Flynn first layperson to helm St. Joseph’s College April 16, 2021
The new boss at St. Joseph’s College in Edmonton happens to be the old boss but not that old.
Forty-one-year-old Shawn Flynn officially takes over as 19th president of St. Joe’s, and the first-ever layperson in the job, on July 1. But the Old Testament scholar has been the interim, acting president all through the COVID crisis. Since coming to the college in 2017 he’s been academic dean, academic vice president and dean, working on ways to connect the University of Alberta’s Catholic affiliate more closely with Catholic school boards and Catholic health care.
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Amid third wave, University of Toronto’s Homer Tien takes over province’s COVID-19 vaccine task force: CBC
Tien, who’s also a surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the president and CEO of Ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance agency, replaced retired Gen. Rick Hillier, whose contract expired at the end of March. Tien has been a member of the task force since its inception and was instrumental in executing Operation Remote Immunity, a mission to immunize remote and isolated Indigenous communities.
The province’s vaccination campaign continues to roll out amid supply challenges and a mounting third wave of COVID-19 infections – and Tien is no stranger to high-stress medical operations. In 1996, he was the first medical officer posted to the Canadian military’s counterterrorism team during the NATO mission in Bosnia. A decade later, he was deployed to a field hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he often treated the victims of roadside bomb bl
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Which is why I was glad to find neuroscientist Samantha Yammine, who has helped me understand everything COVID-related over the past year, while debunking the many myths out there. To her growing Instagram followers, she’s known as Science Sam, and she has used her platform to make science more accessible and easy to understand.
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A team of physicists have developed a way to mathematically describe the “quantumness” of different objects or systems – that is, the degree to which they behave in a quantum manner.
“Previously, researchers had measured quantumness in systems that involved light,” says lead author Aaron Goldberg, a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto’s department of physics in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
“But we can apply our generalized approach to any quantum system – systems involving light, atoms, molecules or even combinations of those things.”
So what, exactly, are researchers measuring?
The subatomic world described by quantum physics is very different from the world described by Newton’s classical laws of physics. In the familiar world of classical physics, we know the position and momentum of objects with enough precision to, for example, make a difficult shot in a game of billiards. We also know the ball won’t magica