner Herzog and Dr. Clive Oppenheimer; has been interviewed on National Public Radio several times and her research on Public Broadcasting Service channel (PBS WVIZ).
Haley Sapers is an Adjunct Professor York University. She completed her PhD in planetary science at Western University in 2012 as a Vanier Scholar. As a Human Frontier in Science Program postdoctoral fellow, Sapers joined the NASA Astrobiology Institute and worked jointly between the California Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the Mars Perseverance SHERLOC science team developing life detection technologies based on Raman spectroscopy as well as characterizing deep subsurface microbial communities. Presently, Sapers is an adjunct professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University where she leads research expeditions to the high Arctic to better understand the microbial mechanisms involved in permafrost methane cycling. Sapers is also involved in instrument development including Raman and methane spectrometers. These instruments are designed both for deployment to remote terrestrial settings as well as future Mars missions to investigate the possibility for past or present life in the Martian subsurface.
Charles Stankievech is an artist redefining “fieldwork” at the convergence of geopolitics, deep ecologies, and sonic resonances. From the Arctic’s northernmost settlement to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, Stankievech’s practice uncovers the paradoxes of our existence on the planet by engaging with the imperceptible. Exhibitions and performances at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Kunst-Werke Berlin; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; TBA21, Vienna; ISSUE Project, New York City; TAE Foundation, Mexico; Venice Biennale; Santa Fe Biennial; Berlin Biennale; and Documenta 13. He co-founded the Yukon School of Visual Art and K. Verlag. He’s been editor at Afterall Journal since 2015, and his writing has been published by MIT, Verso, e-flux, and Sternberg. He is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, and visiting professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo for 2022–23.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Rt Hon. Julie Payette, Senior Fellow
The Right Honourable Julie Payette is an astronaut, engineer, scientific broadcaster and corporate director. She flew two missions in space, covering 16.5 million kilometres over 611 hours and 402 orbits of the Earth. Ms. Payette was chief astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency and also worked for many years as CAPCOM (Capsule Communicator) at NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston. Throughout her career, she has served on several public and non-profit boards and has been active in the development of public policies for science and technology. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., scientific authority for Quebec in the United States, director of the Montréal Science Centre. She served as Canada’s 29th governor general from 2017 to 2021. Ms. Payette holds 28 honorary degrees, is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Knight of l’Ordre National du Québec.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Topic: Curling – a whole different view on the science of rocks and frozen water
The Talk will cover: The Granite, The Ice, The Equipment, The Strategy and the Social side of Curling and how it all relates back to Scientific Principals.
Matt Glandfield is the Director of Business Operations at Massey College. Matt has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resources and Economics from Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. When not at the college, Matt is active in the sport of curling having recently competed on the provincial level and on the World Curling Tour. Currently, Matt is President of the High Park Club in Toronto and a representative of the Ontario Curling Federation. He has been playing competitively and recreationally for over 30 years and enjoys teaching the sport to new players regardless of ability. The sport of curling pairs athleticism with academics and yes lots of science.
September 27, 2022
Each year Massey College and Science@Massey host the Franklin Forum on a topic at the intersection of Science, Engineering, Public Policy and Society. In honour of Dr. Ursula Franklin, who was a beloved Senior Fellow and the first woman to be made University Professor at the University of Toronto, we will hold an in-person event with the fellowship on Space, Science and Society. Speakers include Massey Senior Fellow and Director of CITA, Dr. Juna Kollmeier. She will present Our Galileo Moment and our Cosmic Future. There will be a panel discussion, Q&A and reception to follow.
7th Annual Ursula Franklin Forum
Massey College – Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers
2022-2023 Sponsors:
Science at Massey (Chair: Barbara Sherwood Lollar)
Schedule of events
1-1:15pm
1:15-2:00pm
2:00-2:15pm
2:15- 2:45pm
2:45-3:45 pm
3:45-4:45 pm
JUNA KOLLMEIER
Juna Kollmeier is a Massey Senior Fellow and Director of Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA). She is the Director of SDSS-V, an unprecedented panoptic spectroscopic survey that will yield optical and infrared spectra of over 6 million objects. Her research is primarily focused on the emergence of structure in the universe. She combines cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and analytic theory to figure out how the tiny fluctuations in density that were present when the universe was only 300,000 years old, become the galaxies and black holes that we see now, after 14 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Kollmeier received a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (2000) and a Ph.D in astronomy from The Ohio State University (2006). She was a Hubble and Carnegie-Princeton Fellow before founding the Theory program at the Carnegie Observatories in 2008. She is the 2022 Solvay International Chair in Physics.
