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Meeting the needs of the community through service

The Fredericton Downtown Community Health Centre (FDCHC) provides unique experiences for UNB nursing students that can’t be recreated in a classroom or laboratory setting.

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UNB law students help Supreme Court resolve challenging legal issues

When a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada calls you, it might be a sign you did something wrong. However, for UNB law students Curtis Doyle (MA'13, JD'20) and Erik Arsenault (JD’21), it was long-awaited good news.

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Community-engaged learning in action

Hayes Farm is helping create a resilient and thriving food system by providing citizens with the skills, expertise and support they need to practice human-scale regenerative agriculture.

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Uncovering history at the Fortress of Louisbourg

Aspiring archaeologists spend four weeks of the summer digging up bones at the Fortress of Louisbourg, a National Historic Site on Cape Breton, N.S., as part of UNB's Bioarchaeology Field School.

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Finding the bets that will pay off

Airbnb, Instagram and Uber were once small startup companies looking for investors’ money to grow. Then smart venture capitalists came along, recognized their great ideas and catapulted the companies to fame and fortune. Students in the Venture Assessment course in UNB’s faculty of management now have an opportunity to pick winners too, thanks to the recently established Fraser Student Venture Fund.

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Tackling food insecurity

Sarah Lunney spent her 12-week summer internship with the Saint John Community Food Basket, applying the research, critical thinking and communications skills she learned in the classroom to address some of the real-life challenges faced by a local non-profit.

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