UNB has impressive global footprint in magnetic resonance research
Kyle
Posted: September 9, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Focus , Student Stories
The International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy held it’s 15th Biannual conference in Paris, France over the summer months. The conference brought together a group of 180 international experts focused on the development of spatially resolved magnetic resonance methods and their applications to diverse fields including engineering, biomedical and clinical science. UNB was exceptionally visible at the conference, accounting for fully 10% of all attendees, and they included...
UNBSJ Lab Discovery Making Headlines
Kyle
Posted: December 3, 2018 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty Focus , Student Stories
Graduate students in the UNB Saint John Biology Department are part of a team making waves with a recent discovery surrounding the population of a long lost species of fish in the St. John River, thought to have been lost forever. Team members in the Dr. Scott Pavey lab on the UNB Saint John campus, have recently made a discovery that suggests the native striped bass population in the St. John River likely managed to survive after seeing a drastic decline in numbers with the opening of the...
Meet SGS - Jackie Seely
Kyle
Posted: July 23, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Focus
Our next installment of our 'Meet SGS' series involves a long-time member of the Grad School, Jackie Seely. Jackie has a long standing career at UNB and has held many administrative positions, starting at Enterprise New Brunswick in 1988 and then the Dean of Arts Office 1992, until she settled at the Graduate School as an Admissions Officer in 1998. Jackie was later promoted in 2001 to position of Administrative Coordinator and Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies. She attended the...
New and Familiar Faces
Kyle
Posted: July 3, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: News and Events , Faculty Focus
Change is the theme of the month as we melt into the month of July after a long and hot Canada day weekend! July marks the beginning of new directions, however different they may be, for two long-time members of the Grad School team in Dr. Bruce MacDonald and Dr. John Kershaw. Bruce will be hanging up his whiteboard markers and erasers to join the list of retired Faculty members from the University of New Brunswick's Saint John campus and John will be transitioning into an exciting new role...
How UNB Research is Saving Lives
Kyle
Posted: June 5, 2018 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Stories , Faculty Focus
A UNB Postdoc is making waves with her research that is helping to save lives around the world. Shabnam Jabari, a Postdoc working with the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering on the Fredericton campus, has developed an Algorithm that creates a more accurate before-and-after picture to aid in recovery after a disaster. Inspired by the horrific scenes after an earthquake that hit Bam during her time at the University of Tehran, Shabnam decided that she needed to change the...
Joining Together: A Quest to Grow Health Research
Kyle
Posted: May 28, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: News and Events , Faculty Focus
If you live in the Saint John area, or visit the city often, you might have recently noticed the emergence of monthly gatherings of a diverse group of people, with a common goal. Quest-SJ, a group made up of researchers, academics, healthcare professionals, students and other stakeholders, is an interdisciplinary group who meets monthly to work towards the common goal of building capacity and collaboration in qualitative research in the broader context of healthcare. Group members from a...
Bright Connection
Kyle
Posted: April 23, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Focus
UNB professor, Dr. Tony Diamond, has made a brilliant discovery together with a colleague in England, Dr. Jamie Dunning. They've discovered that the brilliantly colored beaks of Atlantic Puffins also light-up -- like a glow stick! -- when exposed to ultra-violet (UV) light. Dr. Dunning stumbled on this recently one day in his lab, when he simply doused the lights and shone a light on a specimen of a puffin -- the bird's beak flouresced brilliantly (see photo below taken by Dr. Diamond). As...
UNB Connection Recognized at NBIF R3 Gala
Kyle
Posted: April 16, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Focus
The City of Fredericton attracted a few more visitors recently as NBIF hosted the 2018 rendition of the R3 Innovations in Aging Conference at the recently built Fredericton Convention Center. The biennial conference was created in recognition of excellence in New Brunswick Research and to promote awareness of the exceptional work undertaken by our New Brunswick research institutions and local community researchers. Many current and former UNB faculty members played key...
Meet Our Staff - Kyle!
