5 enhancements to your student experience for fall 2017
Posted: 6 September 2017
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Welcome (and welcome back) Mount students! ~A message from Paula Barry Mercer, AVP, Student Experience As another great year gets started, I wanted to take a moment to share some exciting updates. Top 5 enhancements…
Matriculation 2017 welcomes new students to the Mount family
Posted: 5 September 2017
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Mount President to new students: “Welcome home.” On Sunday, September 3, new Mount students were piped in to the auditorium in the Seton Academic Centre – the same auditorium in which they will sit as…
New art exhibition explores aging and age-related disability
Posted: 5 September 2017
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Exhibit to challenge assumptions about aging From September 9 toNovember 12, 2017, the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery will be home to a special exhibition of works that challenge assumptions about aging and explore…
Federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan stops by Mount camp encouraging girls in STEM
Posted: 1 September 2017
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On Tuesday, August 29, 2017, Canada’s Minister of Science, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, stopped by the Girls Get WISE Science Summer Camp at the Mount. The camp is led by professor Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal and…
The story of a Mount scientific “Jack of all Trades”: Kevin Shaughnessy
Posted: 28 August 2017
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Meet lab instructor Kevin Shaughnessy By Marissa Hall, Mount student Just by looking at his cheery smile and flannel shirt, you may not have guessed that Kevin Shaughnessy is a scientist. From the beginning of…
Dietetics internship an experience of a lifetime for Mount student
Posted: 22 August 2017
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Mount student Emily Chan describes her time at Hope Blooms as the best life experience imaginable.
Bears, beavers, willow plants and statistics: Mount instructor’s journey from mountain top to classroom
Posted: 15 August 2017
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Meet Dr. Cecilia Alstrom-Rapaport By Emily Albert, Mount studentSome may not think that a PhD in plant breeding sounds very exciting, but the experiences Cecilia Alstrom-Rapaport has had as a result of just such a…
Lumpkin Road unveiled
Posted: 10 August 2017
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A message from Mount President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Mary Bluechardt: I am pleased to let you know that a new sign has been put up on the Mount campus marking Lumpkin Road, a street recently…
Thousands of youth headed to summer camp thanks to the vision of Mount alum David McKeage
Posted: 4 August 2017
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Keeping a promise to young people and their families Dave McKeage knows firsthand that good things come to those who wait. Thanks to McKeage’s patience, thousands of youngsters throughout Nova Scotia and across Canada each…
Documenting a once-in-a-lifetime journey
Posted: 31 July 2017
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Mount Child & Youth study faculty working with Indigenous youth sailing from Halifax to France aboard tall ship On Saturday, July 29, 2017, a special ceremony was held at the wikuom on the Mount campus…