Fredericton Faculty of Arts
Annual Bank of Canada: The Governor's Challenge
Faculty of Arts
Posted: Jun 19, 2024
Category: Spotlight , News , Events
Dr. Murshed Chowdhury, Elif Dalkir and Mehmet Dalkir participate and coach annually in the Bank of Canada's Monetary Policy Competition (The Governor's Challenge), an experiential learning opportunity for prospective students. The Governor's Challenge is a university competition designed to promote understanding of the role of monetary policy in Canada's economy. The Governor's Challenge...
Read the full postThe Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching
Faculty of Arts
Posted: Jun 19, 2024
Category: Arts , Events , Spotlight , News
Dr. Murshed Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of Economics at UNB Fredericton. He has expertise in open economy macroeconomics, financial regulations, international development and migration. Since joining UNB in 2016, he has been involved in various collaborative research projects, supervising graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Chowdhury has a passion and dedication for teaching....
Read the full postFive Years of Transformative Change: Faculty of Arts launches new academic plan
Tabatha Armstrong & Joanne Wright
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
Category: Other , News , Faculty , Arts
From Joanne Wright, Dean of Arts I am very pleased to introduce the Faculty of Arts Academic Plan 2023-28. This plan represents the academic vision for our faculty for the next five years and emerges from years of collaboration and consultation. It charts a path forward for Arts and considers several of our most important opportunities and challenges: generating growth, enhancing our...
Read the full postA Message from the Dean of Arts
Faculty of Arts
Posted: Mar 24, 2023
Category: Events , Faculty , Other , News , Spotlight , Arts , Student , Research
A Message from the Dean of Arts, Joanne Wright Greetings to UNB alumni readers! As Dean of the Faculty of Arts on the Fredericton campus, it brings me great to pleasure to share a few updates on exciting initiatives, achievements, and changes in the Faculty of Arts that have taken place over the 2022-2023 academic year. The 2022-2023 academic year offered new challenges...
Read the full post2021-22 Dean's list dinner to celebrate 257 students and feature CBC's Julia Wright as guest speaker
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: Nov 18, 2022
Category: Student , Events , Other , Arts
Julia Wright, Credit: CBC 2019 The Faculty of Arts will be hosting a dinner in celebration of Dean's List students and award recipients on November 30th. The annual in person event had been put on hold during the pandemic. The Faculty is delighted to be able to gather in person again to celebrate the achievements of our students. An outstanding number of students succeeded in making...
Read the full postFive Frightening Films from Atlantic Canada to Check Out
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: Oct 29, 2021
Category: Arts , Departmental , Other , Opinion
Looking for locally sourced scares this Halloween Weekend? Professor Scott Preston, Chair of the Culture and Media Studies department, has put together a list of his top five Atlantic Horror movies streaming now. Pull out the popcorn and get into the spooky season by checking out the complete linked list below 👻🎃👇 Adrift (2014) From local filmmaker Jared Carney,...
Read the full postW. Stewart MacNutt Lecture
Faculty of Arts
Posted: Nov 25, 2020
Please join the Faculty of Arts for the annual W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. The lecture will be given by historian Dr. Shirley Tillotson, professor emeritus at Dalhousie University and University of King's College.A Region of Feeling: Bringing the History of Emotions to Political Economy in Atlantic CanadaAtlantic Canada’s historiography mixes...
Read the full postCongratulations to the 2020 Faculty of Arts Graduating Class
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: May 28, 2020
Category: Student , Events , Other , Arts
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Lorne L. Dawson to present W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: Jan 15, 2020
Category: Faculty , Arts , Events
Join us for the W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m. in Tilley Hall - Room 102, UNB Fredericton campus. "Who Becomes a Jihadi Terrorist, How and Why?" will be presented by Professor Lorne L. Dawson from the University of Waterloo. The threat of domestic terrorism is a new and ever-present reality, even in Canada. Countering this threat is difficult for many...
Read the full postUNB-Maine collaboration connects high schoolers to hands-on archaeology
Brad Ackerson
Posted: Nov 14, 2019
Category: Research , Faculty , Student , Arts , Departmental
UNB Department of Anthropology faculty member Dr. Gabe Hrynick and his colleagues have been working to address the growing problem of archaeological losses resulting from rising sea levels through a collaborative project between UNB, Cobscook Community Learning Center (CCLC), and the University of Maine’s Maine Midden Minders project. This project aims to train local communities and...
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