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Student Job: Special Projects Assistant, Frontend Developer
JOBID7760 Eligibility Requirements: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs Rate: $14/hour Hours: Up to 10 hours/week Start and End date: Sept 4, 2019 – April 24, 2020 Application close date: Thursday August 28th@11:59pm Applications are only accept…
Student Job: Special Projects Assistant, Backend Developer
JOBID7761 Eligibility Requirements: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs Rate: $14/hour Hours: Up to 10 hours/week Start and End date: Sept 4, 2019 – April 24, 2020 Application close date: Thursday August 28th@11:59pm Applications are only accept…
Student Job: Humanitarian Engineering Research Assistant
JOBID8376 Eligibility Requirements: sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs Rate: $16/hour Hours: Up to 5 hours/week Start and End date: Sept 4, 2019 – April 24, 2020 Application close date: Sunday August 18th@11:59pm Applications are only accepted…
Eight New Student Jobs at the Dahdaleh Institute
Eight student positions with the Dahdaleh Institute are open for applications. Applications are only accepted through the Career Centre. Go to careers.yorku.ca/online-system/ and search for the posting with the JobID. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR…
Byomkesh Talukder Presents at Conference in Nanjing
The 8th Annual International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research saw Planetary Health Research Fellow Byomkesh Talukder present on a panel titled Conflict Resolution in Responsible Governance of Water Resources and Environmental…
Mark Terry Signs Book Deal with Palgrave Macmillan
UK publishing giant Palgrave Macmillan just signed a book deal with Postdoc Mark Terry for his new book The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change, which will be released within its Film, Culture and Media Studies stream. It is set…
Director & Research Fellow at System Dynamics Society Conference
Director James Orbinski and Planetary Health Research Fellow Byomkesh Talukder attended the 37th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, July 21-25, 2019. The conference theme was “Resilience and Sustain…
Dahdaleh Institute Attending Planetary Health Annual Meeting
Leading researchers and policymakers in planetary health, including Director James Orbinski and Research Fellow Byomkesh Talukder, will convene in September at Stanford University. This is the only conference where the Planetary Health Alliance network…
Natural Language Processing Project Takes Shape
Over the course of the 2018-2019 academic year, a new project took shape at the Dahdaleh Institute. Led by PhD. Candidate Tino Kreutzer, Improving Humanitarian Needs Assessments Through Natural Language Processing brings Artificial Intelligen…
Carol Devine Bolsters Motion on Humanitarian Climate Emergency
Community Scholar Carol Devine helped present a successful motion on climate change and humanitarianism at this year’s Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Annual General Assembly. The motion was titled A Matter of Urgency: MSF Role, Responsibility and Capaci…