Alumni E-News

Alumni E-News strives to keep alumni and friends up-to-date with news from the university including important announcements, student and alumni achievements, athletic news and upcoming events. You will still receive your alumni magazine, the Agricola News, by mail, free-of-charge. Please make sure your address is up to date. The on-line version of the Agricola News can be found at http://nsac.ca/alumni/agricola_news.asp

2006 CCAA Women's National Volleyball Championships a huge success

To view all the volleyball results, pictures and play-by-play webcast visit www.nsac.ca/nationals

During the days of March 9th-11th, 2006 the Langille Athletic Centre was host to the best women's volleyball teams in the country. This was also the first time that the live play by play statistics were broadcast live via the web. During these three days the NSAC webserver served up over 250,000 hits to the Nationals website and webcast. After each game was played digital photographs were posted to the site as well which accounted for an additional 70,000 hits. To put this in perspective: in 3 days we logged close to a months worth of traffic!

New Poultry building construction well underway

The steel is beginning to rise on the new poultry research facility at NSAC. The mild winter has helped with construction of the estimated $11M project and a completion date of late fall 2006 is now anticipated.  When done, this state-of-the art facility will help NSAC become a world leader in this area of research.  Watch for updates on the website.

Graduate Research Training Scholarships prove successful

Investigating a safer, more natural method to improving the productivity and efficiency of ruminant animals through the addition of essential oils to rumen diets is the goal of Graduate Research Training Initiative fellowship recipient Gillian Fraser’s research currently being conducted at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College under the supervision of Dr. Chaouki Benchaar, Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Dr. Derek Anderson, Professor, Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Nova Scotia Agricultural College. more....

Reminder: Alumni Summer Reunion Program

There will also be a “mini” summer homecoming held on Thursday July 27th, 2006 to coincide with NSAC’s annual Open House and Agri-Golf Classic. The NSAC Alumni Family Barbeque will be held in the Alumni Gardens beginning at 4:00 p.m. Alumni will have the opportunity to tour campus during our open house, visit with retired faculty and staff and enjoy the grounds of campus. Please keep posted to our website for further details as they develop and plan to attend this summer reunion. http://nsac.ca/alumni/Homecoming/summerreunion06.asp

2nd Century Endowment Phone Campaign has completed for 2006

The second year of the 2nd Century Endowment Phone Campaign has just been completed and can be judged a success. Our hard working students attempted to call over 3000 of our alumni in a three week period to ask for support for the endowment campaign.  They managed to get in touch with about 40% of those people and got pledges and donations that brought our total for this years' campaign to $45,200. This can be added to the $530,000 total for the campaign last year.

Overall, when all pledge are complete, the campaign will give NSAC an additional $575,000 for its endowed scholarships and bursaries and other projects. We hope that figure will increase even more over time as others commit to the objective of providing our students with long term financial support.

If you have made pledge, please honour it.  If you would like to make a contribution, please contact the Development Office. (902) 893-6721.