Notes from the field
Misstep turns Ugandan internship into journey of self discovery
By Annaliese Snodgrass
The way to Rukungiri, Uganda lies in a single, mostly unpaved road stretching from the country’s south central region deep into its southwest corner. In its many unpaved patches, the passing vehicles kick up the vibrantly red earth beneath them, leaving a dusty maroon veneer on the surrounding vegetation. As I watched the little mud huts and the patchy tin roofs covering one-room concrete houses flick past an incredibly lush green backdrop, a feeling unlike anything I had experienced began to well up inside me.
Applying mathematical models to complex mining operations at Newmont
By Sean Grogan
One of the more exciting developments in the last few decades in the mining industry has been the use of mathematical models, geo-statistics and other management science and statistical methods to create tools to be used in the decision making process for engineers, managers and shareholders.
A Summer of questions in Accra
By Lorenzo Daïeff
“Order!” The shout hails across the room. “Order!”
An elderly, black-robed man is trying to get some attention. “Oooorder!” All too little avail: as his voice echoes around the country, life in Accra, Ghana goes on like it always has: people walk through the streets, navigating narrowly between taxis and open gutters; the wind, carrying an Atlantic breeze, sweeps over the city; and I, sitting at my desk, type away at my keyboard.
Waking up in the Rockies or How a city boy survived – and thrived – in the wilderness
By Saleh Ewan
Mining Engineering Co-op term… to many it conjures up a job in the middle of nowhere, working underground in the dark; away from civilization. However, for me that was far from the case as I found myself literally on top of the world.
In summer 2013, I was hired by Teck Coal Ltd. for a Mining Engineering co-op term in British Columbia. I worked as a Mining Engineering Co-op student in their Survey, Geology and Geotechnical Departments. I worked at an open-pit coal mine on top of the Rocky Mountains.
Un double X dans l’équation du mouvement
Par Annabelle Chuinard
Un laboratoire dans la cour arrière : explorer Montréal à travers ses initiatives en développement durable
Par Mariève Isabel
Libraries as tools for change: My experience with Librarians Without Borders in Guatemala
By Carolyne Ménard
Hot Cities report: Russia is many things, but boring isn’t one of them

The Hot Cities party poses with a clown outside Moscow's famous GUM department store. / Photo: Charmaine Linsley
By Allison Lickley
Lending a helping hand right here at home
By Elizabeth Dvergsten-Beauce
[Editor’s note: Identifiable information has been changed in the following article to respect the anonymity of clients at Chabad Lifeline.]
The ethical caveats of translating children’s literature
By Eléonore Buchet-Deàk