“Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt One of the high points in my reading career was a book I found in my high school library when I was 16. It was an anthology of poems written by American high school students, and the poems were so authentic, so… Read more »
Sarah Joseph is currently living in Calgary while attending AU. She’s been from coast to coast and lived in several different areas, including the NWT, and harbors a not-so-secret love of comic books and fantasy video games, and a more-so-secret love of Buzzfeed “Which _____ are you” quizzes. She says she once won a yodelling… Read more »
Dr. Neil Fassina is the 8th President of Athabasca University. He earned a BSc in Psychology from the University of Calgary and PhD in Management from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto. He is an active researcher in the areas around applied decision-making. He was installed in mid-January, 2017 and works… Read more »
Dakota Soares was homeschooled until Grade 12. His educational path has been geared to earning a degree at AU. So, he started taking courses in high school to eventually start classes at AU. Last September, he signed up for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems. For his day jobs, he raises… Read more »
Dr. Neil Fassina is the 8th President of Athabasca University. He earned a BSc in Psychology from the University of Calgary and PhD in Management from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto. He is an active researcher in the areas around applied decision-making. He was installed in mid-January, 2017 and works… Read more »
This spring I’m going to be planting a small bundle of explosives near my home in Montreal, Quebec. I’ll be burying them in the soil at Dante Park, where I often go to sit on a bench, drink a thermos of tea, and talk to my good buddy, the bust of Dante. I’ve been a… Read more »
This is part two of The Voice Magazine’s Barbara Lehtiniemi’s interview with AU’s 2016-2017 Writer in Residence, John Vaillant. You can read part one of the interview here. Mr. Vaillant will give his first AU presentation on February 2, entitled “Reckoning the Present: Mediating the tension between the muse and the news.” AU Students are… Read more »
Veronique “Ronnie” St. Germain-Wiwchar wanted to earn a psychology degree. So is working toward a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Psychology. She found AU through a doctor, when she was going through a difficult time. She wanted something to work towards, so decided on becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist to help people. What… Read more »
John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, and The Jaguar’s Children, is AU’s 2016-2017 Writer in Residence. During his term as Writer in Residence, Vaillant will spend time providing feedback to AU students about their writing while also working on his next book about last year’s devastating fires in Fort McMurray. The Voice… Read more »
Jason Sullivan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from high school in Summerland in 1999. In 2002, he took a 10-month horticulture program at the College of the Rockies in Creston. He came across Athabasca and began a double-major in sociology and history in 2004, and completed the degree in 2014. What do… Read more »