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The Hot Cities World Tour explores Egypt and Morocco

Since its inception in 2009, Â鶹AV's annual Hot Cities of the World Tour has taken undergraduates, graduates, alumni, and professors to the frontier of our increasingly globalized world. This year, the 13th iteration of the tour visited Egypt and Morocco – two of the largest and most important economies in Africa, and critical gateways to Europe and the Middle East.

Published: 12 Apr 2024

Desautels-developed AI app is helping monkeys avoid injury in Costa Rica

When endangered howler monkey populations cross Costa Rica’s roads, they are vulnerable to injury from electrical wires and passing cars. Associate Professor Juan Camilo Serpa, partnering with Reserva Conchal, is using artificial intelligence to help prevent these injuries from occurring.

Published: 20 Oct 2023

Artificial intelligence is helping Costa Rica NGOs preserve biodiversity

During a sabbatical year, Prof. Juan Camilo Serpa visited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Costa Rica, and found that while they were doing a lot of great work to help animals, they had little access to advanced technologies like data analytics and artificial intelligence.

Published: 10 Oct 2023

Â鶹AV Desautels Costa Rica study trip applies data analytics to sustainability projects

Â鶹AV students are working with Costa Rican non-governmental organizations to safeguard howler monkeys from road hazards. Through their research, they’ve created a "Mono-SOS" website for accident reporting in partnership with a local NGO, SalveMonos.

Published: 8 Sep 2023

Nabil Anouti is the Desautels valedictorian at Â鶹AV’s Spring 2023 Convocation

Humanity has the skill to solve our most pressing problems, but cooperation is our greatest challenge, says Nabil Anouti, who is Â鶹AV Desautels’ valedictorian for the Spring 2023 Convocation. But Anouti is optimistic, and this view has been shaped by a Desautels education.

Published: 25 May 2023

Â鶹AV Desautels undergrads take 2nd at Baylor University’s Negotiation Competition

Â鶹AV Desautels undergraduate students Aaron Anandji (BCom’25) and Zacharie Faucillion (BCom’23), Co-Executive Directors of Â鶹AV Ventures, took second place at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business’ National Undergraduate Negotiation Competition (NUNC) this April.

Published: 23 May 2023

Hot Cities of the World tour visits growing West African cities

Africa is at the heart of our world, but its diverse cultural and economic influence has often been overlooked. Yet the world has begun to take note, says Prof. Karl Moore, who led this year’s Hot Cities of the World Tour to Accra, Ghana and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Published: 2 May 2023

IMSF empowers students impact in community

The Integrated Management Student Fellowship (IMSF), offered by the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), is an experiential leadership development program that aims to bridge the gap between the classroom and the community.

Published: 27 Apr 2023

MMF Series: Where Are They Now? Spotlight on Mitchell McEwen (MMF’20)

Learn how the Â鶹AV Master of Management in Finance (MMF) can open a number of career doors. On this Earth Day, we catch up with an MMF alumnus working in ESG and Sustainable Finance, Mitchell McEwen (MMF’20). Now Senior Manager, Enterprise Sustainable Finance, TD Bank Group, he first joined the Bank as an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) intern.

Published: 21 Apr 2023

Experiential Learning: Â鶹AV Desautels gives rise to discovery

In 2021, thanks to the generosity of alumnus Don Lewtas, we saw the launch of the Lewtas Office of Experiential Learning. Since the office’s inception, the team at the Lewtas Office, led by Leigh Korey, PhD, has been hard at work creating powerful hands-on learning opportunities that play a vital role in the student journey.

Published: 21 Feb 2023

Master of Management Analytics students share analytics expertise with the community

In 2018, leukemia survivor Mai Duong founded Swab the World, a foundation that educates people about the lack of diversity among stem cell donors, the initiative is getting an assist from MMA Gives, a campaign that gives non-profits, SMEs and NGOs the opportunity to work with Master of Management in Analytics (MMA) students to help meet t

Published: 21 Nov 2022

Congrats to MMF team on Challenge win

Congratulations to Master of Management in Finance (MMF) Team 6 students Pascal Audette, Heng Chang, Fenton Garvie, Eugenia Pan and Alexandre Touchette on their win at the 5th

Published: 8 Nov 2022

The Photons take 2022 Desautels Cup case competition

Congratulations to Â鶹AV MBA students Shivansh Srivastava, Bingquan (Roger) Wu, Nimesh Mittal, Sundeep Ahuja, and Horacio Aguilera Salinas for winning the 2022 Desautels Cup Case Competition, the first in-person Desautels Cup since the pandemic!

Published: 28 Sep 2022

International Management Student Fellows present creative solutions to societal challenges

Bread and grain waste is a leading cause of food waste in Canada, and but this can be reduced by transforming spent brewing yeast and stale bread into flour that can be sold to businesses or directly to the consumers.

Published: 11 May 2022

Integrated Student Management Fellowships apply academic learning to real-world challenges

The Graphix Project is creating an intellectual history of human rights in graphic novel form – over 3,000 years of conflict and social movements. Third-year student Nada Al Mgharbel has been contributing research to the initiative, which is a collaboration between Â鶹AV and Yale University, and will be the centrepiece of a human-rights education program.

Published: 2 May 2022

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