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Announcing the 2023 Alumni Award recipients

Supporting single mothers with a wraparound approach

Q and A with Sara J. Cumming (PhD ’14 Sociology), Executive Director of Home Suite Hope, award-winning professor, and the 2023 Rising Star Alumni Award recipient. 

Q&A with Chris Williams, Sept 26

Join a special online event with Chris Williams, (BA ’91 Fine Arts) Academy Award-winning animator, film director, screenwriter, and the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award recipient. 

A future for humanity

Dean Sheila Ager shares the 2023-30 Arts Strategic Plan and its emphasis on social impact through our scholarship, teaching and learning for all.

Learn more about the Arts Strategic Plan

Sheila Ager with a lake and mountains in the background

Features

Jay Haven wearing a large, beaded medallion as part of his Indigenous heritage

In a spirit of reciprocity, reconciliation, and collaboration

This spring, Professor Jay Havens (Communication Arts), presented a Two-Row Wampum belt to his department as a living contract and agreement between Havens as a new faculty member, and the University.

The future of AI is interdisciplinary

Dr. Lai-Tze Fan (Sociology and Legal Studies) wants to make a more equitable AI. As CRC in Technology and Social Change, she’s working to enhance equity, diversity and inclusion in AI design and improve technological literacy.

Dillion Browne on the Beyond the Bulletin podcast

A sense of belonging is key to healing from trauma

The attack that took place on our campus this summer shook our entire community. In this podcast, Dr. Dillon Browne (Psychology) tells us how we can support each other and ourselves.