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Elizabeth Nelson, PhD in Geography – Designing Intercultural Cities: Community Organizations & Care
This project explores the experiences of a diverse array of community organizations in Kingston, Ottawa, and Cornwall, Ontario, examining their relationship with municipalities and...
Elham Yousefinejad (Sociology) – Municipal climate change governance: A pathway to resilience-building and and vulnerability-reduction: A case study of Kingston, Ontario
In 2019, Kingston became the first municipality in Ontario to declare a ‘climate emergency’. This declaration stimulated further commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Francesco Marrato (Electrical & Computer Engineering) – Training a robot dog for search and rescue
Working with the Boston Dynamics Spot robot to develop autonomous exploration systems that use sound as a metric for where to search next. For...
Adaku Echendu (Environmental Studies) – Urban Flooding and Changing Landscapes: Improving Environmental Sustainability By Incorporating Urban Communities’ Experiences, Perceptions, and Knowledge in Environmental Management in Nigeria
Flooding is a disaster with ripple effects. Its environmental, social, and economic impacts are significant. Floods annually ravage Nigeria constituting an immediate and growing...
Annelies Verellen (Art History) – Women’s Self-portraiture in the Seventeenth Century
Annelies studies women’s strategy of self-fashioning in the early modern period, specifically through their self-portraits. She examines the prejudices embedded within the practice of...
Paulina Bleah (PhD in Nursing) – The Experience of Living with Diabetes in Liberia
Diabetes is a growing public health concern in Liberia; recent data shows about 2.1% of the population are living with the disease. This figure...