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Jul 12	Congratulations to Brianna Knox, Lakehead University’s Free First-Year Tuition winner (Thunder Bay) Brianna Knox of London, Ont., is excited to start her Lakehead journey this September after winning the University’s first-year free tuition draw.
Jul 9	Dr. Tarlok Sahota receives the Distinguished Agronomist Award (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Dr. Tarlok Sahota, Director of Lakehead University’s Agricultural Research Station, has won the Distinguished Agronomist Award given out annually by the Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA).
Jul 6	Psychology graduate students receive Best Poster Award from Canadian Psychological Association Student Section (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) A Canadian Psychological Association Best Poster Award (Student Section) was recently awarded to graduate student and faculty collaborators in the Department of Psychology.
Jul 5	Lakehead University’s Faculty of Business Administration granted extension of AACSB accreditation (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Lakehead University’s Faculty of Business Administration has had its AACSB accreditation extended for five years and it now includes both the Orillia and Thunder Bay campuses.
Jun 28	Legacy of Hope Waniskahtan Exhibit opening in August (Thunder Bay) The goal of the exhibit, which will be at the Thunder Bay Intercity Shopping Centre from Wednesday, August 4 to Wednesday, Aug. 18, is to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and hopefully prevent future violence.
Jun 25	Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law will offer new legal clinic services in September (Thunder Bay) The Thunder Bay Multicultural Association and Lakehead University's Bora Laskin Faculty of Law are partnering to offer new legal clinic services for immigration and refugee law in Northwestern Ontario, thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario's Access to Justice Fund.
Jun 25	The Long Journey Ahead (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Our Lakehead University community extends its deepest condolences to the Indigenous peoples of Canada in the wake of the Cowessess First Nation's discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan.
Jun 24	The Department of Health Sciences Spring/Summer Newsletter is now Out! (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) Read the June 2021 newsletter from the Department of Health Sciences
Jun 23	Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA Lab assisting with Vancouver’s Babes in the Woods cold case (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA Laboratory is helping investigate one of Vancouver’s oldest unsolved murders.
Jun 21	Legacy of Hope Waniskahtan Exhibit opening soon in Thunder Bay (Thunder Bay) Lakehead University’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives is hosting the Legacy of Hope Waniskahtan Exhibit, designed to create greater awareness about the high rates of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.
Jun 21	Listen to Dr. Todd Dufresne’s Ideas lectures now (Thunder Bay) Last week, Dr. Dufresne provided three lectures to the CBC’s Ideas, which build on his 2019 book, The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene.
Jun 18	Lakehead University and TBRHRI scientists receiving more than $1.3 million for research (Thunder Bay) , (Georgian - Barrie) Lakehead University and TBRHRI researchers are receiving more than $1.3 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for 16 exciting research projects.
Jun 17	Dr. Lana Ray named as Lakehead University’s Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures (Thunder Bay) Starting July 1, Dr. Lana Ray, Assistant Professor in Indigenous Learning, will begin her appointment as Lakehead University’s Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures.
Jun 15	Let's Talk Science outreach team receives 2021 Indigenous Outreach Project Award (Orillia) Award acknowledges the partnership between Let's Talk Science at Lakehead Orillia and Beausoleil First Nation.
Jun 14	Lakehead University researchers helping to make housing more affordable across Canada (Thunder Bay) A Lakehead University professor is co-leading two research teams receiving more than $1.3 million each from the Government of Canada, which will improve the availability of affordable housing in Canada.
Jun 11	Congratulations to Dr. Charles Levkoe on receiving the 2020 Food, Culture and Society Best Article Award (Thunder Bay) The paper is titled Serving up food studies online: teaching about “food from somewhere” from nowhere.
Jun 9	Lakehead University professor receives NSERC funding to create coding program for Indigenous youth (Thunder Bay) A Lakehead University Computer Science professor is receiving a $36,000 PromoScience grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to develop and deliver a six-week coding program collaboratively with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives.
Jun 3	Message from the Office of the President (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) On April 16, 2021, the Government of Ontario tabled legislation that will sever the Northern Ontario School of Medicine from its partnership with Lakehead and Laurentian Universities and make NOSM its own stand-alone, degree-granting institution.
Jun 2	Lakehead-Georgian Partnership graduates first cohort (Georgian - Barrie) Ten students will graduate on June 8 and 10 from Lakehead-Georgian's Electrical Engineering and Environmental Sustainability programs.
May 31	Message from the Office of the President (Thunder Bay) , (Orillia) The flags at Lakehead University have been lowered to half-mast today, and they will remain so until June 8 — one hour for each of the 215 Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation children found.

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