Impact of Giving
UNB’s McKenna Institute announces investment in digital agriculture led by McCain Foods
UNB Newsroom
Posted: June 11, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: News and Events , Innovation
The McKenna Institute at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) is thrilled to announce a landmark $3.75 million investment from a partnership led by McCain Foods and other New Brunswick institutions that will revolutionize digital agriculture, progress regenerative farming practices and minimize the impact of climate change on farmland. Over the next five years, McCain Foods is committing $2.76 million to create a project that imitates farming with regenerative agriculture practices, with the...
UNB Grad researched complex processes that can help fight cancer thanks to fellowship award
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 5, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation , News and Events , Alumni Annual Giving
Marta Tomás Piqueras came to the University of New Brunswick to pursue doctoral studies in organic chemistry and now is involved in groundbreaking pharmaceutical research and development back in her native Spain. Marta (PhD’23), attended UNB from 2018 to 2022 and received $25,000 from the Richard Langler Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry. Her research involved synthesizing iridium complexes with hydrogen-bond ligands. The iridium complexes are a class of organometallic...
Canadian foundation supports digital innovation that aids right whale conservation
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: December 18, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events , Innovation
Thanks to the Murphy Family Foundation, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) McKenna Institute and intrepid researcher Dr. Kim Davies, one of our region’s most iconic and endangered species, the North Atlantic right whale, is getting a better chance at survival. Find out more here.
Innovative 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 donations as they develop amazing new techniques relating to their areas of study.For Allison,...
Undergrad researcher a superstar in the lab
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: December 16, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation
Lauren McGrath’s passion for science research was ignited at UNB before she even had begun her first year.Lauren was a high school student in 2019 when UNB Fredericton hosted the Canada-Wide Science Fair. She said that presenting her research to a national audience made her realize she could pursue science as a career. “It was amazing to me,” she said. “It put me on the path to doing more research.”Now in her fourth year of the biology-chemistry honours program,...
Research for a better tomorrow
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 6, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation , News and Events , Tribute Gifts
What makes the UNB experience unique? For student Sarah Lunney, it is the opportunity to pursue studies with the potential to generate real impact at the community level. In 2020-21, Sarah became the inaugural recipient of the Rosemary Aicher Health & Environment Research Experience (HERE) Award. The award enables UNB Saint John students to conduct interdisciplinary research on how environmental factors affect health...
From earth's gravity to New Brunswick seniors
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: November 25, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation , Alumni Annual Giving
When completing his PhD in geomatics engineering, Dr. Ismael Foroughi (PhD 2019) analyzed the height system of earth’s gravity field. During his final semester he was invited to take part in a project that would shift the focus of his research entirely, using geographical data in exciting new ways. Today, with the support of the Purdy Crawford/TD Bank Postdoctoral Fellowship in Accessibility, Dr. Foroughi investigates the effect of geographical factors on the health and well-being of...
New residence honours trailblazing couple
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: July 29, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Creating Opportunities for Students , News and Events , Innovation , Tribute Gifts
UNB’s newest student residence in Saint John will honour two key figures in the campus’ history, Dr. Barry Beckett and the late Flora Beckett. The Becketts joined UNB Saint John in 1966. Barry became a chemistry professor and campus registrar. Flora became a mathematics professor and director of the Math Help Centre. They helped build an identity for the campus based upon research excellence and community engagement.The 40,000-sq.ft, geothermally heated Barry and Flora Beckett...
Making health care more accessible
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: March 5, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events , Alumni Annual Giving , Innovation
After completing her doctoral studies in Demography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), Dr. Anat Ziv knew she wanted to make her primary research focus the health status of the working age population. Thanks to the Purdy Crawford/Stephen Jarislowsky Postdoctural Fellow in Health Policy, she was able to do that by coming to the University of New Brunswick.Drawing in part on data from national health surveys, Dr. Ziv is illuminating the main obstacles to health care access and...
Building a better New Brunswick
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 16, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: News and Events , Innovation
One of many new initiatives Dr. Herb Emery has spearheaded in his three plus years as the Vaughan Chair in Regional Economics, the recently established Atlantic Institute for Policy Research (AIPR) will be an invaluable resource in the Chair’s efforts to inform policy development in the region. The Institute will help government and members of the public better understand the factors capable of influencing growth in the province and beyond.As the director of the AIPR, Dr. Emery...
Driving change for women at UNB
Development and Donor Relations
Posted: January 2, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation , Creating Opportunities for Students , News and Events
What started as a simple conversation about biology midterms has turned into a defining conference for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the University of New Brunswick. Girls STEM Up Jill Lamb (BSc ’19), who chaired the J.D. Irving, Limited, 2019 Girls STEM Up Conference, believes the event sparked an important discussion on gender inequity in the STEM fields and will be an important stepping stone for female students who are focused on entering...
Entrepreneur supported by scholarships
Development and Donor Relations, UNB
Posted: February 1, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Scholarships and Bursaries , Creating Opportunities for Students , Innovation
Photo: Chedi Mbaga, 2nd year Bachelor of Engineering in Geodesy and Geomatics Toronto, ON When Chedi Mbaga learned that he was one of 33 students to receive a prestigious Loran Scholarship out of over 4,400 applicants, the Toronto native had also accepted a challenge to study outside of his home province. His difficult choice was made easier because of his experience at the University of New Brunswick through the SHAD student enrichment program for high school students. After graduating, he...
Doctoral student leading research in Canada's Far North
Development and Donor Relations, UNB
Posted: January 2, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Creating Opportunities for Students , Innovation , Scholarships and Bursaries
Photo: Maree McGregor, Doctoral Candidate in Earth Sciences, Perth, Australia Maree McGregor fell in love with UNB as an undergrad student, visiting the Fredericton campus on an international exchange trip from Australia’s James Cook University. So impressed was the Perth native that she subsequently applied to take her master’s degree at UNB. She now finds herself in the midst of her PhD in earth sciences, where she is playing a lead role in researching Canada’s Far...