Enrolment in men’s residence was up 24%, while women’s residence saw a decrease, bringing resident totals equal to last year’s numbers. Read more… Significant increases were seen in new student enrolments (16%). Columbia Bible College welcomed 530 students this September – slightly up from the fall 2008 student body number. Degree program enrolment was steady while diploma and certificate programs increased 33% and 8% respectively.
Andry Giesbrecht recorded a goal and an assist, Brennen White earned the blank sheet, and the Providence Freemen won the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference Championship banner Sunday afternoon with a 2-0 victory over the Canadian Mennonite University Blazers. Read more…
Read more… The Government of Saskatchewan, Royal Dutch Shell and the University of Regina today announced a new international centre that will help make western Canada a world leader in the worldwide deployment and acceptance of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS).
The Committee for Effective Teaching and Learning Environments recently unveiled the new model classroom in POD-372. Read more…
TRU Journalism student, Melissa Vasey was one of seven students recently awarded with the prestigious Jack Webster’s Student Journalism Award. Read more…
Read more… A 34-year-old Millwork and Carpentry student at NAIT is using a new line of wheelchair compatible woodworking equipment – which includes a band saw, jointer, and table saw that have all been built at a lower level and with on/off switches in easier to reach places.
Thompson Rivers University Foundation is awarding close to $600,000 to 610 students from Kamloops, 100 Mile House, 150 Mile House, Cache Creek, Barriere, Clearwater and many other communities in TRU’s region. Read more…
Read more… The world’s largest, most advanced and most comprehensive facility devoted to spinal cord injury research and patient care was opened today by Premier Gordon Campbell, Rick Hansen and members of the health care and spinal cord research community.
At the Canadian Health Research Awards ceremony being held this evening in Ottawa, Dr. Read more… Peter Tugwell, Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the Institute of Population Health, will be named Canada’s 2008 Health Researcher of the Year – Health Services and Systems and Population Health Research.
Today GlaxoSmithKline Inc. announced a $1 million investment partnership to establish an endowment for a University of Manitoba research chair in the immunobiology of infectious disease. Read more…
