Women's Rugby 7s comes to Kings! Under the guidance of first year Head Coach Eilish Redshaw, the UKC Women’s Rugby team will take on a new challenge: rugby sevens. The Blue Devils, along with Dalhousie (Halifax and Agricultural campuses) and University of New Brunswick Saint John (UNBSJ), will take part in the inaugural season. The…
From August 7–10, dozens of academics from around the world traveled to King’s campus for the Circulating Knowledge: 20 Years On conference. During those four days, scholars attended presentations, conversed and socialized at an event that was brought together by the herculean effort of the organizing staff and faculty—in particular, Megan Krempa, BA(Hons)’22, Associate Professor…
The Blue Devils are thrilled to announce the addition of Breagh Powell to the women’s volleyball team. Standing at 6’0, Powell brings an impressive presence as an outside hitter to the Blue Devils lineup. A native of Fall River, NS, Powell is coming to the Blue Devils from Acadia where she already distinguished herself in…
Dear King’s community, Over the last two months, a group of King’s students called "King’s Students in Solidarity with Palestine" has issued several versions of online demands addressed to the university. We have responded to them, including in a meeting on May 17. After that meeting a number of the demands initially made by the…
Dear King's community, As many of you will have already noticed, last week Rideau Hall announced the names of those Canadians of distinction to have been most recently made members of the Order of Canada. If you did, you already know that Inglis Professor Sylvia D. Hamilton is now an OC as well as being…
Each month, we ask a member of faculty to tell us about one book that played an outsized role in making them who they are today. For our final Words to Live By before the newsletter hiatus, we chat with Tim Clarke, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Student Support (FYP), about a book he…
As a first-generation student from Windsor, Ontario, Nick Harris, BA(Hons)’22, remembers a time he couldn’t imagine finishing high school, let alone going to university. Coming from a working-class family, and having contended with a long-term disability in high school, a university education wasn’t in the cards for him. His family didn’t have the finances to…
Douglas Ruck, KC, Chair of the Board of Governors, opened the 234th Encaenia at the University of King’s College by reciting a quote by poet Maya Angelou. “Do the best you can until you know better,” urged Ruck, BA’72, to the graduands, dressed in long robes and hoods. “Then when you know better, do better.”…
King's Women's Volleyball has completed the signing of Olivia Coakley, bolstering the roster ahead of the 2024-25 season. A 6-foot (183 cm) setter, Coakley is a Halifax native, representing Halifax West High School in the Halifax Metro High School Athletic Association. The Halifax West Warriors went undefeated in the 2023-24 season, finishing first at the…