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Ted Talks
Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish
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A record-setting long-distance swimmer, Diana Nyad writes and thinks deeply about motivation. For ten years (1969-1979), Diana Nyad was the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. In 1979, she stroked the longest swim in history, making the 102.5-mile journey from the island of Bimini (Bahamas) to Florida.
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Global Economy
To Serve Society Better, Capitalism Needs a Redesign
While how well the business community is meeting its social responsibilities is a matter of debate, efforts are needed to ensure that capitalism is fair and better serves society
Davos-Klosters – Capitalism needs to serve society better, business, banking, labour and academic leaders agreed in a lively debate on the opening day of the World Economic Forum’s 42nd Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters. Speaking in a session on the future of capitalism, which was hosted by Time magazine, Australian labour leader Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in Brussels.
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Environment
Experts meet at Laurier and UW to engage youth in leading environmental change
WATERLOO – Experts from Uganda, India, Bangladesh, Germany, the USA, and Canada will meet in Waterloo January 26 to 29 to discuss strategies for engaging youth in an international dialogue and collective action for environmental justice.
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Environment
First-in-Canada X-ray Machine to Call Carleton University Home
OTTAWA – Carleton University has received funding for a first-in-Canada, high-energy X-ray machine for Earth material research. Fred Gaidies, assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, was awarded $185,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
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Innovation
CFI Invests $1.2 Million in U of G Research ‘Leaders’
Guelph - The Canada Foundation of Innovation (CFI) announced it will invest more than $1.2 million in nine University of Guelph research projects headed by “innovation leaders.”
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Education
Colour Me Educated Launches With a Day in a Dumpster
WATERLOO - For the second year, the Colour Me Educated Campaign will be launched by trapping seven University of Waterloo students in a dumpster in the Student Life Center. The wacky fundraising event, scheduled for January 25 , was such a hit on campus last year that students demanded an encore.
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Innovation
CFI awards York researchers more than $950,000 in research infrastructure
Funding will support six projects in biology, kinesiology, political science, physics & astronomy and psychology
TORONTO — The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded York University $952,531 in infrastructure funding to support the research of six York professors.
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Expansion
New York City Department of Education Selects Desire2Learn Learning Suite
Desire2Learn platform will enable NYC DOE schools to take advantage of personalized online and blended learning opportunities
Baltimore - 2D2L Ltd. announced that the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) has selected Desire2Learn Learning Suite to enable their schools to more comprehensively take advantage of personalized online and blended learning opportunities.
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Health Research
Understanding the ties between music, the brain and how we move
London – A unique laboratory at The University of Western Ontario will help researchers study timing, rhythm and movement by understanding how the brain processes music.
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Quantum Security
University of Waterloo researcher leads quantum security innovation
WATERLOO - A breakthrough that could keep secret information completely safe from prying eyes would prove key to bringing quantum computing into real-world use, according to a team that includes a researcher at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing.
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Arts & Culture
City hall art spaces feature pastoral and Arctic exhibits
KITCHENER – Kitchener City Hall now has more ways to bring art to life, with its two indoor galleries and an outdoor one at the top of city hall’s Berlin Tower.
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Battle for Ca$h
University of Waterloo students win at national and provincial competitions
WATERLOO - January was a winning month for students from the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) at the University of Waterloo as they won or placed highly in three provincial and national competitions.
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Board Governance
Magna Adopts Further Corporate Governance Enhancements
AURORA - Magna International Inc. announced that its Board has adopted a number of further corporate governance enhancements as part of the evolution of its corporate governance practices.
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Appointments
Equation Technologies Announces Organization Changes as Part of 2012 Growth Strategy
Toronto – Equation Technologies announced the promotion of Lisa Vetro and Bharti Meisuria to Director Consulting Services; Ingrid Little to Director Client Services and Lisa Evans to Business Development Manager focusing on cloud computing applications.
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Guest Column
Balancing Multiple Generations at Work
By Jennifer FitzPatrick, MSW, LCSW-C
Since mandatory retirement has long been abolished in most industries, we are living in a time where there are multiple generations of employees working together. Healthy seasoned octogenarians working alongside college interns, and every age group in between, can make for a particularly generationally diverse workforce.
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