October 9, 2020
This blog post is part of a series on the happenings of Munk One students and alumni over the course of Summer 2020. Naomi Butterfield (’17) shares her experience working in fruit picking in the Okanagan Valley and Kootenays this summer.
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September 29, 2020
Munk One student Andrea Caceres (’19) recently attended the United Nations Youth Assembly as a delegate from Peru. She writes on this unique experience which took place remotely in July and August.
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September 28, 2020
As part of our Munk One summer series, Zaiboon Azhar (’20) writes about her experience as the Ontario provincial ambassador for a nation-wide virtual prom held for the class of 2020 and what it was like to be interviewed on CBC by Rosemary Barton.
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September 24, 2020
In late August, the Munk One program held its first-ever virtual “Dragons’ Den” competition and the first rendition of The Carey Projects, an initiative hosted in partnership by Audacious Futures and Munk One in honour of Munk One alumna Carey Davis.
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September 22, 2020
In March, the sudden closure of the University and the lockdown of Ontario threw many of us into a panic. I returned to live with my mom in Richmond Hill, packing only two weeks of clothing with m, as I thought it would all pass quickly. Alas, that was not to be, as the supposed two-week sojourn turned into half a year of staying at home.
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August 31, 2020
MUN101H1 Instructor, Joe Wong, was recently featured in UofT News about teaching in-person and online simultaneously. Much of his approach was informed by “practice seminars” with Munk One alumni over the summer.
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August 20, 2020
Abhay Sachal shares what he took away from the Munk One program and his first year at UofT.
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July 28, 2020
The COVID Comparative Project, led by Munk One Professor Joe Wong, is a set of 16 country case studies about global responses to the virus. Cases were compiled by UofT undergraduates, with many from the Munk One program.
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May 11, 2020
Professor Joseph Wong and Munk One students Anya Haldemann and Atharv Agrawal were interviewed by Times Higher Education on the international student experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 5, 2020
Abhay Sachal is a student of the 2019-2020 Munk One cohort and the founder of Break the Divide, a non-profit that seeks to connect youth across the world to foster empathy and understanding. In this blog post, he shares how he has...
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