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WHITEHORSE—Out of 15 submitted ideas from 15 contest participants, Annabelle Grant has been named the winner of the Yukon CubeSat idea contest.  

Grant’s name was pulled from a hat last week. Her idea for the micro-satellite payload is to have it track solid waste in oceans through photographs from low earth orbit. 

WHITEHORSE—Yukon College has named Davida Wood as the new director of First Nations Initiatives (FNI). Wood previously held the position of manager within FNI since 2014.  

WHITEHORSE--Climate change affects the North more than any other part of Canada and threatens the efficiency, safety and reliability of northern transportation. Making our northern transportation system more resilient to the effects of climate is important given the key role transportation plays in the region’s social and economic development.

That is why the Government of Canada and the Government of Yukon are investing in two important climate change adaptation research projects under the Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative.

WHITEHORSE—The Yukon CubeSat project at Yukon College wants to hear Yukoners’ ideas on what the satellite should do during its planned orbit of the planet in 2020. 

WHITEHORSE—Yukon College has promoted Tosh Southwick from executive director of First Nations Initiatives and Community, Innovation and Development to the newly-created position of associate vice president Indigenous Engagement and Reconciliation. 

WHITEHORSE—Dr. Janet Welch has joined Yukon College as vice president Academic and Student Services.  

Dr. Welch was most recently associate vice president Academic at Lethbridge College and was previously an assistant dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. 

WHITEHORSE—Yukon College has adopted a new sexualized violence prevention and response policy.

WHITEHORSE—23-year-old Abdullah Alaboud (or “Abed” as he prefers to be known) is settling into campus life and learning to cope with the cooler temperature of his new home.