Fredericton Arts
Posted: December 3, 2015 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Arts, Other, Research, Spotlight, Student
"The only way to drive ourselves forward is by looking in the rear-view mirror and guessing the best course to take." – Mark Damen Hello Everyone! This will be the first of many future blog posts where I will be sharing my experiences as an Arts Intern at The Milton F. Gregg Center for the Study of War and Society at UNB. This blog series will include reflections on my many adventures at Gregg...
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Posted: November 23, 2015 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Arts, Other, Spotlight, Student
Working for the Green Party has been an extraordinarily rewarding experience for me as a student, and as a young professional. Let me tell you why! We learn in many different ways in our undergraduate studies. We learn in lectures, through course readings, projects, and presentations. For me, the best method of learning is through doing. The Arts Internship has provided me with an opportunity...
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Posted: November 12, 2015 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: News, Arts, Spotlight, Research, Faculty
The Fredrik and Catherine Eaton Visitorship Award enables researchers to expand their projects internationally by supporting exchanges between the University of New Brunswick and Queen's University Belfast (QUB). Dr. Peter Gray, Professor of Modern Irish History at QUB, recently visited UNB to continue his research on the impacts of The Great Famine. Dr. Gray shared some thoughts on his...
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Posted: October 8, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student, Spotlight, Arts, Other
Now that the excitement of Orientation and start of term have passed and you have gotten that first long weekend break out of the way, it might be a good opportunity to reflect on the term so far. Hopefully by now all our new and returning students are getting settled into the rhythm of university studies. For some of you this will be your first set of midterms and papers coming due. That first...
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Posted: October 5, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, Spotlight, Arts, Faculty, News
Dr. Joanne Wright, Professor of Political Science & Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, is a recipient of the Fredrik and Catherine Eaton Visitorship Award. This Visitorship has taken her across the ocean to Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland. Read this brief interview to learn more about the specifics of Dr. Wright's research projects and why Northern Ireland and New...
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Posted: September 14, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty, Opinion, Arts, News
September 2015 Adieu from the Faculty of Arts! Does it seem a bit odd to welcome you to our new blog with a goodbye wish? Perhaps, but “farewell” is an interesting place to begin.This June, UNB’s 186th graduation, or “Encaenia,” as we call it, took place over the course of several ceremonies. The Faculty of Arts is an old hand at Encaenia: at the first one in 1828, the university’s whole...
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Posted: August 28, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty, Arts, Spotlight, Opinion, Student
Only two weeks... ...until you begin the next chapter. Regardless of whether you are joining us straight from high school or from another stage in your life, we hope all the excitement and fresh-start motivation inspired by those back-to-school vibes are helping you to feel positive about your first term. For the fourth installment in our series on 'Memories of First Year' I met up with Arts...
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Posted: August 21, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Opinion, Student, Spotlight, Arts, Other
And the countdown continues... …less than three weeks until the start of Fall term! Time flies when you're having so much summer fun. This week we will be chatting with Andrew Daley, an Assistive Technologist working with UNB Libraries and a graduate from the Arts faculty (Economics). Andrew generously shared his experiences navigating university as a mature student with a visual disability....
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Posted: August 12, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Spotlight, Other, Arts, Opinion, Student, Faculty
Four weeks to go until... ...the first day of classes! Hard to believe it's only a month away. As we head towards Orientation Week, time travel back to 1998 with us. It was a strange time where you were required to stand in line to register for courses and penny candies were still a thing (pennies were still a thing!!!). Cindy Brown sheds some light on being a first-year then: the hit songs...
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Posted: August 6, 2015 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty, Spotlight, Student, Opinion, Arts
The countdown is on! In one month we will be welcoming hundreds of new students to campus for Orientation Week. The first year of university is an exciting and emotional time. It isn’t only about learning how to study well (though that is a big part!) – it is a host of new experiences that will stay with you for years to come. What do you think will stand out this year and stick with you years...
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