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King’s media releases by year

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2025

• King’s Launches African Nova Scotian Journalism Initiative (June 23)
• 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)

2022

• King’s and MSVU welcome first Auntie in Residence (Nov. 23)
• University of King’s College launches cohort initiative for Mi’kmaw journalism students (Sept. 8)
• Mitacs and King’s joining forces to support social sciences and humanities research (Aug. 16)
• King’s School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing (Jul. 19)
• New Global News Scholarship to be awarded in September 2022 (Jan. 31)

2021

• Nick Harris Announced as King’s 33rd Rhodes Scholar (Nov. 22)
• Professor Sir Hilary Beckles to deliver keynote lecture at November 1 pre-conference event for 2023 Universities Studying Slavery Conference (Oct. 27)
• The University of King’s College Announces the Launch of King’s Experiential Learning Program (KELP) (Oct. 20)
• Dalhousie University and University of King’s College to host first international Universities Studying Slavery Conference in Canada (July 13)
• William Lahey reappointed as President and Vice-Chancellor (Jan. 14)

2020

• King’s honours recently retired professor Sylvia D. Hamilton with five new annual awards for Black students (Oct. 28)
• King’s Chancellor Debra Deane Little and Robert Little give $2 million to the University of King’s College (Oct. 7)
• King’s appoints Debra Deane Little as its 15th Chancellor (Feb.24)
• King’s and Global News announce creation of new scholarship (Jan. 25)

2019

• CCAA names King’s Neil Hooper the Athletic Director of the Year (June 12)
• Youth coming to King’s this summer to consider the role fear plays in setting political agendas (May 16)
• King’s announces shortlist for Penguin Random House Canada MFA Prize for best nonfiction writing (Apr. 24)
• King’s awarding honorary doctorates to Dale Godsoe, Lawrence Hill and Bruce Gordon (Apr. 23)
• Significant new scholarships will help support dozens of scholar-athletes at King’s (Feb. 7)
• Medical historian discusses controversial Canadian-led expedition to Easter Island at King’s (Jan. 11)

2018

• King’s joins collaboration of Canadian journalism schools (Nov. 26)
• University of Calgary provisionally pre-admits King’s Foundation Year Program students into its law school (Nov. 16)
• King’s announces new non-fiction writing prize for MFA students (Nov. 13)
• Armbrae Dialogue at King’s will examine The Nature of Truth (Nov. 7)
• King’s announces re-establishment of Prince Scholarship for African-Nova Scotian students (Oct. 24)
• Hear the Newest Voices in Canadian Nonfiction (Aug. 9)
• King’s hosting its largest-ever MFA in creative nonfiction summer residency (Aug. 1)
• King’s Writer in Residence author Daemon Fairless talks about craft of creative nonfiction writing (Aug. 1)
• King’s hires first mentor apprentice to address under-representation from marginalized communities (July 19)
• Writers Lawrence Hill and Doug Saunders to discuss migration at public symposium (July 4)
• It’s a homecoming for Chad Wadden, who returns to King’s as head basketball coach (May 17)
• Young people to examine what migration means for Canada at King’s summer humanities program (Apr. 12)
• University of King’s College Announces Encaenia 2018 Honorary Degree Recipients (Apr. 3)
• Douglas Ruck, BA’72, QC, succeeds Dale Godsoe, CM, as chair of King’s Board of Governors (Mar. 23)
• Youth Art Connection & King’s partner to help young artists launch social enterprises (Mar. 16)
• Scholarly inquiry to examine King’s possible colonial links to slavery (Feb. 12)
• King’s Lecture Series examines history, issues & future of humans & artificial intelligence (Jan. 4)

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