The Harold Crabtree Foundation has made a $100,000 donation to UNB's Forging Our Futures campaign to create the Crabtree Visiting Scholar program. The gift was announced recently at the close of Next NB's SeaChange/Métamorphose 2005 conference in Saint John.

Adam Ding has become the first graduate student to be awarded UNB's William S. Lewis Doctoral Fellowship - Atlantic Canada's most prestigious graduate-level university scholarship. Mr. Ding, a PhD candidate in civil engineering, will receive $25,000 for four years.

Researchers from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton's faculty of forestry and environmental management and UNB Saint John's department of biology will join two other universities on a new Fundy Model Forest (FMF) research initiative. UNBF and UNB Saint John will join representatives from the Université de Moncton and University of Maine in Orono in an initiative called Management Implications of Forest Dynamics, Succession, and Habitat Relationships under Differing Levels of Silviculture in New Brunswick Forests.

Election to the Royal Society of Canada is considered the highest honour that can be attained by scholars, artists and scientists across the nation.

An international scholar from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, J. Douglas Willms, has attained this distinction in the society's Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Falls are the leading cause of injury deaths and disabilities for Canadians over the age of 65. A researcher at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton hopes to reduce this statistic. Chris McGibbon is seeking to understand the mechanisms of balance and posture control.