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Mount Allison University student Tess Casher will attend one of the most well-known universities in the world next fall -- and she can't wait to get there. Casher has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship from the University of Oxford in England.
Mount Allison University honours English student Tess Casher has been awarded a 2023 Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Oxford. Casher is one of 11 Canadians to receive the prestigious award and the 56th student from Mount Allison.
Four international field schools will be available to Mount Allison University students next spring. Through the federally funded Global Skills Opportunity program, the University will be holding field schools in Belize, the Galapagos Islands, Japan, and Netherlands, available to students in a variety of disciplines.
This week, November 13-19, is National Transgender Awareness Week, which helps raise the visibility of transgender people and address issues the transgender community faces. This week of education and advocacy leads up to the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20 — an annual observance that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost this year in acts of anti-transgender violence. The University will raise the Transgender Flag on campus in observance of this week and will lower it to half-mast over the weekend for the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
New Brunswick universities are unaware of any local exposures to a university student in Nova Scotia who died of a suspected case of meningococcal meningitis.