About the Event

Discover the future for digital health innovation in Thunder Bay!
Join us, as 14 MBA student teams from Lakehead University present digital health solutions designed to tackle challenges within our healthcare system. This is a prime opportunity for healthcare professionals to connect with innovative ideas, collaborate on real-world projects, and access regional resources to ignite your own digital advancements. Join us to be part of transforming healthcare in our region.

Agenda

• Introduction to Digital Health Innovation resources and activities in our region
• Brief one-minute presentations by the MBA groups
• Symposium and poster session – ask the groups questions and network!

For more information, please email Mike Dohan at msdohan@lakeheadu.ca

Come celebrate and support local Indigenous artists and artisans. The Indigenous Craft Market during Research & Innovation Week will feature the diverse work of Metis, Inuit and First Nations makers. Browse beadwork, paintings, sculptures, crafts, and much more.

The Media, Film and Communications program will present its annual Media Arts Showcase – an exhibition of media artwork produced by students – on Thursday, March 7, on the Orillia campus. 

Everyone is invited to join students and faculty for a glimpse into what is happening in media art in our community. The showcase will feature works of video, sound, photography, memes, web design, interactive sculptures, and other digital media – representing the depth and wide-ranging interests of Lakehead students. 

The Media, Film and Communications program will present its annual Media Arts Showcase – an exhibition of media artwork produced by students – on Thursday, March 7, on the Orillia campus. 

Everyone is invited to join students and faculty for a glimpse into what is happening in media art in our community. The showcase will feature works of video, sound, photography, memes, web design, interactive sculptures, and other digital media – representing the depth and wide-ranging interests of Lakehead students. 

Faculty and researchers from a variety of disciplines will showcase their research, projects and initiatives. 

International Research Mobility Experience (IRME) 

The webinar will provide an overview of the CALAREO IRME Program, a brief
presentation about Queretaro, Mexico, and then presentations from some of the host
researchers in Mexico who are offering the internships!

• Dr. Martín Moreno Guzmán, UTSJR: 1. Exploring Innovative Control Approaches through Boost Converter Experimentation; 2. Comprehensive Parameter Estimation for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) Characterization
• Dr. Maria del Consuelo Patricia Torres Falcón, UPQ: Synthesis and characterization of bismuth-doped barium hexaferrite for its application in the automotive industry 
• Dr. Luis Alvaro Montoya Santiyanes, UPQ: Stress analysis in gear systems
• Dr. Rubén Velázquez Hernández, and Dra. Delia María Hurtado Castañeda, UTEQ: Photothermal techniques in the characterization of semiconductor and metallic materials for industry 4.0 applications
• José Alfredo Gaytán Díaz, UPSRJ: Design of Didactic Cubes for Teaching Computer Drawing

Graduate students on the Lakehead Orillia campus and Lakehead-Georgian Barrie campus are invited to share their thesis, research project, or other research findings during Research and Innovation Week.

The R&I Week Graduate Poster Competition was developed to showcase current graduate students’ contributions to research and scholarship at Lakehead University. The top poster will win a prize.

Registration Information
To be eligible for the competition, please complete the registration form by the end of the day Friday, Feb. 9.

About the Presentation

Our changing climate is creating challenges but also opportunities for food and fibre production systems. Soils are the foundation for these systems and provide numerous ecosystem services that contribute to our well-being and the well-being of our environment. Many of these services are linked to and controlled by soil organic matter stores, which holds the largest terrestrial pool of organic carbon on the Earth. How we manage that pool has significant implications for concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere but also how our ecosystems respond to stressors, like a changing climate. The critical role that soils play is often overlooked but has been a recent focus of the Canadian Government’s Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, who have an ongoing study on the state of soil health in Canada. Join me to explore my program’s ongoing work to improve land management outcomes for organic carbon stores and soil health, with a focus on northern soils.  

About the Speaker

Dr. Amanda Diochon is an associate professor in the Department of Geology and SES Faculty-Based Research Chair in Biogeochemical Cycling of C in Northern Soils. Her research program focuses on the effects of disturbances on the cycling of soil organic matter in forested and agricultural systems, and the impact of these disturbances on soil health. Amanda is the past-president of the Canadian Society of Soil Science and co-chair of the Soil Education Committee of the CSSS. She was also an editor on Digging Into Canadian Soils, the first open source Canadian soil textbook.

About the Event

This session will explore Indigenous land based methodologies as an evidence-based approach to planning, programming, policy making and advocacy for the health of Lands, Waters and Peoples and the roles and responsibilities of universities in regards to this work.

Speakers

Moderator: Lana Ray, PhD is an Anishinaabe scholar from Opwaaganasiniing (Red Rock Indian Band). She is a member of the Muskellunge Clan and an Associate Professor at Lakehead University and Lakehead University’s inaugural Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures.

Speaker: Tom Morriseau Borg is a knowledge keeper from Red Rock Indian Band. He possesses extensive knowledge about his Traditional territories as a trapper and general land-based practitioner. He is a member of Ontario certified Engineering Technicians and Technologist, and previously was the Environmental Monitoring for his First Nation. He has advised on archeological digs and hydro transmission line sites and he has represented Red Rock Indian Band on the Water Management Committee, the Lake Nipigon Advisory Committee and has been a member of Local Citizens Committee for Forestry planning and issues for over two decades among other things.

Speaker: Dr. Stéphane McLachlan, Professor, Clayton H Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources. Steph’s work with students and colleagues through the Environmental Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba focuses on environmental justice and health, traditional foods, environmental monitoring, and Indigenous data and research sovereignty. It is all partnership-based and bridges Indigenous science with the natural and social sciences. This Indigenous-led work documents and challenges the disproportionate impacts of hydropower, mining, and other intensive resource extraction on these communities. Yet, it is also solutions-oriented and advocacy-based. In amplifying local voices and concerns with decision-makers and the public, it acts to increase public awareness and facilitate political change regarding these issues.

Registration

To register for this event, please click here.

The Bryophyte workshop is a student-led annual gathering of nature enthusiasts, students, and faculty members interested in learning more about these amazing little plants called Bryophytes. It includes research presentations and practical exercises, and everyone is welcome to take part.

Bryophytes are a large group of simple plant forms that never flower and do not have a specialized vascular system like trees, grasses, or shrubs. Instead, they have simpler ways to transport nutrients and water in their tissues and reproduce either by spores or by fragmentation. Because they do not have tough “veins” in their bodies they cannot grow tall and instead they cover the ground in low-lying patches or more continuous layers. While their appearance may be humble and often we unwittingly step on them during our nature walks, these plants are true champions of nature, with an incredible ability to transform our environment and climate. For instance, Sphagnum mosses cover large swaths of land in Canada’s boreal and subarctic regions where they remove enormous quantities of carbon dioxide from the air – a powerful greenhouse gas.

In the broadest sense, Bryophytes comprise three categories of plants: True Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts each with their unique biological make-up.