Faculty News

• Challenge Accepted: Could you go a year without purchasing anything new?

  Professor Alissa Centivany, an advocate and researcher of the right-to-repair movement, decided to make her work personal. She and her family spent a full year living their lives without purchasing anything new.

• Exhibit shows how bi- and multilingual Facebook posts become 'lost in translation'

  Master's student Shayla Reyes aims to increase awareness about the platform's 'invisible' machine translation process and its potential for miscommunication.

• The empty success of recent amendments to Canada's right-to-repair bill

  A 'carve-out' exemption is unnecessarily broad and may result in manufacturers using it to prevent our right to repair many electronic devices.

• 'Londombia' photo project celebrates the lives of Colombians in London

  CBC News, May 1 - FIMS instructor Juan Bello is heading an upcoming photo exhibit celebrating London's Colombian community and their history in the city.