Author: Andrew Munroe
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The Vaccine Race: An Astonishing History and a Challenging Present
Before joining Science Magazine in 2016, Dr. Wadman was a freelance reporter covering biomedical research — including gene therapy, Alzheimer disease and autism — for Nature, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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How Literature Can Promote Intercultural Understanding: Marginalized Voices Speak Back
Dr. Khan is a prolific author and community activist. Her first crime novel, The Unquiet Dead (2015), won a Barry Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
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Putting Police On Trial
What happens when police are charged with breaking the law?
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GRP pilot program brings global students together
The GRC is launching a pilot program, which will bring students around the world together to produce major works of journalism.
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International Justice in the Age of Populism: A Talk with Dr. Payam Akhavan
At this talk, hosted by the Global Reporting Centre, Dr. Akhavan discusses the challenge the rise of populism poses to the international justice system. The United Nations and International Criminal Court are increasingly viewed as elitist and a threat to national sovereignty. Are these concerns legitimate? How can they be addressed?
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This American Life Host Ira Glass Holds Master Class for Global Reporting Centre
Ira Glass, the voice and journalist behind  This American Life, held a private master class with staff, fellows and friends of the Global Reporting Centre.
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Town Hall on Rare Diseases: Developing a Canadian Strategy for Rare Disease Treatments
Town Hall on Rare Diseases brings together a diverse panel of speakers to discuss the challenges of providing costly drugs for Canadians suffering from rare diseases. The public town hall, hosted by Paul Kennedy of CBC Ideas, will take place on October 23rd, 2018, at the BMO Theatre in Vancouver’s Olympic Village at 6:30 p.m.…
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Niranjan Takle: Journalist on the Fascist Trail
Investigative journalist Niranjan Takle will be in Vancouver to discuss his seminal investigation of the murder of a judge, which highlighted corruption and the country’s political decline.
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Climate Change and Problem Solving Amongst Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers: A case study from Lake Baikal
Speaker: Professor Andrzej Weber, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta Dr. Weber is the director of the Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project, an international multidisciplinary team of scholars focusing on the bio-archaeology of individual life histories to understand hunter-gatherer cultural, biological and ecological interactions, as well as evolutionary trajectories in Northeast Asia. His research interests include archaeology of…
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The Art of the Cello: Recital and lecture
Dr. Santa J. Ono is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. Dr. Ono, an avid cello player, studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Dr. Ono will be accompanied this evening by Mr. Oskar Falta on the cello and Ms. Emily Logan on the piano.