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King’s media releases by year

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2026

• King’s to Honour Inglis Professor Stephen Kimber and Community Leader Russell Grosse at Installation Ceremony for President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Timothy Vine (September 29)
• King’s and CIM | Chartered Managers Canada create new pathway to recognize the management skills of liberal arts graduates in Nova Scotia (September 23)
• King’s Appoints Expert Board to Advise on a New Centre for Excellence in Podcasting and Audio Storytelling (September 21)
• King’s Revamps its Four-Year Undergraduate Journalism Degree to Meet Rapid Changes in the Journalism and Media Landscape (September 17)
• Dr. Jennifer Fraser named inaugural Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity at King’s and Dalhousie (August 20)
• Welcoming: The Future King’s campaign raises $16.2 million, exceeding the goal of $15 million for continuing excellence and a more inclusive community at King’s (June 30)
• Gift to the Future King’s Campaign launches next design phase for the Southeast Corner Project (May 6)
• Dr. Timothy Vine Named Next President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of King’s College (April 29)
• Wanda Taylor appointed Rogers Chair in Journalism for King’s School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing (April 17)
• Gifts to the Future King’s Campaign create new initiatives in Scripted Storytelling and Podcasting at King’s (April 16)
• King’s honours former Board Chair, lawyer and human rights advocate Douglas Ruck, Mi’kmaw leader and educator Ann Sylliboy and retired Athletics Director Neil Hooper (April 6)
• King’s and Dalhousie relaunch joint journalism-law degree program to help prepare graduates for a rapidly changing information landscape (March 23)

2025

• University of King’s College Unveils Design for One of the Largest Campus Renewals in its History (November 18)
• King’s panel explores the relationship between journalism and government (October 23)
• King’s Launches African Nova Scotian Journalism Initiative (June 23)
• King’s to host award-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe on June 24 (June 17)
• Stephanie McGrath named Chair of King’s Board of Governors (June 13)
• King’s to award honorary degrees to former Premier of Nova Scotia Darrell Dexter and esteemed classics scholar Emily Wilson (Apr. 14)
• AMS Healthcare and the J & W Murphy Foundation give $3.5 million to establish the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity at King’s and Dalhousie (Mar. 12)
• The Joyce Family Foundation gifts $1 million to fund a new bursary at King’s (Jan. 24)

2024

• Public Launch of Welcoming: The Future King’s—a $15-million campaign (Nov. 22)
• King’s awards new building design to Diamond Schmitt Architects in association with Abbott Brown (Sep. 26)
• Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield Appointed Centennial Carnegie Chair in the History of Slavery in Canada (Sep. 9)
• King’s to honour investigative reporter Connie Walker and visionary coach Bev Greenlaw (Apr. 4)
• King’s introduces Indigenous Peoples and Media as a pillar of its strategy to offer journalism education for the 21st century (Mar. 12)

2023

• King’s among first Nova Scotia universities to sign the “Can’t Buy My Silence” pledge (Dec. 7)
• King’s and the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia announce new collaboration (Oct. 18)
• King’s and Dalhousie announce the Centennial Carnegie Appointment in the History of Slavery (Oct. 17)
• Trailblazing African Nova Scotian Gordon Sinclair Earle honoured with renamed King’s scholarship (Sept. 11)
• A $1 million gift from Chancellor Deane Little and Robert Little launches southeast corner project (Sept. 6)
• USS Conference Organizers Recognize Emancipation Day (Aug. 1)
• University of King’s College launches testing phase of Books by Heart, a communal bibliotherapy digital book program for use in hospital settings (Jun. 14)
• King’s celebrates MOU with The PREP Academy to engage and support African Nova Scotian students (Jun. 7)
• Honouring two exceptional women at King’s 233 Encaenia (Mar. 22)
• Dr. John Bragg’s $300,000 gift to the University of King’s College creates new MFA scholarship and guarantees Sylvia D. Hamilton Award (Feb. 28)
• Keynote speakers announced for 2023 Universities Studying Slavery Conference (Feb. 21)
• “Kwe’ Eskasoni” wins Gold at the 2022 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (Feb. 17)
• The F. Murray Fraser QC Scholarship paves the way for graduates of King’s Foundation Year Program to study law at the University of Calgary (Jan. 11)
• Dr. Gillian Turnbull named inaugural Director of Writing & Publishing (Jan. 10)

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