After two successful pilot studies, the university is dramatically expanding its learning communities program, part of an ongoing effort to recruit and retain undergraduate students.

For students in Dr. Rani Kanthan's pathology classes, playing games in school is serious business.

When PhD student Peter Hedlin isn’t playing cello with the U of S Amati Quartet, he’s working to find a vaccine for mad cow disease, which may, some day, point to a treatment for other devastating wasting diseases in both animals and humans.

PhD student Peter Hedlin
Photo by Colleen MacPherson

A U of S student in Mechanical Engineering has received one of five ECO Canada Student Ambassador Awards for 2008.

According to a news release, Chris McCaig was selected from more than 50 award applicants for designing and developing a wind turbine on the U of S campus. Each of the five recipients of the ECO Canada award will receive a grant worth $2,500 and the opportunity to preset their research during GLOBE 2008, a conference on business and the environment being held March 12 to 14 in Vancouver.

Established in 1992, ECO Canada develops programs that help both employers and job seekers in the environment sector by developing business programs and providing various career resources, internships and certification.

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.

A group of University of Saskatchewan nursing students, along with Assistant Dean June Anonson, have returned home to Prince Albert after helping to clean up South Korea’s largest and most disastrous oil spill.

U of S Nursing students help clean up South Korea's most disastrous oil spill. The students were in South Korea as part of an international nursing practicum in January, and volunteered to help with remediation efforts related to the spill.
Photo courtesy the College of Nursing

Three undergraduate computer programmers have become the first U of S team in more than a decade to qualify for a prestigious global competition.

Undergrad programmers, from left to right: Travis Calder, Christoph Dittmann and Kung Chi Cinnati Loi.
OCN Photo

For PhD student Ryan Spelay, what began as a post-BSc summer job several years ago at the Pipe Flow Technology Center, a satellite lab of the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), resulted in an excellent opportunity not only to gain hands-on practical experience in his field, but to continue his education, as well.

Two U of S grad students in Kinesiology are charting new territory with their yoga research.

It may seem like an unlikely place to find God, but one researcher at the University of Saskatchewan has found the Holy Trinity in the television program Trailer Park Boys.

Over the past few years, various groups in the Department of Music have produced five CDs, which act as business cards for both the department and the student musicians.

Parents and students at a previous Surviving US! presentation.
Photo courtesy SESD

Marketing & Student Recruitment is looking for volunteers to help take the fear out of first year for over 3,000 incoming U of S students.

PhD student Hossein Nikakhtari.
Photo by Jim Snyder

They say it’s the little things that make the difference, and Hossein Nikakhtari may have just found one of those little things that make a big difference for our planet.

Do good things really come in small packages?

The Board of Governors voted Sept. 30 to give graduate students a six-per-cent pay raise, as part of a U of S effort to address the students' concerns in a number of areas, including pay, working conditions and other issues.