Thomas H. B. Symons Series for Graduate Student Research
- Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Building: Scott House
Room: 105
The Thomas H. B. Symons seminar series continues with an exciting lineup of presenters. This series focuses on graduate student research and considers the intersections between science and humanities research. The evening features two graduate student researchers: Lisa Ditschun, PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Social Research and Hamant France, PhD candidate in Environmental and Life Sciences. Join us on Thursday, January 23 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm in Scott House 105, Traill College. Come for the free snacks and stay for the research!
Lisa will discuss Cities for Seven Generations. She holds a BA (Hons) from the University of British Columbia. Drawing on her knowledge of multidisciplinary subjects and systems thinking, her interdisciplinary work combines Indigenous and western knowledges within an Indigenist research paradigm and demonstrates a deep personal commitment to Indigenization and justice practices. Lisa's current research aims to create a new methodology - the Cities for Seven Generations Framework - to address the urban challenges of sustainability, resource usage, and inequality.
Hamant will discuss Environmental Remediation Applications of Tropical Hardwood waste. Hamant's research in the Vreugdenhil lab focuses on converting wood and shellfish waste materials to high surface area absorbents which are used in aquatic environmental remediation applications. He has successfully converted tropical hardwood sawdust and shrimp waste to hybrid absorbents and used these to remove toxic ions, such as lead and aluminum, and herbicides, such as 2,4-D, from water. Mr. France has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented his research at many international conferences in Canada and Asia.
It shall be an exciting evening of sharing and discussing.
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Jordan Etherington
Posted on January 16, 2025