Planning Program Calendar

Dear Graduate Students,

You are invited to attend the first of four job talks forthe UTSG academic search for an Assistant Professor in the area ofEnvironmental Planning.

Danielle Rivera’s job talk will be held on Thursday, February18 at 3pm until 5pm. Please refer to the attached job talk poster forfurther details.

Job talk zoom webinar link: https://zoom.us/j/92860389488?pwd=RUIrcmRqdU4zOE9jRW80UUpPY0dKZz09

Password: 195983

For graduate students who would like to talk with DanielleRivera during the scheduled graduate student session (see attached itineraryfor zoom details), please kindly let me know.

Please note that the details of the remaining threeshort-listed candidates will be circulated in due course.

Short-listed Candidate JobTalks for Assistant Professor in the area of Environmental Planning

Zoe Hamstead on Friday, February 26

NidhiSubramanyam on Friday, March 5

Fushcia-Ann Hoover on Friday, March 12

The real star of the show will be Great Canadian Baking Showfinalist (and Arts & Science alum) Colin Asuncion. Colin willbe teaching a Muffin Masterclass where he will lead us step-by-step through theprocess of making two delicious recipes: chocolate chip-pecan muffins &mixed berry muffins (DF). Not only will this be an opportunity to come togetheras a community and do something for your wellbeing, you’ll also end up withsome yummy treats too!  

More information and registration available at https://uoft.me/bake-along

Hello All,

The Professional Development Committee recommends this upcomingtalk to graduate students to help improve scientific communication skills. Thetalk next week (Wed, Feb. 24, 4-5 PM) by Dr. ScottSt. George is part of Geography's Intersections Seminar Series. Thetitle of the talk is "Boosting the signal in scientific talks: A fewmodest adjustments to the planning and delivery of talks can help scientistsshare ideas with their peers more effectively". It is aimed at our graduate students in physical and humangeography as well as planning. Dr. St.George is an accomplished researcher and science communicator. Heinstructs a graduate course (The Art of Scientific Presentations) in theDepartment of Geography at the University of Minnesota, which is popular withstudents across the social and physical sciences, and in engineering. Further,he recently published an article in Nature(Careers column) on this very topic, see HERE.  

The zoom link and talk details are here: https://geography.utoronto.ca/event/intersections-seminar-series-boosting-the-signal-in-scientific-talks/ 

Dear Geography & Planning Graduate Students: 

This week’s Intersections Seminar Series is a professionaldevelopment-style talk by Dr. Scott St. George (University of Minnesota) onthe effective design and delivery of research presentations (e.g., conferencetalks). I expect it will be of broad interest to all of our graduate studentsin Geography and Planning.  

Title of the talk: Boosting the signal in scientifictalks: A few modest adjustments to the planning and delivery of talks can helpscientists share ideas with their peers more effectively.  

Date and time:Wednesday, February 24 at 4:00-5:00 PM 

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92576445246 

Dr. St. George is well known for hisresearch in the climate science community, but more generally he is regardedfor his strengths as an effective science communicator. He instructs a graduatecourse (The Art of Scientific Presentations) in the Department of Geography,Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, which is popular withstudents across the social and physical sciences, and in engineering. Further,he recently summarised several key lessons in this article in Nature (Careers column), see HERE.  

All U of T faculty and students are welcome to attend. Ilook forward to seeing you on Wednesday. 

Best regards, 

Trevor Porter 

Hello MScPl students,

 I hope you are enjoying reading week and having a goodrest!

In light of COVID and the inability to have in-person eventswhere casual conversations can take place, PAC was looking at how we could bestsupport current MScPl students. After speaking with Kayla and Brooke whosurveyed students, it was decided that PAC would host an informalvirtual get together with MScPl students and graduates on Thursday, February 25from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 

The event will be similar in format to the mentorship eventlaunch that we hosted in November and will feature small breakout rooms forconversation and questions, and also some trivia with the entire group. This isa great opportunity to interact with your mentor/graduates, ask questions aboutfinding work/ summer internships/ CIP/ whatever, a nice break from the monotonyof coursework and speaking from personal experience this type of event isactually quite enjoyable. 

We would love to see you and if you could pleaseconfirm your attendance by emailing RSVP@UofTPAC.ca thatwould be great! Information about joining the event will be distributed priorto the event. Until the 25th, I hope that you stay safe and healthy.

Take care,

Arno

JohnKemp, UofT Planning Alumni Committee Chair | 416.464.7653

Arno van Dijk, UofT Planning Alumni CommitteeVice-Chair | 613.293.6618

The Kumospace virtual rooms have been updated to thefollowing:

COVID-19 Recovery & Resiliency

1. Transit-Oriented Development
2. Housing Affordability
3. The Right to the City

COFFEEHOUR LOGIN IN INFORMATION:

• When you click the link www.kumospace.com/geoplanuoft it will ask you to sign in: If you have a google/gmail account you can use that, or create a new account with your utoronto/personal email. 

For the best experience, use Google Chrome as your browser, and a laptop or computer (rather than tablet or phone).
Four virtual rooms have been created for February 26 Coffee Hour 
example:
room 1: Urban Design, Planning & Development; 
room 2: Environmental & Social Planning;
room 3: Economic Development Planning 
room 4: Transportation Planning & Infrastructure.