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Blue water, green futures: OFI Seed Fund supports four UNB projects in 2021

UNB Research

Posted: December 17, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST

Category: Research, Innovation & Commercialization


Researchers at the University of New Brunswick have received funding for four projects from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s (OFI) Seed Fund program. This funding will enable novel research opportunities that advance UNB’s emphasis on, and leadership in, scholarship that supports the blue economy and a healthier future for our oceans. The projects funded will create new knowledge and...

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UNB researcher receives book, journal awards for groundbreaking work on race and disability

UNB Research

Posted: December 10, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST

Category: Research, Accolades, Publications



What happens when disability and race intersect? For Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, it opens a window into an entire area of history previously left to the margins. Dr. Hunt-Kennedy is an associate professor of Caribbean, Atlantic World and Disability history at the University of New Brunswick, and the author of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of...

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Wolastoqey Elder and linguist Dr. Peter Lewis Paul honoured with exhibit

UNB Research

Posted: December 1, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST

Category: Research



A Wolastoqey Elder and his work are being honoured with a special display in the University of New Brunswick’s Harriet Irving Library (HIL) Research Commons. The late Dr. Peter Lewis Paul (1902-1989), an Elder and linguist from Woodstock First Nation, worked with scholars throughout his life to record and preserve elements of the Wolastoqey language. April Saulis is the UNB student who...

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