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Celebrating Black History Month at UNB
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 30, 2020 8:40:00 AM AST
Category: UNB Saint John, UNB Fredericton
Feb. 1 will mark the beginning of a monthlong celebration of Black Canadians past and present. During this time, our community reflects upon the stories, contributions and influence that Black Canadians have made on our history, culture and academic institutions. Throughout the year, we stand beside Black New Brunswickers and Black students at UNB who continue to fight for equality and...
Read the full postA fourth-year UNB student speaks out in support of Bell Let’s Talk Day
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 28, 2020 9:50:00 AM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
Cormac Stewart is working on finding balance. The fourth-year student at UNB Fredericton has a busy schedule filled with clubs, classes and friends, but he always takes time to check in with his emotions. Mr. Stewart is co-president of the UNB Mental Health Association. Together with his co-president Kate Metcalf, they lead students in discussion regarding mental health issues and raise...
Read the full postResearch shows practice makes perfect for NB surgeons
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 24, 2020 1:30:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
NB-IRDT researchers studied years of data about mortality and short-term complications from three common surgical procedures in New Brunswick. When it comes to minimizing the odds of complications from surgery, New Brunswickers should choose providers who actively and regularly perform a large number of similar surgeries,...
Read the full postCelebrating campus and community coming together
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 23, 2020 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Saint John
This morning the community celebrated the relocation of the University of New Brunswick Saint John’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program to its new Uptown location. The move to UNB’s Grand Hall, the former Scotiabank building in the heart of the city’s business and social core, will augment the MBA program and enhance the student experience through greater...
Read the full postLaw expert talks cryptocurrency regulation at UNB’s annual Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 21, 2020 2:30:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
On Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick will welcome Dr. Allan C. Hutchinson, professor of law at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. Dr. Hutchinson will present his talk, The New Crypto World: Governance on The Margins for the forty-first installment of the Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture. “Cryptocurrency is sufficiently...
Read the full postThird woman in history to receive the Nobel Prize in physics to deliver Priestman Lecture at UNB
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 16, 2020 3:55:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will host Canadian Nobel laureate Dr. Donna Strickland on Thursday, Jan. 30, for the annual Bryan Priestman Memorial Lecture. In her talk, titled “Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses,” Dr. Strickland will discuss her award-winning research involving the development of chirped pulsed amplification (CPA). This...
Read the full postUNB alumna achieves highest score in Atlantic Canada on accountancy exam
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 16, 2020 10:00:00 AM AST
Category: UNB Saint John
UNB alumna Tiffany Lowe has received top honours in the Chartered Professional Accountants Common Final Examination. Ms. Lowe has been named the 2019 Atlantic’s Honour Roll Gold Medal recipient for obtaining the highest score in Atlantic Canada on the exam. Ms. Lowe graduated with distinction from UNB’s BBA accounting co-op program in May 2017. The co-op program offers students the...
Read the full postElection interference is focus of UNB’s next cyber lecture
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 15, 2020 3:00:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
The University of New Brunswick Fredericton will host a public lecture focused on election interference presented by Dr. David Thaw, professor at the University of Pittsburgh, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Dr. Thaw is also founding director of the CyREN Laboratory and an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity, blockchain and related law and technology issues. This lecture, which is...
Read the full postUNB named one of Atlantic Canada’s Top Employers for eighth year
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 14, 2020 1:55:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
For the eighth consecutive year, the University of New Brunswick has been named one of Atlantic Canada’s Top Employers in 2020. The list, published by Atlantic Business Magazine, recognizes the employers in the Atlantic region that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. The evaluation takes into account performance management, training and skills development,...
Read the full postUNB’s Summer Institute seeking applications for 12-week paid accelerator program
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 14, 2020 9:30:00 AM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship (TME) is seeking early stage companies with innovative ideas that are interested in participating in the Summer Institute’s 2020 cohort. The Summer Institute, a 12-week interdisciplinary accelerator program that was developed in 2014, accepts five to seven companies each year....
Read the full postStudy shows New Brunswick library usage increasing
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 9, 2020 2:00:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
New Brunswickers still love the province’s traditional libraries despite rapid technological and social change over the past decade, according to research from the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training (NB-IRDT) at the University of New Brunswick. NB-IRDT researchers looked at numbers of active library cards and how many items (both physical and electronic) were...
Read the full postUNB researcher helps refute findings on effects of ocean acidification on reef fish
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 8, 2020 2:50:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Saint John
An international research team that includes a University of New Brunswick faculty member has published findings that challenge previous research about the impact of carbon dioxide on coral reef fish behaviour. Dr. Ben Speers-Roesch is an associate professor in biological sciences at UNB Saint John and is one of four Canadian members of the team. The paper was recently published in Nature, one...
Read the full postUNB research chair appointed to the Order of Canada
UNB Newsroom
Posted: January 3, 2020 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
Dr. Derek Lister, professor emeritus and Research Chair in Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, is one of the 120 new appointments to the Order of Canada. The honours were announced on Dec. 27, 2019, by Governor General Julie Payette. Established in 1967 as one of Canada’s highest civilian accreditations, the Order of Canada honours outstanding achievement, dedication...
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