PETER MARTIN
Peter G Martin, OC, FRSC, FRCGS is a professor of theoretical astrophysics in CITA and Senior Fellow of Massey College. His research is on interstellar matter, the gas and dust in the near vacuum between the stars from which new stars and planetary systems are born. Over the past decade he has enjoyed working on the interpretation of exquisite data from the Herschel Space Observatory and the Planck Surveyor (team awarded the Gruber Cosmology Prize) and he is looking forward to similar exploits with the James Webb Space Telescope, where he has been a science team member associated with the main camera NIRCam since 2002. He joined the faculty at UofT in 1972 following his PhD at the University of Cambridge (DAMTP) with Dennis Sciama and Martin Rees and has held visiting positions in Cambridge, Paris, Pasadena, Santa Cruz, and Tucson. He is keen that the next generations have similar amazing international opportunities and so has worked to create such crucibles as CITA and the Dunlap Institute.
JULIE PAYETTE
The Right Honourable Julie Payette is an astronaut, engineer, scientific broadcaster and corporate director. She flew two missions in space, covering 16.5 million kilometres over 611 hours and 402 orbits of the Earth. Ms. Payette was chief astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency and also worked for many years as CAPCOM (Capsule Communicator) at NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston. Throughout her career, she has served on several public and non-profit boards and has been active in the development of public policies for science and technology. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., scientific authority for Quebec in the United States, director of the Montréal Science Centre and co-producer of scientific outreach programs on Radio-Canada. She holds an engineering degree from McGill University (B.Eng) and a master from the University of Toronto (M.A.Sc). Julie Payette served as Canada’s 29th governor general from 2017 to 2021. Ms. Payette holds 28 honorary degrees, is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Knight of l’Ordre National du Québec.
BARBARA SHERWOOD LOLLAR
Barbara Sherwood Lollar CC FRS NAE FRSC, FRCGS – University Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Toronto is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2015), the Geochemical Society (2019) and European Association of Geochemistry (2019). She is Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies (CIFAR) program Earth 4D – Subsurface Science and Exploration. She is currently a member of the Eni Prize Commission (2013-2021), the American Geophysical Union Honors and Recognition Committee, the United States National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board, and Fellows Selection Committee for the Royal Society London UK.
Honouring of the centenary of the birth of Dr. Ursula Franklin
September 21, 2021
6th Annual Ursula Franklin Forum
Massey College – Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers
2021-2022 Co-sponsors:
Science at Massey (Chair: Barbara Sherwood Lollar) and the Dept of Materials Science and Engineering (Dr. Glenn Hibbard, Chair)
Schedule of events
1-1:20 pm
Speakers
1:20-1:40 pm
1:40-2:10 pm
2:10- 2:40 pm
2:40-3:00 pm
Barbara Sherwood Lollar CC FRS NAE FRSC, FRCGS – University Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Toronto is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2015), the Geochemical Society (2019) and European Association of Geochemistry (2019). She is Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies (CIFAR) program Earth 4D – Subsurface Science and Exploration. She is currently a member of the Eni Prize Commission (2013-2021), the American Geophysical Union Honors and Recognition Committee, the United States National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board, and Fellows Selection Committee for the Royal Society London UK.
Glenn Hibbard is the Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department at the University of Toronto. He grew up in Edmonton and did an undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Alberta, graduating in 1997. He then moved to Toronto for graduate school, finishing a PhD in 2002 during which time he spent two years as a Resident Junior Fellow at Massey College. He became a faculty member with the MSE Department in 2004 and then became Chair of the department in 2019. He is broadly interested in how people learn from materials.
