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UNB Fredericton to host 2020 Home Hardware Canada Cup
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Dec 11, 2019
Category: myUNB , UNB Fredericton
The Aitken University Centre on the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus will be the location of the 2020 Home Hardware Canada Cup, one of curling’s biggest events, from Nov. 25 – 29, 2020. This marks the first time the Canada Cup will be played in Atlantic Canada. The announcement was made on Dec. 11 at the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton by New Brunswick...
Read the full postUNB’s Greg Marquis to launch third edition of Truth and Honour
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Dec 9, 2019
Category: myUNB , UNB Saint John
On Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., UNB professor of history and politics and author Dr. Greg Marquis will launch the third edition of his book, Truth and Honour, at the Saint John Free Public Library, 1 Market Square, Saint John. This updated and expanded edition details the high-profile 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland and the trial of his son Dennis Oland. The new...
Read the full postInvesting and supporting the future of New Brunswick
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Dec 9, 2019
Category: myUNB , UNB Saint John , UNB Fredericton
The following commentary appeared in the Dec. 7, 2019, edition of the Daily Gleaner under the headline “Our universities: a force for good” In our roles as university presidents of the only publicly funded universities in the province, we are accustomed to being challenged with hard questions. This is as it should be, and we’re justifiably proud of the accomplishments made by...
Read the full postUNB remembers victims of the Montreal Massacre 30 years later
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Dec 6, 2019
Category: UNB Fredericton , myUNB , UNB Saint John
The University of New Brunswick is hosting two memorial events in Fredericton and Saint John to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, and to remember the women killed during the Montreal Massacre 30 years ago on Dec. 6, 1989. Many of the young women whose lives were taken were engineering students. “Thirty years after the massacre at École...
Read the full postUNB student attends North America’s largest innovation hub
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Dec 5, 2019
Category: UNB Fredericton , myUNB
A fourth-year bachelor of business administration student from the University of New Brunswick recently attended the 12th Annual MaRS Social Finance Forum, Canada’s leading conference on impact investing and social enterprise. Sydney Rankin is completing an independent study at UNB and concentrating her coursework in entrepreneurship and minoring in chemistry. Last year, she served as...
Read the full postUNB researchers release preliminary results of fall prevention program
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Dec 3, 2019
Category: UNB Fredericton , myUNB
Preliminary results from a fall prevention program for people age 50 and up show participants had increased benefits associated with a decreased risk of falls. Drs. Danielle Bouchard and Martin Sénéchal, co-directors of the University of New Brunswick’s Cardiometabolic Exercise & Lifestyle Laboratory (CELLab), presented preliminary research results for Zoomers on the Go, a...
Read the full postUNB’s Julia McDevitt named professional of the year at North American conference
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Nov 29, 2019
Category: UNB Fredericton , myUNB
The University of New Brunswick congratulates Julia McDevitt, senior director in the conferences services department at UNB Fredericton, who was named professional of the year at the 2019 Unique Venues Annual Member Conference in Dallas, TX. This is the first time this award has been bestowed to a professional from a Canadian university and only the second time it has been awarded to a...
Read the full postUNB researcher draws link between air pollution and increased mortality rates in Canadians
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Nov 26, 2019
Category: UNB Fredericton , myUNB
A UNB researcher played a leading role in the largest and most comprehensive Canadian study examining links between air pollution and risk of mortality ever conducted. The study, published in Health Effects Institute report, reveals that even at the very low levels of pollution seen across most of Canada, including the Maritimes, exposure produces small but significant increased risks of...
Read the full postUNB ranked among Canada’s top 50 research universities
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Nov 25, 2019
Category: myUNB , UNB Fredericton , UNB Saint John
The University of New Brunswick has been named one of Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities in a list released by Research Infosource Inc. UNB was ranked in 28th place overall and was the highest ranked university in New Brunswick. UNB also placed 5th in the comprehensive grouping of universities in both faculty research intensity and graduate student research intensity, based on the...
Read the full postMulti-talented Lesley Crewe to read as part of Lorenzo Reading Series
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Nov 25, 2019
Category: myUNB , UNB Saint John
Lesley Crewe will read from Are You Kidding Me? on Sunday, Dec. 1, with special guest Port City 5, as part of the UNB Saint John Lorenzo Reading Series. For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest newspaper columns are collected in one place. The book spans 20 years of columns for The Cape Bretoner Magazine, Cahoots Magazine, and The Chronicle...
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