The Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) is contributing $420,000 to enhance the field experience of students and staff at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador.
On Thursday, May 16, Memorial University and the Shorefast Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding. The signing is the initial step in a pilot project, administered by Memorial’s Office of Public Engagement.
Memorial to continue credit card payments for student fees
Memorial University expects to save about $550,000 by eliminating fees paid to credit card companies while still allowing students the flexibility of paying their student account fees with Visa or MasterCard should they so choose.
Crosbie scholarship to award independent thinking
Starting in September 2013, graduate student Vahid Jafarzadehdarzi will be the first recipient of the newly-created Crosbie Doctoral Scholarship in Philosophy. Valued at $15,000 and renewable for up to four years, the scholarship will be awarded annually to a full-time student in the new PhD program in philosophy.
‘The face of French learning’
Being a successful student has quite literally transformed Scott Tobin’s life. Growing up in Kippens on the island’s west coast, Mr. Tobin entered Memorial’s Faculty of Arts with the security provided by the $20,000 Poole Family scholarship and confident in his choice of French as a major.
'I am the variable'
Kayla Carroll might be a small-town girl but she’s definitely not living in a lonely world. The native of St. Lunaire-Griquet (approximate population 700) on the Northern Peninsula is a networker extraordinaire.
