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UNB professor and alumnus part of Stanley Cup-winning squad
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 30, 2020 10:30:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
UNB’s Dr. Ryan Hamilton, associate professor of psychology and UNB Alumnus (BA’00, MScExSS’03, PhD’11), played his part in the Tampa Bay Lightning winning the 2020 Stanley Cup on Sept. 28. Dr. Hamilton is a faculty member at UNB Fredericton and serves as sports psychologist for the Tampa Bay Lightning. He joined the Lightning for their on-ice celebrations at Rogers...
Read the full postObserving Orange Shirt Day and Mi'kmaq Treaty Day at UNB
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 28, 2020 10:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 1, UNB’s community will be observing Orange Shirt Day and Mi’kmaq Treaty Day. On Sept. 30, every member of the UNB community is being encouraged to wear their orange shirt in honour of Orange Shirt Day. This annual event grew out of Phyllis' story, a survivor who was six when she had her orange shirt taken away from her the first day she...
Read the full postPublic engagement seats on research committees
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 28, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: DataNB
NB-IRDT recognizes that public engagement has a tremendous role to play in research and can lead to significant benefits for everyone involved. Some benefits include: Fresh insights into research Better research questions Greater research impact Improved research quality Increased accountability and transparency of research Increased responsiveness of research to societal needs Opportunity to...
Read the full postUNB’s faculty of education to offer International Baccalaureate programs
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 24, 2020 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
As of fall 2021, students entering the bachelor of education school years program in the faculty of education at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will have the opportunity to earn an International Baccalaureate (IB) teaching and learning certificate along with their degree. UNB is one of three universities in Canada offering the certificate as part of a BEd program, and the only...
Read the full postUNB becomes first Canadian university to offer phone services through Microsoft Teams
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 23, 2020 2:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
Faculty and staff at the University of New Brunswick now have full access to their office phone services when working remotely or on campus following the successful migration of UNB’s phone system to Microsoft Teams on Aug. 27. UNB is the first Canadian university to move to a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone system run entirely through Teams, a Microsoft app known best for its video meeting,...
Read the full postUNB Saint John Athletics, Recreation and Wellness gear up for fall
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 23, 2020 11:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
The Athletics, Recreation and Wellness program at University of New Brunswick in Saint John has announced plans for the fall season, with a focus on health and wellness. The emphasis on creating wellness programs during this unprecedented time aims to get everyone moving and interacting with others whilst maintaining social distancing. “Many of us did not have the opportunity to exercise...
Read the full postUNB researchers examine gender pay gaps among health care workers before and after the pandemic
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 21, 2020 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
A group of researchers at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton are undertaking a research project that will examine trends in gender-related wage gaps among health care workers before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Many governments provided temporary “pandemic pay” to frontline health care workers fighting COVID-19. What tended to receive less policy attention was the...
Read the full postUNB nursing students implement successful community projects through virtual collaboration
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 18, 2020 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
Over a span of six weeks, nursing students at the University of New Brunswick’s Moncton site completed their course requirements and successfully implemented community projects – entirely in a virtual setting. Using Microsoft Teams and Zoom, students partnered with several community agencies across New Brunswick to provide educational resources and tools for clients who use their...
Read the full postUNB Saint John introduces The Lorenzo Society’s Virtual Book Club Series
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 17, 2020 11:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
The first Lorenzo Virtual Book Club will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. (AST) and will feature bestselling author Janie Chang discussing her recent book, The Library of Legends. Janie Chang writes historical fiction with a personal connection, drawing from a family history with 36 generations of recorded genealogy. Her first novel, Three Souls, was a finalist for the 2014 BC Book...
Read the full postCatalyst participants assist businesses with COVID-19 recovery
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 16, 2020 2:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
Student participants in the University of New Brunswick’s Catalyst program saw great success over the summer of 2020. Catalyst, supported with funding from the Province of New Brunswick, the ICTC WIL Digital program and the Mitacs Business Strategy Internship program, was designed to support communities as they adapted to and recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. It gave New Brunswick...
Read the full postUNB alumni establish scholarship in late mother’s name
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 16, 2020 11:30:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John, UNB Fredericton
When brothers and UNB alumni William and Graeme MacKinnon decided to honour their late mother Audrey, they knew it had to be in support of students. Audrey did not attend university herself, though she had very much wanted to. When she graduated from Plaster Rock Superior School in 1942, the eldest of seven children, she knew that university would place too much financial hardship on her...
Read the full postGoogle awards UNB researcher funding for FPGAs
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 15, 2020 2:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
University of New Brunswick researcher Dr. Kenneth Kent has been awarded funding from Google that will be used to help create new tools for designing special computer chips. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are a special type of computer chip that can be reconfigured after manufacturing to create different functionality. The flexibility and reconfigurability of these chips make them...
Read the full postUNB partners with Family Plus Life Solutions to expand mental health services
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 14, 2020 11:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
The University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus has signed a memorandum of understanding with counselling provider Family Plus Life Solutions, Inc., strengthening its mental health services for students. The agreement will allow students who require more intense psychotherapy, beyond what UNB counselling services provide, to do so in a way that works within their personal...
Read the full postUNB PhD student to become specialized population analyst
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 10, 2020 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
A PhD candidate from the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus has been selected as a trainee for the Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3) Program: Developing Talent for Population Analytics in Aging Societies. Spurred by the fact that the population of Canada is aging at an unprecedented rate, CAnD3 is the first Canadian multidisciplinary...
Read the full postComprehensive android dataset will combat malware and improve smartphone security
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 8, 2020 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
In collaboration with Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC) at the University of New Brunswick has released a benchmark comprehensive android cybersecurity dataset named CCCS-CIC-AndMal-2020. This dataset, which includes a total of 400,000 android apps and is the first in a series of two, was created by a team led by Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari,...
Read the full postUNB receives Canadian Space Agency funding to enhance space science equipment
UNB Newsroom
Posted: September 2, 2020 10:45:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
The University of New Brunswick has been selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop and install a new space weather monitoring instrument in the Canadian Arctic. It has been awarded $300,000 from the agency for the project. The device, a high-frequency radar known as a Modular Ionospheric Sounder, is intended to be deployed in harsh, remote environments like the Arctic or space. It...
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