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Nov 30	Article by Dr. Farshid Shams receives Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended Paper (Thunder Bay) Congratulations to Dr. Farshid Shams, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration, whose article, The acceptance of halal food in non-Muslim countries: effects of religious identity, national identification, consumer ethnocentrism and consumer cosmopolitanism, has been selected as a Highly Commended Paper in the 2020 Emerald Literati Awards.
Nov 30	Lakehead University launches Global Indigenous Speaker Series (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Lakehead University's Office of Indigenous Initiatives, International and the Department of Indigenous Learning have collaborated to host a Virtual Global Indigenous Speaker Series, Imagining Possibilities through Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
Nov 27	Article by Dr. Rebecca Schiff receives Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended Paper (Thunder Bay) Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Schiff, Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences, whose article, Managed alcohol programs in the context of Housing First, has been selected as a Highly Commended Paper in the 2020 Emerald Literati Awards.
Nov 26	Lakehead University’s Board of Governors announces plan to divest from fossil fuel holdings (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) At its November 26, 2020 meeting, Lakehead University’s Board of Governors approved a motion that will see the institution divest from its fossil fuel holdings by the end of the University’s current Strategic Plan in 2023.
Nov 23	Board of Governors names Angela Maltese new Chair (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) With more than 35 years of experience in the accounting and financial services industry, including more than 15 years as a partner in a national accounting firm, Maltese is currently the Director of Finance and Operations for Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation.
Nov 19	Lakehead alum receives the Prime Minister’s Award (Thunder Bay) Congratulations to Lakehead alum Greg Chomut, (BABEd I/S History) a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School who recently received an award from the Prime Minister.
Nov 12	Letter from an alumna (Thunder Bay) See the following letter from Madison Sameshima, who was a Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) participant at Lakehead.
Nov 10	Lakehead welcomes the community to participate in International Education Week (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Lakehead University International (LUI) is excited to host the University's first ever International Education Week from November 16 to 20.
Nov 9	Anthropology professor honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award (Thunder Bay) Congratulations to Dr. Scott Hamilton (Dept. of Anthropology), honoured with the J.V. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ontario Archaeological Society at a virtual ceremony on Friday, Nov. 6.
Nov 2	Maclean's included Lakehead's Computer Science program among the top 20 in Canada (Thunder Bay) The Department of Computer Science at Lakehead University has been recognized as one of the top Computer Science programs in Canada in the Maclean's 2021 post-secondary evaluation rankings.
Nov 2	Lakehead presents In Conversation with Anne Dagg, the world’s first giraffologist (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) On Sunday, Nov. 15, Lakehead invites you to gather online to go behind the story of the critically-acclaimed documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.
Oct 30	Dr. Steven Jobbitt Publishes in Hungarian Studies Review 2020 (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) , (Online) Congratulations to Dr. Steven A. Jobbitt, Department of History on his recent publication in the Hungarian Studies Review
Oct 28	Lakehead University a founding partner of new UArctic Laera Institute for Circumpolar Education (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Lakehead University has joined Trent University, the University of Northern British Columbia, Yukon University, the Arctic State Agrotechnological University in Russia, and Nord University in Norway as a founding partner of the Laera Institute for Circumpolar Education (Laera Institute), a new institute within the international University of the Arctic (UArctic).
Oct 26	November is Financial Literacy Month! (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Join Student Awards and Financial Aid for a month full of informative events and great guest speakers.
Oct 26	Maclean’s ranks Lakehead University first in Ontario among primarily undergraduate universities (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Maclean’s has once again included Lakehead University among Canada’s top 10 primarily undergraduate universities in the magazine’s 2021 University Rankings.
Oct 26	LU prof published graphic novella about the opioid crisis (Thunder Bay) Lakehead's Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice, Dr. Max Haiven, has published a short web-based comic exploring the longer history of the ongoing opioid crisis, which has claimed over half a million lives in North America.
Oct 15	Lakehead’s CERAH receiving $127k to grow the Dementia Dialogue podcast (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University’s Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health is receiving this to market and grow a podcast about dementia, thanks to the Government of Canada’s Dementia Community Investment fund.
Oct 15	Save the date: Enhancing Prevention of Injury and Disability @ Work Research Institute - November EPID Talks (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) EPID TALKS will be taking place again on Wednesday, Nov. 25, from 12 to 1:30 pm via Zoom.
Oct 13	Share the Lakehead Experience with Future Thunderwolves (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) The Lakehead Experience Virtual Open House is taking place on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 10 am to 2 pm for future students interested in exploring their post-secondary options at Lakehead University.
Oct 6	Lakehead University and Health Research Institute team exploring new diagnostic drugs for cancer (Thunder Bay) The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has provided a Lakehead University and Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute team with a $98,655 grant to develop new drugs that will help prevent, diagnose and manage cancer.

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