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Dr. Nick Bray – UNB's new Shannex Research Chair in Aging Transitions
Kathleen McLaughlin
Posted: Aug 18, 2026
Category: UNB Saint John , Press Releases
Research Chair will advance innovative aging research, strengthen community partnerships and inform policies that support healthy aging in New Brunswick and beyond. The University of New Brunswick is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nick Bray as the inaugural Shannex Research Chair in Aging Transitions at the School of Integrated Health. Having assumed the role on July 1, Dr. Bray...
Read the full postSpace happens here: Inside UNB's growing role in NASA missions
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Aug 17, 2026
Category: UNB Fredericton
From Mars to the Moon and beyond, discover how researchers and students at the University of New Brunswick are contributing to some of the world's most ambitious space missions When most people picture space exploration, they think of rocket launches in Florida, mission control rooms in Houston, or rovers exploring the surface of Mars. Few would expect a major contribution to those efforts to...
Read the full postUNB and Talent Innovation Canada partner to accelerate research commercialization and talent development
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Aug 14, 2026
Category: Press Releases
A new partnership between the University of New Brunswick and Talent Innovation Canada (TICAN) will help accelerate research commercialization in New Brunswick while creating new opportunities for UNB graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to tackle real-world industry challenges. This partnership combines TICAN’s made-in-Canada model, which connects industrial innovation with...
Read the full postUNB and Unifor sign collective agreement
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Aug 13, 2026
Category: Press Releases
On Tuesday, Aug. 11, the University of New Brunswick and Unifor Local 4504 signed a collective agreement and celebrated a joint commitment to students and to the mission of UNB. Both parties were pleased with the terms of the agreement. The Unifor Local 4504 bargaining unit represents approximately 220 support staff employees working in administrative assistant, accounting, library assistant...
Read the full postAgility, collaboration key drivers of UNB climate change research
Alexandra Graham
Posted: Aug 12, 2026
Category: Research , Faculty of Science , UNB Fredericton , UNB Saint John
UNB's collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to climate research is driving national recognition and helping communities understand and adapt to a changing world. Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities ranked the University of New Brunswick fourth in Canada among comprehensive universities for climate change research share and publication growth. The ranking was based on climate change...
Read the full postWho will power Canada's nuclear energy future? UNB is helping prepare the workforce
Hilary Creamer
Posted: Aug 7, 2026
Category: UNB Fredericton
As demand for skilled workers grows across Canada's nuclear sector, UNB is connecting students with industry, research, and career opportunities while helping build the workforce of the future. Canada needs more skilled workers to support the future of nuclear energy, and UNB is helping to prepare them. For Camilla Drost (BScE'25), that preparation has already opened doors she never...
Read the full postThe McKenna Institute is inspiring the next generation of innovators through TeXplore program
Kathleen McLaughlin
Posted: Aug 4, 2026
Category: UNB Saint John , UNB Fredericton
A new McKenna Institute program is levelling up curious minds for families across New Brunswick by providing engaging, future-focused learning opportunities for students on non-instructional days. Since its inception in 2021, the McKenna Institute at the University of New Brunswick has been a driving force for innovation and positive change across the province. Guided by its mission to...
Read the full postFaculty of Business at UNB’s Saint John campus launches Atlantic Sales Performance Hub
UNB Newsroom
Posted: Jul 28, 2026
Category: Press Releases
The University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Business on the Saint John campus has launched the Atlantic Sales Performance Hub—a new collaborative forum connecting sales leaders with evidence-based research, professional education, and opportunities to address the region’s sales challenges. The first initiative of its kind in Atlantic Canada, the hub brings together academic...
Read the full postEleven new social science and humanities research projects funded at UNB
Jeremy Elder-Jubelin
Posted: Jul 27, 2026
Category: Research , UNB Fredericton , UNB Saint John
Eleven new UNB-led projects have been awarded funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The projects tackle some of the complex and challenging topics facing our communities today, and highlight the importance of rigorous research that seeks to better understand and positively impact the lives of individuals, groups, and societies. Eleven research projects at...
Read the full postUNB researchers discover new biological process in plants that could revolutionize the production of important medicines
Jeremy Elder-Jubelin
Posted: Jul 16, 2026
Category: Faculty of Science , UNB Fredericton , Research , UNB Saint John
A University of New Brunswick research team led by Dr. Yang Qu, collaborating with researchers from Westlake University and Zhejiang University in China, has discovered a previously unknown mechanism involved in the creation of certain compounds, including one crucial to the production of a chemotherapy drug so important that it is listed on the World Health Organization’s List of...
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