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Toronto's hot housing market has more young adults living at home with their parents. Geography and Environmental Management professor Nancy Worth spoke with The New York Times on the trend that shows 56.5 percent of people in their 20s (PDF) in the Toronto area still live with their parents, compared with 42 percent nationwide. Professor Worth said, despite negative stereotypes of lazy millennials free-loading in their parents' basements, many of these educated young professionals are actually making smart, strategic choices.

Susan J. Elliott, Professor of Geography, has been appointed to the Federal Food Expert Advisory Committee (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/consult/frac-ccra/index-eng.php).  The Food Expert Advisory Committee (FEAC) was established to provide Health Canada's Food Directorate (FD) with broad expert advice on its regulatory and administrative oversight of foods.

Five undergraduate and three graduate students recently attended the annual Canadian Risks and Hazards network (CRHnet) symposium on 22-25 November in Montreal. Students presented results from research carried out as part of the “Indonesia field course” (Geog 430C/692) run by Dr. Brent Doberstein in May 2016. 

GEM Distinguished Professor Emeritus honoured with UNWTO’s prestigious Ulysses Prize. Read the full story on the Faculty of Environment website.

More than 200 geographers and interdisciplinary scholars converged at the University of Waterloo this past weekend for the 2016 Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (CAGONT) Annual Meeting.

This year’s event breaks records as the largest CAGONT conference in the history of the organization, with participants from 19 universities.

Morgan Book, who graduated as part of the very first Master of Climate Change cohort in 2014, has been named one of Canada's Top 30 under 30 by Corporate Knights magazine. Morgan heads up the Youth Conservation Corps of Nova Scotia's Clean Foundation. Read more about Morgan and the rest of the 30 Under 30 here: http://www.corporateknights.com/reports/2016-30-under-30/meet-canadian-top-30-30-2-14763312/.

We did it again! Geography at the University of Waterloo improved on its global ranking in 2016 from 48 to 45, which was up from sitting in the top 51-100 by UK firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). This year the program jumps to 45.

Assistant Professor Dr. Derek T. Robinson was recently awarded an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science.

Join us in Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo on October 28 (field trips and grad student reception) and October 29 (exciting plenary and concurrent sessions presenting cutting edge research) for the 2016 Canadian Association of Geographers of Ontario Conference (CAGONT)!