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Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Girma Bitsuamlak, Western University – Hurricane and tornado-proofing the world’s built treasures
Many of the world’s most iconic structures, such as the Freedom Tower in New York...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Marie-Jean Meurs, Université du Québec à Montréal – Building elegant models for tough problems
Dr. Marie-Jean Meurs has a background in theoretical math, applied math and compu...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi, Algonquin College – Furthering the study of photonics
As Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi speaks during an interview by Zoom, he explains that the w...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Benjamin Fung, McGill University – Killing computer virus variants
Dr. Benjamin Fung is in a constant game of cat and mouse; he is the cat, and the ...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Erin Dickie, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – Using HPC for mental health research
While she works with computers much of the time, Dr. Erin Dickie’s mission is to ...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Rebecca Davis, University of Manitoba – ‘Making atoms come together’ to help human health
Thanks to the breadth of her work in chemical biology, Dr. Rebecca Davis gets to ...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Pekka Sinervo, University of Toronto – Dr. Pekka Sinervo’s not-so-elementary physics
During his Zoom meetings, Dr. Pekka Sinervo sits in front of a photo of the ATLAS...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Philippe Després, Université Laval – Helping the cancer cause through HPC
Dr. Philippe Després uses high-performance computing to generate and analyze medi...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Amol Verma, Unity Health Toronto – How health data can improve patient care
Dr. Amol Verma’s team is one of the largest COVID-19 research groups in the world...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Constance Crompton, University of Ottawa – Empowering people through the digital humanities
Dr. Constance Crompton says the humanities empower people by showing how societie...
Jun 1, 2025
Dr. Laura Estill, St. Francis Xavier University – Mining Shakespeare’s gold
Dr. Laura Estill finds some interesting things when she’s scouring old manuscript...
Jun 1, 2025
Strategic Plan: The Journey That Awaits Us
I recently watched Pixar’s short movie Soul. One of the movie’s characters, a you...