A UNBC Athletics video featuring men's basketball player Tyrell Laing won the Council of Advancement and Support of Education grand gold awards for video on shoestring and the new opportunity and inclusion special recognition category. Laing approached UNBC about producing a video so he could share his thoughts and personal experiences about Black Lives Matter.

Global and International Studies Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan Andrews received a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. He will partner with Professor Ernest Khalema at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-graduate engagement and academic co-mentorship.

In his new book The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare: Unhealthy Distribution, Economics Professor Dr. Jalil Safaei grapples with the paradox that as global wealth increases, health inequities persist.

English Assistant Professor Dr. Troy Bordun's forthcoming paper examines philosophical ideas of luck in the context of the Marvel superhero Domino. He will also be teaching a class this semester on comic books and graphic novels.

Selena Paskalidis (BComm, 2009) helps content creators distribute with her company dotStudioPro

The pedagogy of wonder