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The Lang School of Business and Economics has partnered with Ten Thousand Coffees and RBC Future Launch to launch Lang First Year Student Connect, an exclusive online program that helps connect first-year Lang Commerce students together based on common interests.
Two Lang professors have been awarded nearly $48,000 in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The funding comes through the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants and their COVID-19 special initiative competition.
The University of Guelph recently announced the 2020 recipients for the President’s and Chancellor’s Scholarships, the University’s top entrance awards for incoming undergraduate students.
Among the recipients are two incoming Lang commerce students, Grace Wylie (Management, Co-op) and Daniel Neiterman (Accounting, Co-op).
The International Air Transport Association, known as the IATA — the body representing the air transport industry — expects global air passenger traffic to fall 55 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019, and global passenger traffic not to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024.