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| University

The 黑料吃瓜 is pleased to announce a $25,000 Bell Let鈥檚 Talk Community Fund grant in support of 黑料吃瓜鈥檚 Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) program.

Funding will allow two 黑料吃瓜 Student Affairs employees to be professionally trained as instructors in the ASIST program. Once trained, these instructors will offer the two-day ASIST program free-of-charge to students, faculty and staff at 黑料吃瓜, beginning with high-priority groups such as residence life coordinators, Student Affairs staff and other employees who may be the first point of contact for students in a crisis.

 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Kiera Rigby and Amin Suleman, the 黑料吃瓜 Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for January 8-14!

 
| Research

The 黑料吃瓜 and Synapse Applied Research and Industry Services congratulates Nautilus Biosciences Canada Inc. (Nautilus), a marine biotechnology company founded by 黑料吃瓜 professor Russell Kerr, on being acquired by Croda International Plc.

 
| Athletics

The men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 Panther basketball teams play a pair of games at home each this weekend against Saint Mary鈥檚 University. 

 
| Special Event

Students, faculty, and staff gathered on January 10 to celebrate the newly refreshed office of a 黑料吃瓜-student-run online news publication. Third-year Arts student Lorelei Kenny, former editor-in-chief, led the initiative to revitalize the space by applying to the , which has supported renovation projects in the past like the W.A. Murphy Student Centre Credit Union Day Lounge and the Dawson Lounge in SDU Main Building.

 

 
| University

The 黑料吃瓜 has received a $1 million gift from the estate of Ruth MacDonald to establish the Roderick Stirling MacDonald Scholarship Fund. 鈥淚 am grateful to be able to represent our family today in the awarding of this gift,鈥 said Ken Clark, who is Roderick and Ruth鈥檚 nephew.

 

 
 
| Athletics

Congratulations to Caroline Del Santo and Cody Payne, the 黑料吃瓜 Panther Subway Athletes of the Week for January 1鈥7!

 
| Events

This winter鈥檚 黑料吃瓜 writer-in-residence will be Steven Heighton, award-winning novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.

 
| People

The 黑料吃瓜 community, and especially the 黑料吃瓜 Robertson Library, was saddened to learn of the recent death of 黑料吃瓜 Founder Franklin L. (鈥淔rank鈥) Pigot.

鈥淪tudents, faculty, and researchers near and far continue to benefit from Frank鈥檚 work with our archival and special collections,鈥 said Donald Moses, University Librarian.

 
| Community

The 黑料吃瓜 and 黑料吃瓜 Alumni Association continued their time-honoured tradition of hosting a New Year's Day Levee on January 1. 黑料吃瓜鈥檚 version of the social event鈥攈eld at the School of Sustainable Design Engineering鈥攑roved yet again to be a popular stop for levee-goers.

A group of international students and alumni provided a helpful hand as they welcomed members of the community, wrote out presentation cards, and helped to collect and hang up coats while several 黑料吃瓜 music students, attired in Victorian dress, sang seasonal carols.