Previous panels
Water security
According to the United Nations Water, water security is, "the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-related disasters, and for preserving ecosystems in a climate of peace and political stability." (Working definition, UN-Water, 2013)
In our panel on water security we talked to the following community members:
- Dr. Kerry McPhedran (PhD) - (USask) Centennial Enhancement Chair in Water Stewardship for Indigenous Communities, and professor in Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering
- Dr. John Pomeroy (PhD) - Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, UNESCO Chair in Mountain Water Sustainability, director of the Global Water Futures and Global Water Futures Observatories programs at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and the director of USask’s Centre for Hydrology
- Dr. Michelle Foigel Siqueira (PhD) - Assistant Professor, Scientific Director, Sterilizer and Waterline Monitoring Service, Academic Director, College of Dentistry, Usask (DDS, DSc)
- Matthew Taylor - PhD Candidate, School of Environment and Sustainability
Artificial intelligence across the disciplines (2023-2024)
ChatGPT was released on November 30th, 2022, and has changed the way people look at information gathering and, sometimes, information generation. This series was to help showcase how researchers from different disciplines think about, research, and/or develop artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT.
This multidisciplinary panel was the first in the series and occurred during Academic Awareness Week in 2023. The panelists were:
- Dylan Merrick - Indigenous Studies, PhD Candidate. His research examines how virtual healthcare technologies can best serve Indigenous peoples.
- Will Buschert - Sessional Lecturer in Philosophy
- Julita Vassileva - Professor of Computer Science
- Zhi Li - Associate Professor in Linguistics
This multidisciplinary panel was the second in the series and occured in January, 2024. The panelists were:
- Melanie Hamilton, Director of Jane and Ron Graham Centre for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Francis Bui, Graduate Chair Biomedical, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Ben Dunning, Management and Marketing - Edwards School of Business
- Colin Laroque, Department Head, Soil Science - College of Agriculture and Bioresources
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