Year of Culture & Creativity

Prepare to be inspired as Mount Allison celebrates the Year of Culture and Creativity.

The Year of Culture and Creativity will emphasize the role that traditional ‘arts’ departments and programs such as Fine Arts, Music, and Drama play at Mount Allison. It will also recognize and celebrate the creative role that all scholars bring to their respective disciplines.

The President's Speakers Series will reflect the theme with an exciting list of lectures:

Thomas King
Title:	Telling Stories to Turtles
Profile:	CBC personality and acclaimed author
Event:	October 4, 7:30 p.m., Brunton Auditorium
Jian Ghomeshi
Title:	Pop Culture for Social Change
Profile:	Host of “Q,” CBC Radio One and Bold TV, musician, and writer
Event:	November 19, 7:00 p.m., Convocation Hall
Lyn Heward
Title:	The Spark: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives within Us All
Profile:	Director of Creation for Cirque du Soleil and author
Event:	January 11, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Brunton Auditorium
Cynthia Dale
Title:	An evening of song and stories with Cynthia Dale
Profile:	Award-winning actor, singer, and stage performer
Event:	February 7, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Brunton Auditorium
Steven Pinker & Rebecca Goldstein
Title:	The Creative Mind
Profile:	Leading cognitive scientist and Harvard psychology professor, with his wife, an American novelist and philosopher
Event:	March 28, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Convocation Hall

The lectures are free of charge and all are welcome to attend.

Music Alumni Newsletter

The Fall 2010 issue of Take Note!, the Music Department Alumni Newsletter, is now ready for viewing. This edition of Take Note! highlights some of the renewal projects currently underway.

Happy reading!

Party in the MTA

The Students' Administrative Council and 2010 Orientation Committee teamed up to film Mount Allison's first lip dub in the weeks leading up to the arrival of the class of 2014.

The project, spearheaded by Vijay Jeyapalan (VP Communications), Sacha Nadeau (2010 Orientation Chair) and Ryan Sargent (VP Finance & Operations) saw over 200 participants, including members of the Mount Allison Athletics Department, come out for the filming.

Choreographed to the popular Miley Cyrus song "Party In The USA" highlights the Mount Allison experience and spirit - showing it truly is a "Party in the MTA".

Prestigious Postgraduate Scholarship Awarded

Congratulations to Ryan MacLeod ('10) who has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) — Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship to continue his studies in economics. Ryan graduated this past May with an honours degree in economics from Mount Allison.

This scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarships available to a graduate in the social sciences at a Canadian university.

Ryan, from Sydney, Cape Breton, is attending Queen’s University this fall. In addition to his SSHRC, he received a Teaching Assistantship position at Queen’s and a Tri-Council Recipient Recognition Award.

Read more: Mount Allison economics grad awarded prestigious postgraduate scholarship

Young Alumni Earning International Acclaim

Kyle Hill (’06) has been making headlines since he first arrived at Mount Allison. The recipient of a Bell Scholarship, and Mount Allison’s 46th Rhodes Scholar recently completed his PhD in physics at the University of Oxford, specializing in medical imaging of the lungs.

Just four years after graduating from Mount Allison, he has now been selected as one of the 17 fellows for the 2010-11 Action Canada Fellowship. The Fellowship is a leadership and public policy development program that selects up to 20 participants in the early stages of their careers who have the promise to be future Canadian leaders. The program includes six weekend conferences from May 2010 to April 2011, held in Vancouver, Montreal, Yellowknife, St. John’s, Toronto, and Ottawa. The fellows come from science, medicine, business, government, academia, and other professions.

Read more: Kyle Hill earning international acclaim