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Broaden your mind with the Scholars' Hub @ Home Speaker Series

Do you enjoy hearing about the latest thought-provoking research? The Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series features discussions on a broad range of topics, with engaging lectures from some of York’s best minds. The Scholars’ Hub events are done in partnership with Vaughan Public Libraries, Markham Public Library, and Aurora Public Library. The Scholars' Hub @ Home series is brought to you by York Alumni Engagement. We invite students, alumni and all members of the community to join us. All sessions take place at 12 p.m. ET.

Latest Scholars' Hub

Mehdi Nourinejad, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Urban planning is becoming more data-driven, with interactive analytics enabling decision-makers to explore “what-if” scenarios and make faster, more informed choices. Interactive-OR.net applies Operations Research and Machine Learning to create user-friendly tools that support dynamic, model-driven decision-making without requiring technical expertise. This seminar highlights applications in emergency response, micromobility, road safety, construction scheduling and parking management.

Kael Reid, Assistant Professor, Children, Childhood and Youth Studies, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.

This presentation shares findings from a project that utilized collaborative songwriting—a participatory arts-based method, which focuses on supported storytelling and creative musical expression. Centering transgender young people as experts of their own lives and agentic creators of musical culture, this project invited them to name, re-story and document their identities and worlds through songwriting, recording and singing.