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<p>Marie Maltais, director at the University of New Brunswick Arts Centre, began her research on climate-related water issues nearly three years ago when she discovered what she was reading in news articles did not correlate to scientists&#8217; reports. The UNB Arts Centre began its newest initiative, H2O: An Ocean Of Science, on March 22. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With the end of the first online academic year coming to a close, The Aquinian’s news editor Hannah Rudderham checked in with the St. Thomas University Students’ Union executives to see if they’ve fulfilled their campaign promises from last year’s election. President – Sarah Kohut Her three main platform points were promoting a supportive environment, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is part three of a four-part series for Women’s History Month highlighting women in leadership roles at St. Thomas University. This week is about professors in social sciences. Next week will highlight staff members. Check out part two of this series about humanities professors here. Karla O&#8217;Regan (she/her) Karla O’Regan is a full-time professor [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When New Brunswick entered back into the yellow phase, New Brunswickers were no longer required to wear their masks in drive-thrus. Emily Beck, a first-year St. Thomas University student, has worked at Tim Hortons for nine months. She said they&#8217;ve had to take more precautions because of the ongoing pandemic. As the province moved through [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union hosted the vice-president education debate in advance of the by-election set for March 24, where students can vote through email. Sydona Chandon is the only candidate for STUSU’s vice-president education position. Vice-president education Chandon is a third-year student at STU from Jamaica. She is the former international student representative for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton transit bus pass St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president administration Matthew Oram said the two-year contract with Fredericton transit for the STUSU bus pass is coming to an end. A proposal for the new terms for the bus pass must be given to the city of Fredericton by Wednesday. The executive team recommended keeping [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After almost three years, St. Thomas University received approval for the master&#8217;s of social work program, STU’s first master&#8217;s program in its 111 years of existence. Jeffrey Carleton, associate vice-president of communications at STU, said when a university launches a degree, proposals have to be made first.  &#8220;It&#8217;s exciting for us to offer something that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is part two of a four-part series for Women’s History Month highlighting women in leadership roles at St. Thomas University. This week is about professors in humanities, next week features professors in the social sciences and the last week will highlight staff members. Check out part one of this series about student leaders here. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fifteen people gathered in James Dunn Hall at St. Thomas University on March 19 to celebrate the launch of Mi’kmaq Alphabet Book, a new children’s book by author and current STU student Shyla Augustine from Elsipogtog First Nation.  “I want to thank my kid and the children down at the [University of New Brunswick] Childhood [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s Students&#8217; Union spring election had a lower voter turnout than previous years. This year, the percentage of voters was 25.4 per cent compared to last year’s 36.2 per cent. There were 1,926 potential STU students who could’ve voted in this election but only 490 people cast their vote. Matthew Oram, STUSU&#8217;s vice-president [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the wake of fast-changing COVID-19 regulations, third-year St. Thomas University student Grace Schnyder is happy with the change to the yellow phase, but still has some reservations. Since Schnyder’s boyfriend moved to Saint John in January, restrictions kept them from seeing each other. “I keep the [COVID-19] infographic up on my laptop,” said Schnyder. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As vaccines begin to be distributed, only few have had the chance to receive one. Graydon Nicholas, a St. Thomas University professor from Tobique First Nation, and his wife received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on March 8. &#8220;It was quite an experience,&#8221; said Nicholas. Other than a sore left shoulder, where he received the shot, Nicholas [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Vice-president education nomination period open St. Thomas University Students’ Union president Sarah Kohut said the STUSU spring by-election nomination period for the vice-president education position opens today, March 15, and runs until March 17. The mandatory candidates meeting is on March 18 and the campaigning period will run from March 19 to 23 with voting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s Indigenous Students&#8217; Reconciliation Committee hosted Ivan Augustine for the second part of their four-week speaker series on March 11. Augustine, an Indian day school survivor, focused his presentation on Indian day schools and residential schools. Augustine, the director of education at Elsipogtog, said in an interview with The Aquinian after the event [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is part one of a four-part series for Women&#8217;s History Month highlighting women in leadership roles at St. Thomas University. This week is about student leaders, next week features professors in the humanities, the week after is about professors in the social sciences and the last week will highlight staff members.  Precious Obiora (she/her) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University announced shortly after noon today that the spring convocation will be virtual. Jeffrey Carleton, vice-president communications at STU, said while things with COVID-19 are improving and vaccines have begun roll-out, it was safer to do a virtual convocation. &#8220;We also thought it wasn&#8217;t fair to ask graduates to come back to Fredericton [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the race to immunize the population to protect them against COVID-19 takes off at lightning speed, this column looks to give New Brunswickers an important update on the fight against COVID-19 and the hope spreading across the globe, one vaccine at a time. More than 305 million doses of vaccines have been administered worldwide [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hanif Brown, the chief returning officer on the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union, held his MacBook while standing under the dimmed, red lights at The Cellar Pub. The results for the 2021-22 STUSU team were in and it was time to break the news. As Brown told the crowd to grab a drink, before grabbing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rigby Hall backyard.co event St. Thomas University Students’ Union president Sarah Kohut read Rigby Hall representative Jonah Simon’s report since he couldn’t be in attendance of the meeting. Simon’s report included an event planned for Rigby Hall residents on March 10 on backyard.co where winners of the different games will win a $15 gift card [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Correction: A previous version of this story stated that Chandon &#8220;said she may be sitting on the STUISA board next year. The Aquinian fact-checked this and Chandon would need to run for elections on STUISA to be elected.&#8221;  In fact, Chandon mentioned verbatim that &#8220;additionally, I&#8217;ll just be doing probably extracurricular activities, in terms of maybe [&hellip;]</p>