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The Culture Regeneration Research Society (CRRS) has donated $100,000 to Trinity Western University to establish the Faith, Hope and Love Canadian Scholarship.
The money will benefit Chinese students, Canadian and International, studying in the fields of Nursing and Education. Beginning in fall 2008, two $2,500 grants will go to TWU undergraduate students each year — one within the Education program, the other within the nursing program. Students are chosen based on their academic standing and financial need.
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Last week, a big name came to the small class of Trinity Western University’s Laurentian Leadership Centre. Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Margaret Amoakohene, visited to speak to the class.
Amoakohene has been the Ghanayan ambassador for 15 months. In the history of the program, the former university professor is the first with such a role to speak to those at the LLC.
“We invited her in to talk about the role of being an ambassador, and how her faith affects her role,” said Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham, director of the LLC.
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As of October 16, Robson now has six plasma screen televisions, one in each lounge. The change is due to $10,000 donated anonymously for this purpose.
Kelvin Gartley, Director of Community Life, says that the request was specifically for Robson to receive six TVs, complete with a fully-paid one-year subscription to satellite cable.
According to Gartley, “Students will appreciate watching TV in their own building.”
Robson residents Beth Douglas and Emily Lynch both welcome the change. “[It is a] blessing to have a place where we can watch TV,” said Douglas. “Robson just has a big lounge out there, and it’ll be good for our hall to watch movies together.”
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VANCOUVER (CUP) – Professors at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University are conducting a new type of brain-imaging study that could offer an alternative treatment for depression.
Mario Liotta, an SFU psychology professor, and Kalina Chrisoff, a UBC psychology professor, are working together with the help of UBC students to custom-design the new study. The technology allows a person to see the reactions his or her brain has in response to different kinds of introspective thoughts while they are in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner.
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Niccolo Machiavelli argued that one of the most difficult tasks for a ruler is the introduction of new modes and orders, in other words, the rules by which we govern society. There has perhaps never been a bolder attempt at such a shift than in 1948, when the United Nations set forth their principles for a future global order in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Intentionally or not, the UN created a conflict between the formerly dominant concept of state sovereignty and the currently popular idea of universal human rights. Only one could legitimately dictate the direction of international politics.
