The Scientific Director and CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute is attending the COP26 climate meetings in Glasgow, Scotland this week, where she will make presentations and press the case for the ocean to be part of the discussion around reaching global carbon targets.

In this week's column, Dr. Saini discusses how committed and generous support — from within the university and beyond — helps enable the success of »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥'s students.

A graduate student advisory council has been established to help build »ÆÉ«Ö±²¥'s new BIPOC Graduate Student Mentoring Academy, a program that connects students of colour with mentors of colour.

Françoise Baylis has been named to a prestigious multidisciplinary committee that will plan the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing being held in London next year.

Sir Hilary Beckles will offer reflections during a talk next week as part of a pre-conference event — Slavery and Reparations: African Nova Scotia, Canada and Beyond — to help set the stage for the 2023 Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Conference in Halifax.