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U of T students, faculty create resource to help Scarborough seniors book COVID-19 vaccines Students, faculty and staff at U of T Scarborough have created an online resource focused on vaccine eligibility and dates for at-risk community members in Scarborough (photo by Cole Burston via Getty Images)
A new project by students, faculty and staff at the University of Toronto Scarborough is making it easier for seniors to register for COVID-19 vaccine appointments.
The project’s participants, in the department of health and society (DHS), recently curated a list of resources about vaccine eligibility and dates for at-risk community members in Scarborough.
Beginner s Guide to America and 5 other works that illuminate the US immigrant experience
Written by Chantal Da Silva, CNN
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Imagine searching for traces of Americanness as an immigrant first arriving in the US, and four name tags seen in the airport stop you in your tracks.
This was true for author Roya Hakakian, who was 19 when her Persian Jewish family fled Iran in the 1980s. In her new book Beginner s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Misinformed, Hakakian paints a picture of what it s like to leave everything you know behind and try to build a life in the US including those earliest moments in airport customs, when she was almost too taken aback by what the agents were wearing to notice their scrutinizing questions.
Remembering Saadia Khan
April 13, 2021
For many years I have been waiting to write on Saadia Khan, the most brilliant student of our MBA class at NUST. It was the 1st MBA class at newly established Business School and the classes were run in the evening. This was to enable those students who had jobs and worked during the daytime to join classes in the evening. Saadia was working in Islamabad at United Nation Information Centre (UNIC), she would straight come to Rawalpindi where NUST Campus was located during those days. She was never late nor looked fatigued from 9-5 work hours at her office which she had joined on completion of studies at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute. She possessed amazing energy, exceptional determination and always appeared calm and composed in the class. Personally I was greatly impressed the way she carried herself with incredible grace and extra-ordinary calm. In group assignments her contribution and inputs were always more than anyone but she would give t