Phil De Luna is a scientist and carbontech innovator turned first-time candidate for political office. He is currently on leave from the National Research Council of Canada where he led a $57M Canada-made cleantech program. De Luna is a Governor General Gold Medal scientist and has published in high-impact journals like Science and Nature. He was a Carbon XPRIZE finalist, a Forbes Top 30 Under 30, and hosts a podcast about science and behaviour. De Luna is currently the Green Party of Canada candidate for Toronto-St. Paul’s and is running to bring more diversity to parliament and more science to politics.
Carson Dueck is a PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Toronto. His work connects the fields of optimization, pilot decision-making, aircraft development, and machine learning. He has worked on experimental aircraft projects at the University of Toronto since 2009. His interest in machine learning has guided his application of pilot decision-making in the study of material systems.
Dr. Jane Freeman is the founding Director of U of T’s Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC). She specializes in Oral/Written Communication, Classical Rhetoric, and Shakespeare. A former Junior Fellow of Massey, and a current Senior Fellow, Jane worked closely with Ursula Franklin to recover and restore several of Ursula’s public lectures: lectures that existed only in damaged recordings and that were in danger of being lost. Their collaboration resulted in a book: Collected Speeches of Ursula Franklin 1986-2012: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.
Dr. Doug Perovic is Professor and Celestica Chair in Materials for Microelectronics in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. A renowned authority on forensic engineering and failure analysis, Dr. Perovic has led many investigations in Canada and the United States, often serving as the voice of the profession in the media on high profile cases. He championed Canada’s first undergraduate and graduate university level courses on Forensic Engineering and Certificate in Forensic Engineering Program at U of T. Dr. Perovic is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and co-director of the Ontario Centre for Characterization of Advanced Materials (OCCAM)
Dr. Vanda Vitali is an international museum Executive. A physicist and art historian by training, she has been a member of the international museum community for the last three decades.
Dr. Vitali is currently CEO of the Canadian Museum Association and lives in Ottawa, Canada. She has worked extensively with museums in Canada and the United States – including the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, where she served as Museological Advisor to its President, directed the Museum’s Institute for Contemporary Culture, and envisioned a master plan for the Museum’s galleries and exhibits. She was also a Vice President of Public Programs at the at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where she guided development of the Museum’s master plan.
Internationally, her work has taken her to New Zealand, where she was the CEO of the Auckland Museum and to France where she worked on the master planning of the Multimedia Museum of Mediterranean Civilizations. She worked extensively on heritage preservation policies and numerous international projects, including those in Greece, Tunisia, Madagascar, Gabon, Syria, and Morocco.
Career Transitions and Next Steps on the Journey:
Insights and Lessons Learned on the Path forward from Graduate Studies
March 2021
In addition to panel discussions there will be ample time to virtually meet and exchange ideas with the panelists. Make this the first step on your own career progression plan and find out how to help build a path to your dreams.
1:00-1:15 pm Welcome and Land Acknowledgment – Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers Introduction to Science@Massey and the annual Ursula Franklin Forum program history – Barbara Sherwood Lollar
1:15-1:45 pm Panel I Opening comments and introduction to their personal career progression with focus on the lessons learned from managing career transition (in the past as well as future transitions)
Panel I: Career Leaders
Adrian de Leon (Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California and Massey College Alumnus and former Don of Hall).
Daniel Taylor (Associate Professor of Voice and Opera, Faculty of Music – University of Toronto and Massey College Senior Fellow).
Edith Hillan (Director of the Doctoral Programs, Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing – University of Toronto, Massey College Senior Fellow and Member of the Governing Board).
Alia Weston (Associate Professor of Creative and Business Enterprise – OCAD University and Massey OCAD Visiting Scholar)
Elodie Passport (Associate Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental Engineering and Stable Isotopes. Cross-appointed in the departments of Civil & Mineral Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry – University of Toronto)
1:45-2:15 pm Panel I
Discussion and Moderated Q&A from audience
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30- 3:15 Panel II Opening comments and introduction to their personal career progression with focus on the lessons learned from managing career transitions from undergraduate to Masters to Doctoral and to Postdoctoral positions.
