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UNB to grant six honorary degrees at spring graduation ceremonies
UNB Newsroom
Posted: April 30, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
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: April 29, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
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: April 26, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
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: April 25, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
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: April 25, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
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: April 18, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
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...
Read the full postStudents showcase innovations at 10th annual Engineering Design Symposium
Tim Jaques
Posted: April 16, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
Creativity took centre stage at the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) 10th annual Engineering Design Symposium, showcasing students' inventive approaches to tackling practical challenges. The symposium was held April 4 at the Wu Convention Centre, with 181 students taking part in 46 projects. During their final year, engineering students work in teams to develop capstone projects under...
Read the full postUNB named one of Atlantic Canada’s Top Employers (2024)
UNB Newsroom
Posted: April 15, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Press Releases
For the 12th consecutive year, the University of New Brunswick (UNB) has been named one of Atlantic Canada’s Top Employers. Organized by MediaCorp, the annual competition awards organizations across the four Atlantic provinces that provide Maritimers with exceptional places to work. This year, Atlantic Canada was recognized for helping employees and their families give back to the...
Read the full postStudent story on mental health and physical activity a finalist for national award
Jeremy Elder-Jubelin
Posted: April 12, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton
A University of New Brunswick (UNB) student is a finalist in this year’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers contest. But, beyond winning one of the top five spots, she hopes her video will help inspire and educate people near and far. Growing up, Taylor McAulay learned a lot as a student athlete. She learned how to play sports; learned about the...
Read the full post‘A match made in heaven’: UNB students and Port Saint John tackle decarbonization
Tim Jaques
Posted: April 11, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
An innovative experiential learning partnership between the faculty of business on the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Saint John campus and Port Saint John has allowed 150 students to propose solutions to environmental challenges faced by a real-world industry. “The real goal of the experience was the idea of what could the future look like? How could you influence the future...
Read the full postHousing Futures: Solutions for homelessness and affordable housing
Tim Jaques
Posted: April 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John
Leaders highlighted the urgency of finding sustainable solutions to homelessness and ensure access to affordable housing at the Shaping the Debate: Housing Futures symposium on April 4 and 5 hosted by the University of New Brunswick (UNB). UNB’s Shaping the Debate initiative enables important conversations with the goal of building a more prosperous and just future for New Brunswick....
Read the full postThe “GlobalChild” Child Advisory Board meet with UN Special Rapporteur
Kathleen McLaughlin
Posted: April 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John
This past Saturday, April 6, saw the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) GlobalChild team and their Child Advisory Board (CAB) engage in an important meeting with a United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur. Mama Fatima Singhateh from Gambia, the Special Rapporteur (UNSPR) on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, met virtually with GlobalChild and CAB to engage in a...
Read the full postUNB celebrates ‘Skitqomiqewi Kcicihtuwinut’ Dr. Charles Sacobie
Tim Jaques
Posted: April 8, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Fredericton, UNB Saint John, Faculty of Science
A University of New Brunswick (UNB) assistant biology professor was recognized as a keeper of both Indigenous and academic scientific knowledge in a ceremony held at the Wu Conference Centre on March 21. Dr. Charles Sacobie (BSc'98, MSc'01, PhD'11), whose research interests are fish ecophysiology and bioenergetics, holds the title of Indigenous science scholar or Skitqomiqewi Kcicihtuwinut...
Read the full postEclipse researchers give N.B. students out of this world education
UNB News
Posted: April 4, 2024 4:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty of Science, UNB Saint John, UNB Fredericton
Students and teachers from across New Brunswick are about to get an out of this world education in the unique effects of a total solar eclipse on the Earth’s atmosphere and space environment thanks to a new partnership between the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and public schools across the province. The UNB Radio and Space Physics Laboratory (RSPL) has helped 15 schools across the...
Read the full postHow do students learn about intelligence briefings? How about briefing a former CIA intelligence officer
Tim Jaques
Posted: April 3, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: UNB Saint John, UNB Fredericton
How do you teach students to prepare and deliver a high-level intelligence briefing to a senior political leader? Dr. Sarah-Jane Corke (PhD’00), an associate professor in the department of history on the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Fredericton campus, has her students brief a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence briefer, a highly stressful but effective...
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