By Andy Sargent

Sarah Oosman, a PhD student of interdisciplinary studies, was one of only three people across the country awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health (CIHR-IAPH) Scientific Director’s Award of Excellence.

A graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan is working to resurrect the Aboriginal Graduates Students’ Association. For now though, it will operate under the new name of the Indigenous Graduate Students’ Council (IGSC).

Students from the U of S have launched a unique entrepreneurial program with aboriginal high school students that promises to produce beneficial results for all involved.

The team has been dedicating much of their extracurricular time teaching local aboriginal high school students the importance of financial literacy as part of their “Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Program.” The U of S students started this project through their involvement with Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), a program operated by ACE (Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship) that encourages students to create economic opportunities in their communities.

As part of the students’ involvement in this program as well as the HSBC SIFE Financial Education Challenge, the U of S team will present the results of their project at a regional competition, the 2008 ACE Regional Exposition, in Calgary on Feb. 29. If they advance through the regional event, the team will present their project at the national competition later this year.

Through the Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Program, the U of S team meets regularly with aboriginal high school students at the White Buffalo Youth Lodge in Saskatoon to teach them how to finance a business. The program is hoped to provide these high school students with financial skills they can utilize in their own lives and pass on to other in the aboriginal community.

Joan Greyeyes is delighted to be back at the University of Saskatchewan.

Joan Greyeyes
Photo by Colleen MacPherson

Erin Mazer and Dwight Bird went half way around the world to see a justice system up close, one of the unique experiences offered by the Department of Sociology’s Aboriginal Justice and Criminology (ABJAC) program.

Check out the exciting events going on in an effort to recognize and honour Aboriginal achievement on campus.

Wiggins Court between the Murray Building and Arts has been identified as the new site for the Aboriginal Student Space project.

Saskatchewan’s Crown Investments Corporation (CIC) will contribute $1 million over five years to the University’s new Aboriginal Student Achievement Program

(Photo) Robert Kennedy Jr. answers questions.

American environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped into campus Oct. 12 to meet with Aboriginal students and answer questions about environmental issues.