Impact of Giving
BMO, UNB announce $2 million commitment to sports and entrepreneurship
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 23, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events
BMO Financial Group (BMO) and the University of New Brunswick (UNB) today announced a gift of $2 million in support of student achievement in entrepreneurship. This major gift reflects the value BMO places on educating future generations, professional development, and creating opportunities for young Canadians to engage in sport. BMO’s 10-year gift includes: $1 million to resurface the...
Read the full postUNB breaks ground on Engineering Commons thanks to $1.1 million alumni gift
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 13, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events
FREDERICTON - It was raining heavily on Nov. 25, but University of New Brunswick Chancellor Allison McCain and President and Vice-Chancellor Paul J. Mazerolle were smiling as they hefted their shovels for a ceremonial groundbreaking. Standing in the lobby of Head Hall, flanked by artist’s renderings of what the renovated structure will look like, UNB’s senior leaders formally...
Read the full postCommunity-minded alumna recognized for giving back
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 10, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Creating Opportunities for Students, Scholarships and Bursaries
Neelab Rahimi (BA’15, MBA’21) is excelling in her chosen career in Saint John, NB, a long way from her early childhood in Afghanistan.Neelab says her parents brought her family to Canada to take advantage of educational opportunities not open to women in her home country. She has made the most of those opportunities throughout her time at UNB, while consistently giving back to her...
Read the full postUNB’s Schulich Leaders thriving in first year
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 9, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Creating Opportunities for Students, News and Events, Scholarships and Bursaries
Micah Landry and Isaac Buckingham are thriving in their first year at UNB, thanks to the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship.Schulich Leader Scholarships, Canada’s premier Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship program, has been supporting Canada’s top entrepreneurial-minded technology innovators for more than a decade. One hundred undergraduate...
Read the full postInnovative research at UNB plumbs ocean depths and seeks alien life
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 6, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation, News and Events
From protecting life in the oceans to the limitless search for alien life in outer space, researchers at the University of New Brunswick are breaking new ground through innovative approaches to complex questions, helped in large part by our donors.Two researchers and faculty members, Allison Enright, an environmental electrochemist, and Kimberley Davies, an oceanographer, are being supported by...
Read the full postA Métis student looks at attitudes in university sports
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 3, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Creating Opportunities for Students, News and Events
For Luke Gust, understanding the attitudes of university athletes towards sexual minorities is a research area that could open new doors for the LGBTQ+ community.Gust, who is studying for his master of science in kinesiology at UNB, is the first member of his Métis family in Saskatchewan to attend university. He said that being awarded a TD Insurance Indigenous Bursary during his...
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