March 18, 2025

The Red Triangle Award, which honours long-standing volunteer service, will be presented to Janet Thompson-Price (BBA'96, LLB'99), while the Leader to Watch Award, recognizing an emerging leader, will be awarded to Cameron Keyes (MSc'24). The awards will be formally presented at the 35th Annual Red Triangle Awards Gala on April 23.

March 17, 2025

In the heart of New Brunswick's potato belt, Dr. Stuart Lockhart (C-INI/BPhil'09) is ready and willing to reform the delivery of family medicine has been assured the province is "just on the edge" of providing the money and other supports to get collaborative care off the ground.

March 14, 2025

Kevin Wilcox (BScME'06, D-TME'08, PhD'11), a research scientist with UNB's Ocean Mapping Group, is among a group of 15 researchers who have been gathering data for the last two weeks as part of the first all-Canadian Antarctic mission.

March 13, 2025

Anne Murray's (BPE'66, DLitt'78) impact on music will be celebrated at this year's Junos with a lifetime achievement award. Organizers say the East Coast music legend becomes the first artist to get the top honour since its creation in 1989, the year Canadian content champion and Juno namesake Pierre Juneau was its inaugural recipient. Anne holds the most Junos of any performer with 25 career wins.

March 7, 2025

Barbara Walls (BN'85, MEd'93) was recently presented with the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her significant contributions to lung health in Canada. Barbara made significant contributions to the lives of New Brunswickers living with lung disease during her 15-year tenure at NBLung. She created a lung transplant support group, asthma camps for children and educational materials for schools as well supporting anti-vaping legislation and a needs-based C-PAP program. 

February 19, 2025

The Globe and Mail consults with Amina Djirdeh (BBA'09), founder of DEI consulting firm Global Mastery Partners, about doing a diversity audit in an organization, including how to take action on data collected.

February 16, 2025

The new TNB production, O'Brien, set in Saint John in 1914, and now touring the province, was written by UNB English grad Thomas Hodd (MA'96). The O'Brien family are a third-generation Irish family forced to confront the real-world turmoil of social and labour unrest in Saint John, on the eve of the First World War.

January 24, 2025

As he waited at a gate to enter the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony in 2022, Troy Ryan's (C-LS/BIS'19) mind flashed back to the people who helped him get here. Troy will lead the Canadian women's team into another Olympics in 2026, this time in Milano-Cortina, Italy.

January 14, 2025

Ron (BSc.GEOL'65) and Erma (BA'66) Hawkes grew up with music and have maintained music as an important family fundamental as they moved from Canada to Australia, and returned to Fredericton upon their semi-retirement. Now they are helping to ensure New Brunswickers will enjoy music and live performance for generations to come through a gift of $3.5 million to the performing arts centre in Fredericton.

January 10, 2025

Cayman Grant (BBA'01), a St. Martins, NB native, is hunkering down with her family in Los Angeles as fires in the region continue to threaten her home. Cayman, a TV and film director who now lives in L.A., said her home is in-between several active fires, including one in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood.

January 6, 2025

Gail Farnsworth (BA'88) received the Wilf Torunski Good Samaritan Award from Ability New Brunswick. The eponymous award, inspired by another UNB alum, Wilf Torunski (BSF'73), acknowledges acts of "service above self" that impact the lives of a person or persons with a mobility disability in a positive way.

December 24, 2024

Yuhuai (Tony) Wu (BSc'15) previously worked at Google and Google DeepMind and spent a few months as a research scientist intern at OpenAI. He also spent over a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Wu said in the 2023 X Spaces livestream that his dream has been to tackle the most difficult problems in mathematics and AI. He has also coauthored a number of research papers on machine learning and large language models.

August 30, 2024

Alexandre Hayward (BSE.ME'23) made a spectacular olympic debut, winning bronze in the 3,000-metre individual pursuits in Para cycling action at the 2024 Paralympic Games.

It was the first career Paralympic Games race for Hayward, from Quispamsis, N.B., who has rocketed up the international rankings since his national team debut in 2022.

Read more - Canadian Paralympic Committee

July 22, 2024

Dr. Ken Holyoke (BA'08, MA'12) and Dr. Gabriel Hrynick (MA'11), hosts of the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast (NBAP), won the 2024 Public Commumincations Award from the Canadian Archaeological Association.

Read more - Lethbridge News Now

May 13, 2024

Atlantic Business Magazine's 2024 Top 50 CEO Awards were recently announced, and 10 UNB alumni and alumni of the UNB Wallace McCain Institute's (WMI) Entrepreneurial Leaders Program (ELP) made the prestigious list:

Sascha Boulet-Devost (BScKin'09), ELP11Th
Tanya Chapman (Class of '11, MBA'12)
John Flewelling (BScEng'91)
Rosalyn Hyslop, ELP11Th
Kevin Kiley (LLB'93)
Dr. Erik Klein (Class of '97)
Alan Norman, ELP15 (and Jerrica Kennedy)
Dr. Lesley Steele (BSc'94), ELP7
Matt Symes (BA/BEd'04)
Lori Weir, ELP11F

May 3, 2024

Potential, led by CEO and co-founder Sam Poirier (BScME'19, M-TME'19), has secured an additional Canadian $2 million in funding to further commercialize its technology. This builds on two previous seed round commitments, for a total of $8.5M raised since May 2020.