Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate Data Analytics Professor Steve Easterbrook’s research group in the Department of Computer Science and School of the Environment at the University of Toronto is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work with us on a new funded project, Data Analytics for Canadian Climate Services (DACCS). The DACCS project is building a […]
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Professor Steve Easterbrook with Divest Canada Coalition calls for nationwide blanket divestment from fossil fuels at universities
Steve Easterbrook, Director of the School of Environment at U of T and a professor at the Department of Computer Science who is researching the applications of computer science and software engineering to the challenge of the climate crisis, wrote to The Varsity about U of T’s lack of action toward the issue. “To put it bluntly, […]
Professor Tanhum Yoreh receives Canadian Jewish Literary Award for the best book in the category of Jewish Thought and Culture
Professor Tanhum Yoreh was the recipient of the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Jewish Thought and Literature for his book Waste Not: A Jewish Environmental Ethic. The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards is honoured nine outstanding books for 2020. Now in its sixth year, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards recognizes and rewards […]
Professor Hui Peng recently published “Proteome-wide effects of naphthalene-derived secondary organic aerosol in BEAS-2B cells are caused by short-lived unsaturated carbonyls”
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) causes various adverse health outcomes, but identification of the toxic components remains infeasible for current methodology due to the existence of hundreds of unknown chemical components. In this study, we established a platform to tackle this challenge by combining atmospheric flow reactor, proteomics, reporter bioassays, and nontarget analysis. Short-lived unsaturated carbonyls […]
Can Gen Z save the planet? Professor Jessica Green has some thoughts
In the Refinery 29 article Can Gen Z Save The Planet? 5 Young Activists Open Up About What Drives Them, Professor Jessica speaks the eco-anxiety facing young activists. “Younger people see the total mess that Boomers and, to a lesser extent, millennials have left, and they have to figure out how to fix it,” says Jessica Green, […]
Professor Jessica Green is featured in the article “The Real Deal About Corporations’ Climate Plans”
The first step to understanding corporate climate plans is that all your reasons to be skeptical are almost certainly valid. Large corporations are driven by one goal: trying to separate you from your money. And they have traditionally done that in one way. “Corporations make money from exploiting the environment and other things,” Jessica Green, […]
