Inaugural Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society, Winter/Spring 2015, ISSP, University of Ottawa.
Current President of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.
On 9 October 2018, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, of the Office of the United Nations (UN) Commissioner on Human Rights will hold a general discussion on article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva. This blog is adapted from a submission to this meeting.
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, ISSP Principal, Paulicyworks
The federal Science Minister has launched a nation-wide consultation to adapt a made in Canada Athena SWAN initiative, the internationally recognized venture that celebrates higher education institutions that have implemented practices to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in the sciences, especially in addressing gender equality.
Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society, Winter/Spring 2015, ISSP, University of Ottawa. Current President of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. Sigma Xi was the first scientific organization to support the March.
The March for Science represented a new phenomenon in science, the rise of a mass demonstration of scientists with a broad agenda in support of the scientific enterprise as a whole rather than a particular issue. On 22 April 2017, over 100,000 scientists, engineers, students, and people concerned for the scientific enterprise marched in mass demonstrations numbering in support of science in major cities and more than a few small towns and even remote research stations. Inspired by the Women’s March and organized in only five months by a small group of scientists, most of whom were post-doctorate fellows.
Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society for 2018, ISSP, University of Ottawa; Distinguished Professor and co-Director, School of Public and International Affairs & Genetic Engineering and Society Center, North Carolina University
I had the pleasure of attending the Canada SynBio 2018 Conference “Engineering Biology for Health, in Toronto last week (http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/2018syntheticbiologyconference/). While I’ve been to many such events in the United States, this was my first formal introduction to the Canadian innovation context for emerging biotechnologies. The event was designed to build Canada’s synthetic biology community through networking, discussion, and planning. Synthetic biology is most simply defined as “engineering biology to make useful things.”
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, ISSP Principal, Paulicyworks
Some years ago (25 to be more precise), with a government Chief Scientist, I had the privilege of being invited to participate in a unique meeting in Acapulco of science and technology advisory bodies to heads of government in the Americas organized by the Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias (CCC). It was the second gathering of the group first initiated in Ixtapa in November 1991 where the objective was to have S&T perspectives and advice better integrated with foreign affairs and engage globally oriented scientists to provide a unique source of advice to heads of government on integration of science related public policy issues.
The Ottawa Business Journal article, discussing the Faculty Affiliate of the ISSP and uOttawa Professor Andrew Pelling's lab, where students experiment in "biohacking".
This month, we continue our Covid19 special blog posts and we are featuring the ISSP collaboration with other uOttawa institutes on two future research projects.
Pandemics are far from new in the history of science fiction. Which is why familiar novels such as The Stand (1978) by Stephen King and movies such as Contagion (2011) by Steven Soderbergh were sought as references when lockdowns began.
