On November 27, 2013 students in Dr. Stephen Connor’s third-year history course, Indochina at War, 1940-1975, had an opportunity to speak with a witness to history, Major Hoi B. Tran. Speaking from his home in California, Major Tran engaged with Nipissing students and answered questions for over an hour, recalling his own personal story of life and conflict in Vietnam.
Nipissing University recently hosted the Lake Nipissing Research Conference, an opportunity to share ongoing research in the watershed and develop a strategic research plan for the lake. The conference grew out of, and will inform the Lake Nipissing Summit, which has been held each spring for the past three years.
Nipissing’s Award Winners Speaker Series heads to Iran on November 19, at 7 p.m. in the Harris Learning Library with Dr. Amir Erfani’s talk: Reversing population policy in Iran: Does curbing family planning programs raise fertility rates?
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian McCann, assistant professor in the department of Religions and Cultures, on winning a 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit for her book Vanguard of the New Age: The Toronto Theosophical Society 1891-1945.