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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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Want to volunteer? Update your profile (link at the bottom of this email) and check the Volunteers list.
View the 2012-13 brochure of Student Opportunities!
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Read the latest W3
WCR #18 - May 2013
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Graduating Students?
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DIRECTOR DAWN BAZELY RECIPIENT OF PRESIDENT'S UNIVERSITY-WIDE TEACHING AWARD
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For Senior Full-Time Faculty!
Professor Dawn Bazely of the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science received the award in the Senior Full-Time Faculty category at convocation last week.
The Senate Committee on Awards was impressed with the evident time and effort Bazely puts into thinking and writing about teaching, and making innovative changes to her courses. Students praised her ability to bring her research and life experience into the classroom, noting that she is a great mentor and wonderful role model whose passion inspires.
"It is a great honour to receive this award, especially because I have spent five of the last six years being the director of a research institute. To my mind, teaching and research go hand in hand and are completely intertwined," says Bazely. "Those teachers who most inspired me during my undergraduate and graduate student times are (were) also outstanding and quite famous researchers. Not only were they my role models, but I also consider the wonderful students that I have had the privilege of teaching at York to be important role models for learning, teaching and research."
Read more about the President's University-Wide Teaching Awards (UWTA).
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KEVIN MCKAGUE IS THIS YEAR'S RECIPIENT OF A GOLD GOVERNOR GENERAL'S ACADEMIC MEDAL
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McKague is a Core Faculty member of IRIS
Kevin McKague (PhD '12), a graduate of the Schulich School of Business, is this year's recipient of a gold Governor General's Academic Medal. He is dedicated to finding a way to alleviate global poverty and increase sustainability.
In his PhD thesis, Making Markets Work for the Poor, McKague investigated how low-income countries can maximize the objectives of all individuals in value chains, including improving the social and financial benefits for low-income participants and private sector organizations. His research site examined the work to strengthen the dairy value chain by CARE Bangladesh. It focused on improving incomes among 35,000 small and landless dairy producers in northwest Bangladesh. Read more.
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 JUNE 25TH: GREEN CHURCH TOUR
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Come visit St. Gabriel's Passionate Parish
 IRIS will be visiting St. Gabriel's Passionate Parish from noon until 1pm on Tuesday, June 25th. The tour is being organized by Prof. Arlene Gould and is part of the Green Building Summer Course. The church is located at 670 Sheppard Ave. E. If you are interested in visiting the church with us, please RSVP to Annette at afdubreu@yorku.ca
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IRIS ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013
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Hot off the presses!
 Read the 2012-2013 IRIS Annual Report.
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More About IRIS and this Newsletter
The Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability is a university-wide research centre that pursues an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of sustainability. Through our collaborations on sustainability related research projects and innovative initiatives, we hope to generate awareness amongst the York University community of our social, natural and economic spheres, while engaging students, staff and faculty in action that creates change on campus and beyond.
The IRIS Newsletter is a way to keep you informed about what we are up to so that you can drop by an event, get involved, or just learn about what research projects we are currently undertaking. The Newsletter is sent out once or twice per month, highlighting the IRIS, York University, and broader community's sustainability news and events!
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