Panel II From Masters to PhD to Postdoctoral Careers
Ann Ojeda (Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences – Auburn University)
Julian Posada (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information, Massey College Junior Fellow and former Don of Hall)
Alero Gure (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Earth Sciences – University of Toronto)
Si Yue Guo (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physical Chemistry – University of Toronto and Massey Alumna)
3:15-3:50 pm Panel II
Discussion and Moderated Q&A from audience
3:50 pm Closing Comments and encouragement to engage as a Mentor or Mentee at Massey – Elena Ferranti
Adrian De Leon is a poet, educator, and historian at the University of Southern California, where he is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and serves on the steering committee at the Center for Transpacific Studies. His research investigates race, indigeneity, and migrant labor in the Philippines and its global diasporas. In 2019, he received his PhD in History at the University of Toronto, where he was also a Junior Fellow and Don of Hall at Massey College. His research on Philippine indigeneity and migration received the Governor General’s Gold Medal, as well as support from SSHRC and the Fulbright Scholarship. He is the author of Rouge (Mawenzi House, 2018) and barangay: an offshore poem (Wolsak & Wynn, 2021), and is the co-editor of FEEL WAYS: A Scarborough Anthology (Mawenzi House, 2021). His work has been featured in National Geographic, The Conversation, ABC7 Eyewitness News, ABC Nightline, Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone.
Daniel Taylor is Associate Professor of Voice and Opera and Head of the Historical Performance Area at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. His scholarship and teaching include exploring the relationship between performance and well-being leading to the building of healthy and sustainable technique. Daniel is a Visiting Faculty Member of the Siena Liberal Arts University (Italy), Victoria Conservatory of Music in British Columbia (Canada), Casalmaggiore (Italy), the Académie Fourvière Lyon (France) and Amalfi Opera (Italy). He has given guest masterclasses across Canada and internationally. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Choir and Orchestra of the Theatre of Early Music and of the Trinity Choir. Appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada, his citation read: “one of our country’s most celebrated cultural ambassadors, distinguishing himself with moving performances and known for his warmth and humour. (photo credit: Jazmina Alzaiat Photography).
Edith M Hillan PhD, FAAN After qualifying as a nurse and midwife, Edith worked in clinical practice, research and education. She moved to the University of Toronto in 2001 and before this held a Personal Chair of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow, Scotland UK. Her current academic appointment is held in the Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto where she is Director of the Doctoral Programs. From 2004-16 she served two successive terms as Vice-Provost at the University of Toronto where her major area of responsibility was academic personnel issues, particularly in relation to Faculty Renewal and Faculty Life Issues such as recruitment, appointment, tenure, promotion etc., across the three campuses. Her current research examines the health of women and newborns from a global perspective. She is particularly interested in technologies which can improve access to high quality healthcare in rural and remote settings and aim to end preventable deaths of mothers and neonates. She is a Senior Fellow of Massey College and also serves as a member of the Governing Board.
Alia Weston is an Associate Professor of Creative and Business Enterprise at OCAD University. She is a practice-oriented scholar combining her applied research/teaching in business and her practice as a jewellery design. Through her scholarship Alia explores the intersection of business, creativity and social change. Using a critical perspective, she questions dominant paradigms and redefines how we understand knowledge; exploring themes such as critical business, creativity in resource constraints, social innovation, and experiential food methodology. She uses the Alia Weston Jewellery and Fireflies Atelier brands as a living case studies, teaching OCAD U students about the how-to aspects of running creative businesses. Prior to this, Alia held a faculty position at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK teaching organization theory and creativity to business students.
Elodie Passeport is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental Engineering and Stable Isotopes. Dr Passeport is cross-appointed in the departments of Civil and Mineral Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. She obtained her PhD in Water Sciences in 2010 from AgroParisTech in France, and then conducted a postdoc in the Plant and Microbial Biology department at UC-Berkeley and one in the Earth Sciences department at the University of Toronto.
Ann Ojeda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Auburn University. Her PhD is from University of Oklahoma and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. She studies the dynamics of human-environmental systems at the intersection of geology, environmental science and engineering, and public health. Her research focus is in water contamination and the ways in which water quality affects community health.
