2017 NU News

Short is an outstanding student who balances academics and community involvement with ease. While maintaining a high academic standing, he helped other students as a teaching assistant in the microbiology course, started cutting-edge research in the organic chemistry lab, and founded the first Nipissing University Ice Fishing Club.

Dr. Kirsten Greer, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies and assistant professor of Geography and History, recently led a research team to the American Society of Environmental Historians Conference (ASEH) in Chicago and to the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Boston.

Nipissing University’s psychology speaker series welcomes Dr. Shinobu Kitayama, of the department of psychology at the University of Michigan, to campus for a lecture titled Cultural Neuroscience: Why we need it, on Friday, April 7 at 1 p.m. in room H105.

Gillard is an accomplished student who takes on multiple academic and social leadership roles on and off campus. These roles include: outreach assistant for sexual violence prevention; president, social coordinator for the social welfare and social development club, and research assistant. Gillard is also an active community volunteer at One Kids Place, Community Living, and the Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre. In all of these roles, she is an outgoing and thoughtful student leader.