Faculty News

• A welcome back message for students from Dean Lisa Henderson

  January 2021: A welcome back message from Dean Lisa Henderson to FIMS students getting their Winter 2021 semester underway. "We miss FIMS students fiercely - your thinking, creativity, and work, your opinions, voices, groups, and company in FNB."

• Activist author Desmond Cole challenges journalists, media and status quo

  Western News, January 12: Advocacy and activism can be exhausting, Desmond Cole admits. But it’s less soul-searing than the systemic racism endured every day by Canadians who are Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.

• Q&A with Selena Guo, MIT student and Schwarzman Scholar

  Recently named as a 2021 Schwarzman Scholar, third-year MIT student Selena Guo answered some questions about her background, what she's looking forward to when she makes the move to Tsinghua University in August, and how MIT fits into the bigger picture.

• Selena Guo named among Class of 2022 Schwarzman Scholars

  From Western News: December 16, 2020: Though she was born in Beijing and moved in and out of China numerous times as she grew up, Selena (Jiying) Guo never had the opportunity to dig deeply into the question, "What is China really about?"

• Weird pandemic dreams are a thing, and researchers are collecting them

  Weird pandemic dreams are a thing, and researchers in Canada and U.K. are collecting them. Professor Sharon Sliwinski, creator of The Museum of Dreams research project, spoke with CBC News about her collaboration with the Museum of London, U.K.