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Renaissance College valedictorian Evan Di Cesare: A journey of resilience and discovery
Hilary Creamer Robinson
Posted: May 7, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton
Evan Di Cesare's transformative journey at Renaissance College at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) epitomizes resilience, community and passion. From Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Di Cesare is graduating this spring with a bachelor of philosophy in interdisciplinary leadership. Through the sorrow of personal loss and the challenges of a pandemic-altered university experience,...
Read the full post'Building Home': Art meets advocacy in a journey through youth homelessness
Tim Jaques
Posted: May 6, 2024
Category: UNB Saint John , UNB Fredericton
The first sight is familiar: a tent patched with duct tape, with a tarp thrown over it. A shopping cart contains bagged plastic bottles and a bicycle leans against a tree. To the right is a mattress in what may be a jerry-built shack or an abandoned building, along with a backpack and someone's meagre possessions. A couch in an adjacent room serves as a bed. Voices call out. Some express...
Read the full postDenisha Coelho encourages fellow students to thrive on embracing challenges
Hilary Creamer Robinson
Posted: May 6, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton
Four years ago, Denisha Coelho packed her bags and moved from Mumbai, India, to Fredericton, New Brunswick to pursue a bachelor of science in kinesiology. This was a step out of her comfort zone – not just moving from a big city to a small town a world away – but because kinesiology wasn’t a well-known career path at the time. Since arriving in New Brunswick and beginning her...
Read the full postValedictorian Kate Palmer immerses herself in student life and helping others post-pandemic
UNB Newsroom
Posted: May 3, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton
University of New Brunswick (UNB) valedictorian Kate Palmer spent the first year of her undergraduate degree learning from her childhood bedroom in Rothesay, N.B., during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Four years later, the isolation of her first year is a distant but formative memory. As someone who finds purpose and fulfillment in helping others and making the world a healthier place,...
Read the full postUNB to grant six honorary degrees at spring graduation ceremonies
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Apr 30, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton , UNB Saint John
Six extraordinary individuals keeping history alive, changing the present and transforming our future, will receive honorary degrees from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) from May 15 to 17. Fred Beairsto will receive an honorary doctorate of letters in Fredericton on May 16 at 2:30 p.m. A successful entrepreneur, humanitarian and Order of New Brunswick recipient, he has made significant...
Read the full postUNB to honour these five valedictorians at spring graduation ceremonies
Hilary Creamer Robinson
Posted: Apr 29, 2024
Category: UNB Saint John , UNB Fredericton
At the University of New Brunswick (UNB) graduation ceremonies in Fredericton and Saint John, five valedictorians will address UNB’s graduating classes of 2024. Kate Palmer Kate Palmer spent the first year of her undergraduate degree learning from her childhood bedroom in Rothesay, N.B., during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Four years later, the isolation of the 2020/2021 academic...
Read the full postVictoria LaBillois inducted into UNB Faculty of Management Wall of Fame
Alumni News
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton
Mi’gmaq entrepreneur as well as national and community leader, Victoria LaBillois (BA’91, MBA’04), has been honoured with the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Faculty of Management Certificate of Achievement Award and inducted permanently on the Faculty’s Alumni Wall of Fame. On a sunny April afternoon at the Alumni Memorial Building, friends, family, classmates,...
Read the full postLily George was a record-breaking hockey player and community builder for the UNB REDS
Alex Graham
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton
From an early age, record-setting University of New Brunswick (UNB) REDS hockey player Lily George was getting feedback from family and friends that she was something special on the ice. “I think I was always one of the faster kids on this ice. I just had a lot of people telling me I’d played great,” she said of her early days picking up a stick to have a go at the game she...
Read the full postUNB hosts inaugural AstraZeneca Integrated Health Initiative Research Symposium
Kayla Cormier
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Category: UNB Saint John
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) recently hosted its first annual Integrated Health Initiative (IHI) Research Symposium in partnership with AstraZeneca. This two-day event took place on the Saint John campus April 11 and 12. Group presentations and poster presentations provided attendees a chance to engage with students and ask questions about their research. Honours students from the...
Read the full postUNB business student wins $45,000 Frank H. Sobey Award
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Apr 18, 2024
Category: UNB Fredericton
A third-year business student at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) is one of this year’s winners of the Frank H. Sobey Awards For Excellence in Business Studies. Muhammad Jahanzaib, enrolled in the bachelor of business administration program with majors in accounting and finance, is one of eight winners at Atlantic Canadian universities, each of whom will receive $45,000. They were...
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