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Chancellor Eileen Mercier donates $1.4 million
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Earlier in June, Wilfrid Laurier University announced in a news release that chancellor Eileen Mercier donated $1.4 million dollars to the university’s music program for the new Eileen Mercier Endowed Professorship in Voice and Choral Music Education. The professorship will involve hiring a faculty member who will work with Voice and Choral Music students in…
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Laurier alumnus donates $1 million in support of supply chain research
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A generous donation of $1 million was made by Laurier alumnus Dan Einwechter, BBA ‘77, in support of supply chain management research. The Laurier Centre for Supply Chain Management, housed within the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, will now be named the Einwechter Centre for Supply Chain Management following the donation. “[Einwechter] himself is a…
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Sun Life donates $750,000 to support physical activity programming for youth
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With a $750,000 donation to be given over the course of five years, the Sun Life Centre for Healthy Communities (CHC) can continue its mission of providing affordable and accessible physical activity to children and youth in the community. The Sun Life Centre for Healthy Communities, formerly known as the Sun Life Centre for Physically Active…
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Measuring the impact of the Brantford Downtown Outreach Program
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The Brantford Downtown Outreach Team, otherwise known as BDOT, is a pilot program implemented in July of 2019 with a focus on reaching out to people struggling with addiction, homelessness and other challenges. The idea for the BDOT was born out of a need for a new approach to working with vulnerable populations, such as…
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Alumni Association donates $800,000 to student services to enhance the Laurier experience
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Homecoming weekend saw the announcement of the Wilfrid Laurier University Alumni Association (WLUAA) donating $800,000 to enhance student services for current students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The donation was split up into four parts to cover different student services around campus that could use funding. $350,000 of the donation was put towards…
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Laurier to recieve $1.3 million to support women’s entrepreneurship
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Wilfrid Laurier University is set to receive $1.3 million of funding through FedDev Ontario as a part of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. The Women Entrepreneurship Strategy is a $2 billion investment made by the Government of Canada with the purpose of advancing womens’ economic empowerment in hopes of doubling the number of female entrepreneurs by…
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Bookstore theft loses the fight to exclude found evidence
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In 2014, Breanna Flynn, a former financial operations assistant at the Wilfrid Laurier University bookstore, was charged when $31,000 was found missing from the store’s safe. According to The Record, Flynn has recently lost a fight to exclude evidence that was found in a search of her residence in Elmira. In September 2014, Flynn was…
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Piano donated to concourse for student use
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This past week, Wilfrid Laurier University’s faculty of music hosted an event in the Concourse to inaugurate the newly donated piano for all students to use. The piano is located in the Fred Nichols Campus Centre beside the Starbucks on the Waterloo campus. The concert took place on, the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 17. The…
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