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Welcome back to campus!

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Professor Will Gage, associate vice-president teaching and learning, offers a warm welcome back to campus and introduces some new initiatives his office is pursuing.

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Team tasked with reimagining course delivery

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A small, multidisciplinary team has been hard at work exploring new ways to enhance online courses and the experiences of instructors, students and administrative staff. They’ve developed an innovative course design concept known as the perpetual course model.

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Pointing graduate students toward the future

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Graduate students are often so focused on their research, coursework and other commitments that they may not initially consider planning for skills development opportunities, so the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University has developed a framework to assist: the Individualized Development Plan.

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Celebrating experiential education’s pandemic successes

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Experiential education was the star of two recent celebratory events held at York University. Both events showcased how students and faculty have been able to pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep experiential education thriving during a year of teaching and learning remotely.

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York’s Dahdaleh Institute launches novel web-based tool to ensure safe drinking water

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Researchers at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, in partnership with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors Without Borders), launched the Safe Water Optimization Tool S(WOT), the first concrete application of artificial intelligence for improving safe water supply in humanitarian operations.

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