Karine Gagné has a new published article in Sapien Anthropology Magazine.
"In the Indian Himalayas, elders see a link between the erosion of community and the erosion of ice."
Read more about the publication at Sapien.org.
Madhur Anand's experimental memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir of Halves, was among five finalists in the non-fiction category. Anand is Professor of Ecology at the University of Guelph.
Campus proposed in Brampton’s new Centre for Innovation
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University of Guelph's Visiting International Research Student (VIRS) program has resumed.
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Gagne's book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas was awarded the 2019 James Fisher Prize for First Books on the Himalayan Region! https://anhs-himalaya.org/awards/fisher-prize
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Dr. Praveen Saxena delivered the Dr G Rangaswami Endowment Lecture at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India in March 2020.
Dr.Jayasankar Subramanian is one of the recipients of the 2020 Grant’s Desi Achiever award. The Grant’s Desi Achiever Award recognizes the outstanding service to the community and setting the bar higher for south Asians in Canada.
Muhammad Saif Islam, from the School of English and Theatre Studies, defended his MA thesis, Representing the Partition of 1947: Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag, Such a Long Journey, and A Fine Balance as Political Allegories (co-advisors Ajay Heble and Gregor Campbell), September 2020.
Josie Wittmer successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Women's work in the 'clean city': Perspectives on wellbeing, waste governance, and inclusion from the urban margins in Ahmedabad India," on December 15, 2020.