Julian Posada is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. His research, funded by an IDRC Doctoral Research Award, studies how social inequalities are reproduced through the human values embedded in machine learning datasets and algorithms, as well as the gendered and racialized nature of the support that Latin American data workers receive through their social networks. Previously, he worked for the Laboratory of Computer Science at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and holds a BA in the humanities from Sorbonne University and an MA in sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. His research, funded by an IDRC Doctoral Research Award, studies how social inequalities are reproduced through the human values embedded in machine learning datasets and algorithms, as well as the gendered and racialized nature of the support that Latin American data workers receive through their social networks. Previously, he worked for the Laboratory of Computer Science at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and holds a BA in the humanities from Sorbonne University and an MA in sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
Alero Gure completed her PhD at the University of Wyoming and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Earth Sciences department at the University of Toronto. In a broad sense, her research interest is in the dynamics between living organisms, their energy sources, and the resulting interchange with the environment. Currently, she is combining geochemistry and microbiology to identify new connections and differences between abiotic and biotic processes occurring in Earth’s deep subsurface; to translate fundamental studies on multiscale processes (e.g., fluid-rock-microbe interactions) to large-scale applications (e.g., nuclear waste disposal, emergence of life on Earth and other planets).
Si Yue Guo is a postdoctoral research associate in physical chemistry in Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik’s group at the University of Toronto where she is developing a new approach for computation using chemical reactions. An alumna Junior Fellow of Massey College, she has a Joint Honours BSc in Physics and Mathematics from McGill University and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Toronto, where she studied chemical reaction dynamics at crystal surfaces in Prof. John Polanyi’s lab.
Trust in Science and Engineering/ Trust in Scientists and Engineers – Issues of Data-driven decision making, policy issues and data sharing.
March 2020
Join us for the 4th Annual Ursula Franklin Forum tackling a series of topics united under the theme of trust in science and engineering and the challenge of developing partnerships and community trust in the topical areas of public health policy (touching on the anti-vaccine movement, and the recent coronavirus outbreak); societal challenges surrounding social and public partnerships to tackle climate change and waste disposal; and the intersection of AI with public trust and expectations.
1pm Welcome and Opening remarks Principal Nathalie DesRosiers
1:30- 2:45 First Part of Forum:
10 min presentation from each panelist on their background, engagement and perspective on how this issue impacts their activity and professional engagement
2:45-3:30 coffee break
3:30-5 pm
Second Part of the Forum:
Q&A and Panel Discussion guided by graduate student coordinators Daniel Hidru, Anastasia Korolj, Deborah Lokhorst, Amanda Loder, and Elizabeth Phillips.
5-6pm Reception
Maya Goldenberg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Her research in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science examines the intersection between science and values in both institutional and public domains. She is author of a forthcoming book on vaccine hesitancy and public understanding of science, A Crisis of Trust: Vaccine Hesitancy, Science, and Public Debate (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Jennifer McKelvie is the Toronto City Councillor for Ward 25, Scarborough Rouge-Park. She has been designated as Mayor’s Resilience & Environmental Champion and in that capacity has taken an active role in the City of Toronto’s climate change, resilience and ravine strategies. Before entering politics, Jennifer managed research partnerships at the NWMO and CIFAR. She obtained her training as an environmental geoscientist at the University of Toronto (PGeo, PhD).
Elissa Strome is the Interim VP Research and Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR and works at the interface of strategy, policy and leadership. From 2008 – 2015 she held senior leadership positions at University of Toronto’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, advancing major institutional strategic research priorities, including establishing and leading the SOSCIP research consortium. She is a member of the Federal Government’s AI Advisory Council.
Bob Watts is the Vice-President of Indigenous Relations at the NWMO. He has worked on a broad range of Indigenous issues at the regional and national levels for many years, including working to establish the historic Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The focus of his work includes examining ways the NWMO can the contribute to the reconciliation process in Canada, finding ways to ensure partnership is the cornerstone of relationship building with Indigenous and municipal communities and leading both policy and practical processes to interweave Indigenous knowledge and western science. Watts is also a former CEO of the Assembly of First Nations, served as the Chief of Staff to the Assembly of First Nations‘ National Chief Phil Fontaine, and is a former Assistant Deputy Minister for the Government of Canada. He is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and fellow at the Harvard Law School. Mr. Watts is from Mohawk and Ojibway ancestry and is a member of the Six Nations Reserve.
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