Acclaimed Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) journalist Jordan Breen, BA’09, a King’s alum who died last year at age 38, is being honoured with a sports journalism award at his alma mater. The Jordan Breen Award for Sports Reporting is worth $1,000 a year and recognizes an outstanding sports media project created by a King’s journalism…
The University of King’s College and Dalhousie University have appointed Dr. Jennifer Fraser to a new chair in the medical humanities: the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. This tenure-track position is dedicated to research and teaching at the intersection of the history of medicine, bioethics and health equity. Dr. Fraser is…
Giancarlo Cininni and Antonia Zwissler take a slow and steady approach to doomsday shelter story When news broke that a Cold War bunker in Debert, N.S., was being converted into a luxury nuclear fallout shelter, national news outlets reported it and moved on. Giancarlo Cininni, BJ(Hons)’24, and Antonia Zwissler, BJ(Hons)’25, stuck with it for months, and…
“My conversation with myself was, when had I ever waited for permission to do something I wanted to do? And the answer was never.” Fay Martin never wanted to write a memoir. “I thought, ‘Oh that’s what famous people [write] and all they do is drop a bunch of names,’” she says. Since her husband Michael’s…
When the acceptance letters go out and the bags get packed, every incoming student gets a variation of the same sentiment from the supporters in their life: “University is going to be so different.” But how different can it really be? To give you a real scoop, recent graduates share the advice they wish they’d…
“We are not our work, and that applies to mothering as much as it applies to how well an article or a book does, because we are so much more than our output.” A decade after Stacey May Fowles, MFA’15, finished her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, she has emerged a more self-compassionate, even happier and healthier version of…
Dear King’s community, Today, I am delighted to officially join the King’s community as its 26th President. It’s a privilege to be part of this community, and I thank you for the welcome I, my wife Crystal, our young son, and our two dogs (Mackie and Poppy) have received. In the lead-up to officially taking…
You’ve done it! First year is over. But as you said tearful goodbyes to your friends and walked through the Quad fantasizing about being able to shower without shoes on, you may have been left feeling adrift. What comes after? Where do you go from here? You aren’t alone in asking these questions; nearly every first-year student before you has felt this…
Living on campus this academic year? At King’s, you’ll quickly find yourself at home in one of the stone residence buildings nestled around the college’s Quad. Our residence accommodations are largely made up of double rooms with a limited number of single rooms available. Generally, our single rooms are reserved for upper-year students and those…
