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Esteemed friends and colleagues:
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In perhaps my last significant act as your chairperson, I reach out to you on this darkest of days in the proud 60-odd year history of this department. At the end of the business day on Friday, the department of physics (once the department of physics and astronomy), officially ceased to exist.
I symbolically turned off the lights and locked the doors on my way out of this incredible, quasi-fairy tale-type story. A story which among so many other accomplishments, played a significant role in the only Nobel Prize with which this university has ever been directly associated.
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A lot has changed since John Gunn arrived in Sudbury in the late 1970s.
The landscape at that time was “largely barren,” noted the director of the Living With Lakes Centre, leaving his young wife to ponder: “Are we really going to stay here?”
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The couple would indeed stick around, with Gunn studying the impacts of acid on lakes and helping to found the Freshwater Ecology Unit at Laurentian University in 1989.
Over his career, he would also witness, and document, a remarkable transformation.
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Northern Ontario’s economy would work best if it went around in circles.
At least that’s the theory behind the Northern Ontario Circular Economy Symposium, which the Northern Policy Institute (NPI) and DE Design and Environment Inc. hosted virtually earlier this month.
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The circular economy movement is one of the biggest ideas in sustainable thinking at the moment, according to an NPI release.
“Visualize an economy where we minimize waste and generate prosperity for future generations. Creating more self-sustaining communities, producing more jobs, becoming our own supply chain, and reaping the benefits regionally,” it said.