Humber College to Offer Specialized Business Degrees
Humber will offer three unique, specialized four-year business degrees starting fall 2008 in Human Resources Management, Fashion Management and International Business. The first two years of study are built on the platform of a solid business education offering courses in marketing, accounting, economics and law.
August 31, 2007
“Kwantlen Summer Jazz” Camp Makes Sweet Music
Kwantlen University College’s Music department welcomed 35 high school students from across the Lower Mainland to its inaugural music camp, “Kwantlen Summer Jazz ’07.” “We are extremely happy with the results of our first Kwantlen Summer Jazz Camp,” said David Proznick, camp coordinator. “Having students attend this camp using Kwantlen’s wonderful music facilities in Langley opened their eyes to the availability of undergraduate music studies opportunities. It was also a great chance to test the waters and potentially expand Kwantlen’s present music program to include more jazz courses.”
August 30, 2007
Lethbridge College: 50 Years of Learning and Excellence
The year was 1957 and 38 young people bound and determined to make something of their future enrolled at Lethbridge Junior College, Canada's first publicly funded community college. Those 38 students chose from university transfer or technical training courses at an institution of about a dozen staff and faculty.
August 24, 2007
Lethbridge College: Grand Reopening for Cousins Building
Donning safety glasses and a lab coat, the Honourable Doug Horner, Alberta's Minister of Advanced Education and Technology, unfurled more than the newly refurbished sciences building at Lethbridge College today. In a scientific demonstration, the Minister unveiled banners with the College's new logo in the atrium of the extensively renovated, 40-year-old Cousins Building, which will house all of Lethbridge College's applied sciences programs.
August 24, 2007
Mount Allison University: Prominent Geographer to Teach About Human Impact on the environment
Are you interested in how humans affect the environment? This fall, prominent geographer Dr. Stuart Semple will teach the introductory course, The Human Environment, as part of Mount Allison University's department of continuous learning program in Moncton. This course is one of many offered by the new department of geography and environment at Mount Allison.
August 16, 2007
Kwantlen Nursing Instructor Establishes $20,000 Psychiatric Nursing Endowment
Melodie Hull, registered psychiatric nurse (RPN) and former Kwantlen University College Bachelor of Science in Nursing instructor, has provided a $10,000 endowment fund to provide financial assistance to students enrolled in Kwantlen’s Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing program. “I have a lifelong commitment to improving the credibility and visibility of RPNs,” said Hull.
August 9, 2007
University of Saskatchewan Represented on Space Shuttle Endeavour
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) will be well represented on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled for take-off August 8, 2007 from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Aboard the Shuttle Endeavour will be a University of Saskatchewan Centennial mission badge and Dr. Dave Williams. Saskatoon-born Williams, a physician and veteran astronaut, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 2004, and is scheduled for at least two space walks during the mission.
August 07, 2007
University of Calgary - The Tour for Kids
The Schulich School of Engineering cycling team raised almost $15,000 for kids cancer care in a two-day cycling race across the Alberta prairie at the end of July. The four-member team -- Neil Duncan, Christopher Hunter, and Steve Boyd, along with University Technologies International's Paul Cataford -- confirmed after the race that the Alberta prairies are not at all flat, and that four strong winds are indeed a part of the Alberta landscape!
August 3, 2007
Niagara College Professor Receives Provincial Award
Niagara College President, Dan Patterson and Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor presented Robert Greene with the Leadership in Faculty Teaching (LIFT) Award this morning. The awards were developed by the Ontario government to recognize and encourage teaching excellence at the province's colleges and universities. Winners receive a total of $20,000 over two years.
August 1, 2007
Thompson Rivers University: Conferences Key to Student Research Success
Stacey Lamont and Chester Lipka are studying a mathematical question that has eluded a complete solution for 66 years. Their project involves something called the "Graph Reconstruction Conjecture", an informal description of the problem is as follows: if shown pieces of a network (subnets if you like), can you reconstruct the entire network from having seen the pieces?
August 2007
