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UNB mathematicians join research project tackling COVID-19
UNB Newsroom
Posted: March 31, 2020 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
Two professors from the University of New Brunswick are part of a multi-institutional research project whose work will contribute to the global understanding of COVID-19. Mathematics professor Dr. James Watmough and Dr. Sanjeev Seahra, professor and chair of UNB Fredericton’s department of mathematics and statistics, have joined the Canadian COVID-19 Math Modelling Task Force. This task...
Read the full postFifth annual Peace and Friendship Treaty Days brings Thomas Berger to UNB
UNB Newsroom
Posted: March 11, 2020 9:50:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
The University of New Brunswick is hosting its fifth annual Peace and Friendship Treaty Days on March 12 and 13 at the Wu Conference Centre in Fredericton, which will feature a keynote presentation by former MP Thomas Berger. This year’s theme is “You Cannot Own Another Life Form: Integrating Indigenous Understandings of Sharing into Land and Resource Use Decisions.” The...
Read the full postUNB nursing students promote healthy eating to Saint John schoolchildren
UNB Newsroom
Posted: March 10, 2020 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
Nursing students from the University of New Brunswick recently led a healthy eating Lunch and Learn session for 153 children at Hazen White-St. Francis School, as part of the Promise Partnership. Earlier this year, the 50 first-year UNB students presented recommendations and advice from Canada’s Food Guide to the children, their teachers and parents. Groups of students were assigned a...
Read the full postThe cost of workplace cancers
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: March 9, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: DataNB
Many jobs in New Brunswick involve regular exposure to carcinogens. While it is difficult—and in many cases impossible—to prove a case of cancer was caused by exposure to workplace carcinogens, some occupations are highly correlated with certain types of cancer. But until fairly recently, few occupational cancer cases qualified for Workers Compensation coverage. Firefighters have...
Read the full postUNB and Bangor University sign letter of intent for SMR collaboration
UNB Newsroom
Posted: March 5, 2020 12:45:00 PM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
The University of New Brunswick and Bangor University in Wales have signed a letter of intent to work together on the development of small modular reactors, or SMRs. Dr. Willy Cook, a professor of chemical engineering and director of the Centre for Nuclear Energy Research at UNB, is part of a national delegation attending the Canada-UK Nuclear Energy Summit in the United Kingdom. Dr. Cook...
Read the full postPutting knowledge into action: Venture capitalists in the making with NBIF
UNB Newsroom
Posted: March 3, 2020 10:00:00 AM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
Since the fall of 2019, a group of UNB students have been working side-by-side with staff at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) to master the tools of venture capitalism. In the next few days they will be putting their knowledge to the test as they join other students from across Canada to compete in the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), hosted by Saint Mary’s...
Read the full postUNB students win big at Atlantic Engineering Competition
UNB Newsroom
Posted: March 2, 2020 11:00:00 AM AST
Category: UNB Fredericton
Students from the University of New Brunswick recently competed and took home first and second place prizes in the 2020 Atlantic Engineering Competition (AEC). This year’s competition, which was hosted by UNB Fredericton from Jan. 23 to 26, brought together engineering students from 12 Atlantic Canadian universities to compete in a variety of technical competitions. During the event,...
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