The Grad Building elevator will be out of service for up to 1 week, beginning Thursday, February 27.
If you need assistance carrying larger/heavier items to your floor, please connect with Student and Guest Services during business hours. If the desk is closed, please email to make arrangements for the following business day.
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St. Paul’s University College is pleased to announce that political scientist Richard Myers has been appointed Principal for a five-year term as of July 2016.
Five St. Paul’s GreenHouse ventures received grants to develop their socially minded products and services at the most recent GreenHouse Social Impact Showcase.
After several years of consultations with students and stakeholders about the need for more community space at St. Paul’s, spades hit the dirt yesterday in a much-anticipated ceremonial groundbreaking.
Mechanical Engineering student Richard Yim, who started in the St. Paul’s GreenHouse program last fall and will be a GreenHouse Fellow in the spring term, won a total of $35,000 for his landmine defusing venture this week.
The Big Ideas Challenge for Social Good went big this year and awarded 10 fellowships to aspiring social entrepreneurs: Five in a ‘People and Wellbeing’ category, and five in a ‘People and Planet’ category.
The competition, which was organized by St. Paul’s GreenHouse, had a circus tent theme. Director Tania Del Matto said that’s because GreenHouse seeks to “expand the tent of youth-led social innovation and entrepreneurship as a pathway for young people to build the business and career skills they need to be problem solvers and leaders.”
Above: Trishala Pillai, Elle Crevits, Benny Hua, Rachel Thompson, and Richard Yim
Five social innovators from St. Paul’s GreenHouse had the opportunity to speak at the premier global social entrepreneurship conference last week – the Ashoka U Exchange, hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans this year.
St. Paul’s student Kaitlin Murray (fourth-year International Development) is the recipient of a Mitacs Globalink Research grant, worth $5,000, which will allow her to work with a non-governmental organization called NIRMAN in India this term. Mitacs is an internationally known Canadian not-for-profit organization that supports research, training, and social innovation.
The University of Waterloo’s course in Aboriginal studies (“Issues in Contemporary Native Communities”) saw a whopping 400 percent increase in student enrolment this term – something that may reflect a broader societal interest in Aboriginal culture and communities, says Graham Brown, Principal of St. Paul’s University College, where the course is taught.
Above: Richard Yim, Rhea Daniels, and Trishala Pillai
St. Paul’s GreenHouse received $47,000 from the Libro Prosperity Fund today to launch a fellowship program that will provide up to 10 young entrepreneurs with residence in the GreenHouse program in the spring term.