Reduce, reuse, recycle…Regina
A team of University of Regina engineering graduates has combined high tech—artificial intelligence, GPS, and big data—with social marketing to solve a “wicked” waste problem: recycled materials that end up in landfill.
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Home, family and war
Two U of R students share the effects of war in their home countries on their lives and how a new fundraising priority, Project Resilience, will make a difference to students from lands of strife.
Life on the spectrum
Dave Plummer has realized incredible success since he graduated from the University of Regina’s computer science program in 1993. He has had a long and distinguished career at Microsoft and is the man behind the Window’s Task Manager. Three years ago he was diagnosed with autism and his perspectives changed forever.
Dearest Mom
Reflections by Daphne Bramham.
Paradise found
In 2012, yoga master, entrepreneur and U of R alumnus Janel Phillips and her husband left everything behind in Canada and headed for Panama. Their dream? To build a world class yoga and surf resort. Today, Sansara Resort is rated as one of the best wellness hotels on the globe by Condé Nast Traveller.
Holy moly it’s Rolli
In his early 20s, Charles Anderson BA’03, an aspiring children’s book writer, was looking for a catchy pen name that youngsters would remember. Before long, Rolli was born and now, the author, cartoonist and songwriter is enjoying unprecedented success.
Making it Count
This past November proved a momentous one for Tara Clemett (BAdmin ’98), when she was appointed Saskatchewan’s Provincial Auditor after serving as Acting Provincial Auditor since July. Originally from a farm near Hodgeville, Saskatchewan, Clemett moved to Regina with her family in 1990, first attending Campbell Collegiate, and then the University of Regina with a […]
Roads less travelled
On the day Chris Lane was to receive his degree from the University of Regina – which, coincidentally, was also his 22nd birthday – he boarded a plane bound for London, England. Lane had received a prestigious scholarship that offered him international experience in journalism, and he was determined to make the most of the […]
Latoya Reid BSW’18, MSW’21
Latoya, a registered social worker, is a community activist and leader who has focused her advocacy around one of today’s most important issues – anti-racism. During the Black Lives Matter movement, Latoya’s outspoken comments gained her media attention and provided a platform for her to speak on the issue to, among other groups, University of […]
Honourable Graeme Michell BA’75, BMus’75
Appointed by the Government of Canada as a judge of Her Majesty’s Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan in September 2018, Graeme previously served as Vice-Chairperson of the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board, and before that as, Director of the Constitutional Law Branch of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice. In addition to his Bachelor of Arts […]