Nona Moscovitz, the instructor for the MSW advanced clinical practice Use of Self course and the BSW Integrative Seminar and Mental Health courses, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the CIUSSS Centre-Ouest de I’Ile de Montreal as the mental health expert on the board.
This appointment recognizes Nona’s extensive practice, supervision and teaching experience in this area. Felicitations Nona!
This memo is sent on behalf of Julie Ghayad, Director Systems and Transaction Services
Dear Colleagues,
Since 3465 Durocher has sustained water damage, our employees have very limited access to the building.
All Financial Services’ mail is being redirected to Student Accounts. Please refrain from using the drop box in the lobby of 3465 Durocher and send all documents/cheques via internal mail instead.
The COVID-19 pandemic was incredibly costly, for the health of the population and the economy. But the next infectious disease pandemic could be even worse. Politicians can choose to prevent it, but they need to take action now, argues Joanne Liu (MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16) in Scientific American. For this to happen, there needs to be a leader-level council that identifies gaps in preparedness, mobilizes finances where they are needed, and holds its stakeholders accountable.
2021 was an anti-climactic year for Black Friday sales. Global supply chains had been disrupted, inventory was very low, and demand was very high. So, retailers had little incentive to sell items at discounted prices. 2022 has been a little different, said Prof Maxime Cohen in an interview with CTV News. Some supply chain disruptions have been alleviated, and there is excess inventory in certain product categories. This set of circumstances encourages retailers to discount products more aggressively.
Europe’s energy crisis has highlighted the gap between the green energy production that we want, and the fossil fuel energy infrastructure that we actually have. When Russia cuts off the flow of natural gas to Europe, there simply is not enough green energy to compensate, said Eric Reguly of The Globe and Mail in an interview with Prof. Karl Moore for Les Affaires. Twenty years ago, green energy was growing faster than it is today, Reguly said.
The job that you think you are applying for can be pretty different from the work that you actually do. It’s crucial to know why this happens, says Associate Professor Lisa Cohen. Sometimes hiring managers do not know precisely what their organization will need in the months and years to come. In other cases, the organization’s needs are evolving, and it needs to adapt to changing circumstances. This can be frustrating for employees, and can even lead to conflict in the workplace.
Dr. John Orlowski magnum opus review article entitled “Determinants, Maintenance and Function of Organellar pH” written by Spencer Freeman, Sergio Grinstein and John Orlowski has just been published in Physiological Reviews : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35981302
Harvard’s Tiya Miles won the 2022 Cundill History Prize for her book All that she carried: The journey of Ashley’s sack, a Black family keepsake. The prize was launched by Peter Cundill (BCom’60) in 2008, and is administered by McGill. It awards $75,000 each year to a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. The Cundill History Prize awards an additional $10,000 to two other award finalists.
Global Traveler magazine named Air Canada the best airline in North America for the fourth year in a row, but this honour is a relative one, according to Prof. Karl Moore. According to Moore, it shows just how bad some of the other airlines in North America are. Global Traveler caters to an affluent audience of frequent fliers, and Air Canada does have an excellent business class product, with lie-flat beds and meals designed by Montreal chef Antonio Park. For international flights, Air Canada is hard to beat, said Moore.
Full details: https://sciencepolicy.ca/posts/canada-needs-to-democratize-access-to-state-of-the-art-technologies-and-expertise/
Honorary doctorate degree of the University of Silesia to Michael C. Mackey will be taking place online on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 9 a.m.(GMT-4) via the University of Silesia YouTube Channel youtube.com/UniwersytetSlaski.
