Media Tips, October 6
$10,000 cheque more than covers cost of coveted cap and cape
Google VP Vinton Cerf was so taken with the regalia he wore to Convocation at Royal Roads University last June (to accept an honorary degree) that he asked to take the cap and cape home with him. In return, he sent the university a cheque for $10,000 . . . substantially more than the cost of the ceremonial garb. The generous donation was directed to the university’s Legacy Campaign and – combined with residual funds totalling $13,000 from the 2008 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution – has helped create a new bursary for students in the Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies program. Read more . . .
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West Shore Chamber and Royal Roads host all-candidates meeting
The West Shore Chamber of Commerce and Royal Roads University will host an all-candidates forum for Esquimalt Juan de Fuca on Thursday, Oct. 9 starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Quarterdeck of the Grant Building. For more information call 250-883-2050 or e-mail angela.pollock@royalroads.ca
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Learner fundraises to launch waste and recycling program in Laos village
Before arriving at Royal Roads University, Phillip LeBlanc was living with his wife Kham Souk in Laos, South East Asia, teaching English and volunteering at an English-language daily called the Vientiane Times. During a trip home last March, he got an idea. “Villagers where I live are poor and it costs $1.80 per month to have weekly garbage pick-up. Most household waste, as a result, goes into the river flowing alongside our house. After doing some research, I realized that for about two thousand dollars, I could buy 30 large plastic garbage bins and cover the cost of having those 30 bins picked up and emptied every week for one year. To help or read more . . .
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Ike Barber Transfer Scholars choose Royal Roads University
Nicole Havers of Courtenay and Jeff Rees of Kimberley have each received $5,000 Ike Barber Transfer Scholarships to attend Royal Roads University. Havers, formerly a marketing management student focusing on tourism studies at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, transferred to RRU’s Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management program while Rees, a student from Selkirk College`s school of renewable resources, transferred to the BSc – Environmental Management program. Read more . . .
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Royal Roads Chancellor’s award-winner is second greenest person on earth
RRU graduate and Chancellor’s award-winner Emily Jubenvill, already named the greenest person in Canada, found out last month she is almost the greenest person on Earth as well, coming in second to Matthias Gelber of Malaysia. Emily graduated from RRU’s Environmental Science program in 2007. A community gardener who does worm composting in her apartment, she now works as an advisor for a Bioenergy firm in Vancouver.
Community Relations Director, Stephanie Slater
stephanie.slater@royalroads.ca
250-391-2712, cel 250-361-5020
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