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Laurentian University - Université Laurentienne is enhancing campus accessibility with assistive listening and descriptive audio systems in five campus venues with the Royal Bank of Canada Barrier Buster Grant, presented by the Rick Hansen Foundation.
Users will be able to stream high quality audio directly to their own devices, which will remove barriers for individuals with both audio and visual impairments.

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Laurentian University to Enhance Campus Accessibility with Rick Hansen Foundation and Royal Bank of Canada Barrier Buster Grant | Laurentian University Laurentian University is proud to announce it has been awarded a $40,000 grant through the Royal Bank of Canada Barrier Buster Grants Program, presented by the Rick Hansen Foundation. This funding will support the installation of cutting-edge assistive listening and descriptive audio systems across....

CROSH had a visit today from Deputy Minister David Wai of the Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security. We enjoyed the opportunity to talk about our field-to-lab-to-field research model, and to show off our mobile research lab.

MCROSH is headed back to Sudbury after a successful trip to the Fire Management Headquarters in Wawa. Where will we go next? Stay tuned to find out.

The Wawa FireRangers are more than ready for this year's fire season!
The CROSH crew visited the Ontario Forest Fires Fire Management Headquarters in Wawa and had a chance to observe a mock fire training exercise! This experience will help us better serve our Ontario Wildland FireRangers through research in Occupational Safety and Health.

We had a great first day with the Wawa Wildland FireRangers! We're talking to the rangers here about respiratory and dermal hazards.

Road Trip! 🚍
CROSH is hitting the road. Our destination? The Wawa Fire Management Headquarters. We'll be launching some exciting new research there in partnership with Ontario Forest Fires. Stay tuned to learn all about it!

Monday, June 1st is Injured Workers Day.

Every year on June 1st, Ontarians pay respect to the workers who have died or been injured while working. This will be the second annual day of recognition since Sudbury MPP Jamie West NDP introduced the bill.

There will be a 2026 Injured Workers Day rally at Queen's Park at 11am on June 1st, alongside sister events in Thunder Bay, Hamilton, London, and Windsor.

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Injured Workers’ Day Annual rally around the province of the Ontario injured worker community, held every June 1st since 1984, to raise public awareness of concerns with the workers' compensation system.

Our summer students got the chance to meet with Dr. Mark Hebert and Dr. Emily Tetzlaff today to talk about sleep cycles, shift work, and the ways blue light can reduce fatigue. We also got the chance to give them a tour of our workplace simulator and our mobile research unit, MCROSH. Thanks for the visit!

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