Upcoming Events

The Office of Teaching and Learning will be hosting an online book club for CBS this fall around decolonization, Indigenization and reconciliation. Together, we will be reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and exploring conversations around decolonizing sciences and Indigenous sciences. Braiding Sweetgrass uses a unique combination of scientific research, Indigenous knowledge, and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s personal experience to examine humanity’s relationship with the earth today and what can be done to repair it. Kimmerer emphasizes that the current...

  Reconciling Competing Truths: Rethinking How We Prioritize in One Health with Sarah Robinson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University Dr. Robinson will share her journey from veterinary medicine to interdisciplinary research, highlighting how her thinking has evolved along the way, and some reflections for early career researchers carving out their own path in One Health. Dr. Robinson will discuss her current work on prioritization: how we decide what matters and where to direct limited resources across human, animal, and environmental...

On October 28th, HHS will be hosting a seminar by Dr. Joshua Cherubini, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. All are welcome to join. More about Dr. Cherubini's research: The vasculature is responsive to both biochemical signals in the circulatory milieu and biomechanical signals introduced by blood flow. This discussion will explore how interactions between lifestyle factors, including exercise and sleep duration, influence blood flow patterns to calibrate cardiovascular function across...