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Tina Chan, Public Health and Health Systems MSc candidate, appeared on CBC The National on September 6th, speaking about school-related stress and mental health struggles. Chan is the creator of the Panic Anxiety & Stress Support kit (PASS kit), designed to assist students in managing stress and destigmatize stress-related mental illnesses.

Dr. Lennart Nacke, Associate Professor and Director of the HCI Games Group, alongside the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, is co-organizing the Fluxible Education Summit (click here for more information on the summit).

Dr. Michael Barnett-Cowan, Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Multisensory Brain and Cognition lab, discussed the progression of virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) technology and their real world application in an article in the Globe and Mail.

Chris Lawrence, PhD candidate in English and Editor-in-Chief at First Person Scholar, published an article in Unwinnable about Mortal Kombat characters Scorpion and Sub-Zero. In the article, "Scorpion and Sub-Zero Should Make it Official", Lawrence does a queer reading of the characters' relationship throughout the Mortal Kombat (MK) franchise.

The Games Institute is thrilled to welcome a new faculty member to our community, Dr. Aynur Kadir. Dr. Kadir is an incoming Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts in the department of Communication Arts with plans to advance her research in mobilizing the knowledge and cultures of Indigenous heritages through interactive and immersive technologies.

GI faculty member, Dr. Ashley Mehlenbacher, was recently published in “Waterloo Stories”, an online publication run by the Faculty of Arts. Dr. Mehlenbacher spoke about the growth of citizen science linked to the rise of the internet.

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GI faculty members Drs. Kristina Llewellyn and Jim Wallace have been selected to be amongst the 10 HeForShe faculty advocates for 2019-2020.

Games Institute member Jason Lajoie, English PhD student and researcher at the Critical Media Lab, co-hosted the Tech for Good Ethos Studio with Dr. Marcel O'Gorman, director of the Critical Media Lab, at True North, 2019.

Dr. Neil Randall, GI Executive Director and Chair of the Ethics, Technology and Social Impact (ETSI) Council, is a panelist for the upcoming event "Wo(man) and machine - who makes the decisions and why?". Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) is running this panel event to bring together perspectives on ethics and artificial intelligence.