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Media Releases

| Community

The 17³Ô¹Ï Nursing Student Society held a teddy bear clinic for children in the Campus Kids Daycare Centre’s kindergarten class on March 17.

| People

Entrepreneur Daniel Ohaegbu arrived on Prince Edward Island in 2014 as an international student from Nigeria. He graduated from 17³Ô¹Ï in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree and again in 2019 with a BSc with Honours in Psychology. His journey of discovery laid the foundation for his work in the not-for-profit sector and ultimately inspired him to create the social enterprise, WorkSource Alliance. 
 

| Atlantic Veterinary College

The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) dairy veterinary team completed another successful trip to Meru County, Kenya, where the team conducted three walk-in clinics for cattle.

| Special Event

Dr. Wendy Rodgers, 17³Ô¹Ï President and Vice-Chancellor, invites all students to submit their ideas for actions that 17³Ô¹Ï and its community members can take quickly and easily to enhance our environmental sustainability on campus. 

| Athletics

The 17³Ô¹Ï Men’s Basketball Panthers come into the Indochino U SPORTS Final 8 Championship fresh off their first Atlantic University Sport (AUS) title in 22 years. Their quarter-final game will be played against host UBC at midnight (ADT) at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia and is available to watch on .

| Events

The Institute of Island Studies, 17³Ô¹Ï, will present a talk by Heidi Haering on Tuesday, March 18, at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building 201.

| Special Event

17³Ô¹Ï students who speak beginner-level Korean are invited to participate in a Korean speech contest on March 21, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building 201. First prize is a $700 scholarship; second, $500; and third, $300. 

| Academics

Earlier this year, the 17³Ô¹Ï Clinical Learning and Simulation Centre (CLSC), in collaboration with the 17³Ô¹Ï faculties of Medicine and Nursing, hosted an engaging interprofessional event to produce video content for the Sim FUNdamentals Facilitator program.

| Community

17³Ô¹Ï’s Office of Student Culture and Community Standards is calling all Panthers, including students, staff, and faculty members, to celebrate the 17³Ô¹Ï Women's Basketball and 17³Ô¹Ï Men's Basketball teams’ success on March 7. 

| People

Dr. Jessica Strong, an assistant professor of psychology, was profiled by the Canadian Psychological Association during Psychology Month.