{"id":20657,"date":"2024-09-11T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/news\/?p=20657"},"modified":"2024-10-17T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:48:26","slug":"from-york-to-yale-faculty-of-science-professor-named-fulbright-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/news\/2024\/09\/11\/from-york-to-yale-faculty-of-science-professor-named-fulbright-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"From York to Yale: Faculty of Science professor named Fulbright winner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A long-time York University professor will join the Ivy League this fall, having been awarded a prestigious visiting professorship at Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawn Bazely<\/a><\/strong>, a University Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, has been named this year\u2019s recipient of the 2024-25 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Visiting Professorship, the foundation\u2019s top Research Chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bazely has taught at York for more than 30 years and met the news of the win with shock and disbelief.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI initially thought it was fake or their email account was hacked,\u201d says the trained ecologist. \u201cBut once it was verified, I chalked it up to a career built on 99 per cent grind and persistence, and a decades-long personal policy of never resting on my laurels. I feel that this is evidence that I still have something to bring to the academic table.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Yale, Bazely will teach a course as wide-ranging as her expertise, called Canada\u2019s Approach to Selected Global Wicked Problems. <\/em>The course will cover world issues, including climate change, settler-colonialism, and public health \u2013 as seen through a Canadian lens.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The largely anticipated American group of students will also learn about Canadian politics, the country\u2019s relationship to the United Nations and its contributions to several intergovernmental panels, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), along with current topics particularly relevant north of the border, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission\u2019s Calls to Action and the Canadian mining sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Bazely, the opportunity to conduct research and teach at Yale is a platform to amplify as many voices and perspectives as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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