Happy New Year and welcome back from UKC Athletics! Second semester sports are already underway. Men's and Women's basketball and women's volleyball were all at home for a triple-header to begin 2020. Here the results from the first matches of the New Year...
Two faculty members, Sylvia Hamilton of King’s Journalism School and Inglis Professor Dr. Shirley Tillotson, have been awarded 2019 Governor General’s history awards. King’s Associate Professor of Journalism and Rogers Chair in Communication, Sylvia Hamilton, will receive the 2019 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media (Pierre Berton Award).
Feminism, hallucinogenic honey, alien-goddess worshipping and a lot of laughter make up King's alumna Evany Rosen's, BA(Hons)'10, latest project. It's as clever as it is ridiculous. Rosen is the co-creator of the hilarious new TV series New Eden: a true-crime mockumentary about an all-female cult in 1970s British Columbia, which quickly implodes due to the…
Before he arrived at King's, Ata Zargarpour says he was feeling a little lost. "I really had no idea what I wanted to do, and why I should be doing it," he said. The Vancouverite had taken two years off between high school and post-secondary school to figure things out. "I became kind of disillusioned…
King's students and staff made headlines this year. There are many unforgettable moments over the past year, but here are eight of our biggest stories in 2019.
Facilities Management has conducted water tests in all major buildings on campus. The results for all of the tests were within the acceptable ranges of the Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines for microbiology and metals, including lead. If you would like more information on drinking water, including information on lead, please visit the following links: NS…
Read MoreHi! We’re Andrew and Josh, two of King’s road warriors/recruiters. Over the last few months, the two of us have gone to over 100 towns and cities in six provinces, visited well over 100 high schools both large and small, drank an incalculable amount of coffee, and met approximately 4 trillion students trying to figure…
“In Nova Scotia, there are no homes for people with severe physical disabilities,” King’s alumna Jen Powley, BJ’01, MFA’15, said. “In Nova Scotia, the province simply puts them in nursing homes. That’s not adequate.”Powley, who authored the award-winning biography Just Jen: Living Through Multiple Sclerosis, founded the organization “No More Warehousing” has started an online…
Read MoreDec. 6, 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. On this day in 1989, 14 women were killed at École Polytechnique by a mass shooter with an anti-feminist agenda. These women were staff and students at the university and were specifically targeted by the mass shooter based on their gender. Since then, each…