Drew
Posted: March 26, 2018 6:10:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Focus
If you don't know Kyle yet (where have you been?!), then this is your chance to meet him. Kyle Hampsey is the Student Services Officer in the Grad School. Kyle joined the SGS team in spring of 2016 and has been focused on graduate student funding, communications and project development for the graduate community -- e.g., the 3MT! Kyle's arrival in the SGS required only a short walk across the street from Financial Services where he was previously. When not working in the SGS,...
IDST Gatherings... A Tuesday Tradition!
Kyle
Posted: February 12, 2018 6:00:00 AM AST
Category: Student Stories , Faculty Focus
Relax, share, and learn! IDST Gatherings, Tuesdays @ 4:00PM The HIL has been a little cozier on Tuesdays this term, with IDST students taking over the Milham Roon in the Library to mingle and discuss their research! The Gatherings are for all IDST, MAHSR, and MPhil students. The Tuesday tradition kicked off with talks by Ioanna Ratsiatou, Julie Bull and Milad Pirayegar, PHD students within the Interdisciplinary program, and will continue on Tuesdays throughout the term. Interested in...
New Graduate Program in Quantitative Investment
Kyle
Posted: January 29, 2018 6:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty Focus , News and Events
The University of New Brunswick has recently announced a new Masters program: the Master in Quantitative Investment Management (MQIM) degree is a unique, one-year graduate program that will prepare students for a specialized career in quantitative investment management at the heart of the modern financial sector.The program equips graduates with the fundamentals of finance knowledge combined with analytic programming skills, as well as professional development competencies demanded by the Bay...
Meet our Graduate Recruiter!
Kyle
Posted: January 22, 2018 5:01:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty Focus
Laura Gilks is a former UNB graduate student turned graduate recruitor! She began her recent journey in the UNB recruitment team in the fall of 2007 after winning the position with an interview presentation based on the metaphor linking graduate recruitment to fly fishing, something else she is passionate about! As a graduate recruiter, Laura spends considerable time on the road, meeting potential graduate students from coast to coast. When back on campus, she is busy helping graduate...
Psychology Professor Helps Canada Focus on Gold!
Kyle
Posted: January 15, 2018 6:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty Focus
A UNB Professor recently spent the Holidays with a different family of sorts, namely Canada's 2017 World Junior Hockey team, where he helped guide the group to their Gold medal performance! Dr. Ryan Hamilton, a Faculty member in the Department of Psychology on the Fredericton Campus, travelled to Buffalo with the rest of team Canada's support staff as Hockey Canada's first full-time mental-health coach and worked with the Canada's World Junior team from start-to-finish, which...
Happy Holidays from SGS!
Kyle
Posted: December 18, 2017 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty Focus
The School of Graduate Studies would like to extend our sincerest well wishes to you and your families over the upcoming Holiday Season. It has been a great 2017, full of inspiring graduate student success stories and exciting new changes around our graduate community including the addition of new and friendly faces to the team at the Grad School, to hosting UNB's first rendition of the Three Minute Thesis competition in the early spring along with the the Eastern Regional 3MT, and even the...
MTME Welcomes New Professor
Kyle
Posted: November 27, 2017 5:59:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events , Faculty Focus
One of ourfastest growing graduate programs, Technology Management Entrepreneurship, has attracted a preeminent scholar as a new Adjunct Professor at UNB. Dr. Jonathon Calof, from the University of Ottawa is an expert in competitive intelligence, technical foresight and business analytics. Dr. Calof has authored more 150 publications, and delivered over 1000 seminars, keynote addresses, and offers his extensive experience and expertise to companies, government organizations and...
Farewell and Welcome!
Kyle
Posted: November 20, 2017 6:58:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events , Faculty Focus
We recently paid farewell to Mrs. Janet Amirault (at right below with Dr. George MacLean, Vice-President Academic). Janet served for many years as Graduate Program Officer in the SGS and as Graduate Secretary to the Interdisciplinary Studies and Applied Health Services Research programs. Janet was treasured by the countless students she supported and by the Faculty and Staff alike … as well as by her friends in the SGS! Fortunately, Janet’s retirement is only partial, as she...