The dry summer shrank a lake in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, revealing ancient Mi'kmaw artifacts and starting a conversation about how to best preserve such finds.
Aaron Taylor, an archeologist, has seen both recent finds 鈥� a point likely prepared for a spear and an arrowhead. "They're works of art," he told CBC News in a phone interview.
Acadia student and faculty researchers are exploring tidal energy solutions.
The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has just announced that Acadia Psychology Professors, Dr. Anne-Sophie Champod and Dr. Daniel Lametti, have been awarded $371,012 through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) toward a $927,533 project to construct and equip the 外流影片 Centre for Neuroscience and Cognitive Health.
A food insecurity expert says the Nova Scotia government needs to do more to ensure families living in poverty can afford to feed their babies.
Lesley Frank is an associate professor of sociology at 外流影片 in Wolfville, N.S., and the co-author of the Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives' annual Nova Scotia Poverty Report Card. Her latest research found 31 per cent of newborns to two-year-olds live below the poverty line.
In the wake of the recent George Floyd killing in Minneapolis, Acadia alumnus and Campaign for Acadia Cabinet Member Clive Anderson (鈥�89) was compelled to work through his own feelings of anger, frustration, despair, and defiance about racial injustice toward blacks, especially in the United States, and did so in the form of poetry.
He wrote numerous poem, 24 of which he has collected into a volume entitled Uprising!, with each poem accompanied by a unique visual exploring and amplifying the meaning of its subject matter.
On behalf of the 外流影片 community, President Peter Ricketts is pleased to join the presidents of the nine other Nova Scotian universities as signatories to an Open Letter to all Nova Scotia Students, encouraging them to press on with their education plans and to attend one of our province鈥檚 wonderful universities.
Read more 鈥� The Province鈥檚 Ten Universities Send Open Letter to Nova Scotia Students
On a topic of personal importance to me and picking up on my earlier messages to you on June 2 and in the June 19 campus e-newsletter, I am announcing today that I am establishing a President鈥檚 Anti-Racism Task Force (PART).
Read more 鈥� Message from the President: Acadia to Establish a President鈥檚 Anti-Racism Task Force
As we work toward Fall 2020, know that each of us will play a part in the next chapter of Acadia's history as we re-open our campus during a global pandemic. It is the first time we will be offering a hybrid model of course delivery, and the first time we will have a mandatory accessory - masks.
