I would like to begin by offering my congratulations to our newest graduates who are set to receive their degrees, certificates, and diplomas at Spring Convocation ceremonies on June 14, 15, and 16. The ceremonies will be held in the Centre for Kinesiology and Health Studies’ Gym 3 on the University’s main campus. One of […]
Gloria Mehlmann loves the U of R mainly because of the value she places on education. Access to a good education is a theme that runs through Mehlmann’s life story. She grew up on the Cowessess First Nation and first attended a day school located on the nearby Kahkewistahaw First Nation, completing her Grade 8 […]
Honorary Degree recipient
So how did UR Press get to where it is today? Fifty years ago, in 1973, the University of Saskatchewan (Regina Campus) established its original academic press – the Canadian Plains Research Centre (CPRC) Publication Division. Over the course of its history, CPRC focused on publishing research and stories about the Great Plains. The Press […]
Jon Heese – a Saskatchewan expatriate who is now a member of a prefectural legislature in Japan – readily embraces the suggestion that he is an outsider, noting that when he was a child his family moved around a lot, and he became comfortable making new friends all the time. “I spent some of my […]
Bring our young people back! That’s been a Saskatchewan mantra for years, as politicians and business leaders decry the out-migration of some of our best and brightest young people. It used to be that rising tech superstars who aspire to be the next Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos had to pack up their bags and […]
The George F. Ledingham Herbarium and its collection of specimens—some 70,000 dried plants, flowers, mosses and lichen—has been a gem of the University’s biology department for decades, but regrettably it remains relatively unknown to the outside world. That is about to change. Mel Hart, associate dean of Science: Student experience and engagement, is happy it […]
Celebrated Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe BEd’78, S.O.M., O.C. is the author of six novels and four collections of short stories, and has been the recipient of many awards, including the Governor General’s Award (three times), the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, and is an Officer […]
Access Communications’ new CEO comes to the role following a 20-year history with the not-for-profit, community-owned co-operative. Before taking the wheel last November, Carmela Haines BAdmin’92 had been involved in just about every aspect of the organization, assuming a wide swath of executive responsibilities, as well as everything from purchasing to fleet management. She talks […]
