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Rethinking AI in the Classroom: Meet MSVU’s Dr. Michael Pin-Chuan Lin

Picture a learning tool designed not simply to hand over answers. Instead, it asks: What do you already understand? Where’s the gap? What will you try next? That’s the premise behind MetaMentorAI, a flagship project…

Food For Thought and MSVU Appetite Lab partner to advance healthier school meals

Founded in 2020 by Melissa and Shandra MacMaster during the COVID-19 pandemic, Food For Thought Software Solutions was created to ensure vulnerable children across Canada had access to nutritious food. The company initially focused on…

Marking Emancipation Day

To the MSVU community, This Saturday, August 1 is Emancipation Day. “Emancipation Day is the day that The Slavery Abolition Act became law in the British Empire (including Canada) and ended the practice of slavery…

New course explores Indigenous perspectives on aging and well-being

Students in all programs at MSVU are invited to advance their Indigenous learning journeys by registering for a new course to be offered by the Department of Aging and Family Science this fall (2026). This…

Two MSVU honorary degree recipients appointed Officers of the Order of Canada

Mount Saint Vincent University extends a hearty congratulations to Corinne (Connie) Sparks, O.C., and The Honourable Mayann Francis, O.C., O.N.S. who have been appointed Officers of the Order of Canada. Both hold honorary degrees from…

Art that inspires: This summer at the MSVU Art Gallery

The MSVU Art Gallery has two standout exhibitions this summer for the community to drop in and experience before August 9, 2026. “Although visually and conceptually quite different, both of our summer exhibitions – George Bernard Jr.’s Light & Legacy and…

From the classroom to the coastline: MSVU students, president pitch in for coastal clean-up

In the wake of World Oceans Week (pun intended), MSVU President Dr. Joël Dickinson joined a Child & Youth Study team – alongside students from C&YS 3333 – and a crew from Coastal Action for…

Down syndrome isn’t a tragedy — but misinformation about it is

Martha E. Walls, Mount Saint Vincent University and Cornelia Schneider, Mount Saint Vincent University For more than a century, people with Down syndrome have been defined by what medicine says they cannot do. That framing…

Marking Pride 2026

Dear MSVU Community, At MSVU, we celebrate all that makes each of us unique. This Pride season, we reaffirm our commitment to creating a campus where everyone feels safe, supported, and valued for who they are. While Pride is both a celebration of 2SLGBTQIA+…

Two-Eyed Seeing Program marks 10 years with new NSERC grant

Congratulations to the Two-Eyed Seeing Program on receiving NSERC PromoScience funding for a fourth three-year term and marking its 10th anniversary! The Two-Eyed Seeing (TES) Program is made possible through a grant from the Natural…