Celebrating the people, projects, and impact of research projects at UNB, New Brunswick's national comprehensive university and research leader. | Main: @UNB

New Brunswick, Canada
Joined November 2010
Research Celebration Week is coming up! Join us at UNB (and online) Oct. 5-9 for our fifth annual celebration of all things research at UNB! Check out all the events taking place across the university, and RSVP today, on our website: unb.ca/research/research-cel…
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🌟 Moments to celebrate: Dr. Tommi Linnansaari (Forestry and Environmental Management) was invited to the advisory council for RiverPulse, a new, large-scale, interdisciplinary collaboration in the Arctic.
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RiverPulse, which will investigate how climate change, natural resources, language, culture, and Indigenous knowledge are interconnected across the Arctic, was awarded €2.5 million in European research Council funding in June: en.uit.no/project/multitrans…
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Moments to celebrate: Dr. Patrick Bruning, a Professor of Business Administration in UNB’s Faculty of Management, received a Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of Management, a Financial Times global top 50 business journal. Congratulations, Dr. Bruning!
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Dr. Bruning previously won Reviewer of the Year for the journal Human Relations and currently serves on the editorial board for both journals.
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🌟Moments to celebrate: Dr. Edward Wilson-Ewing, a professor of mathematics and statistics, is helping us understand how the universe works. His recent work on quantum gravity in the primordial universe was highlighted as an EPL Editor’s Choice article: iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
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This work, which seeks to explain why the cosmic background radiation we can still observe today is very evenly distributed, has also just been featured in a new, special publication highlighting EPL's 40th anniversary: physicsworld.com/p/highlight…
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🌟Moments to celebrate: in May of this year, Dr. Amanjot Singh, a professor of finance in Saint John, delivered a volunteer session to share his knowledge with program staff from Housing NB. (1/2)
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(2/2) The workshop looked at nonprofit housing financial statements, covering subsidies, forgivable loans, and replacement reserves, and helping staff better connect the different financial statements in a set. 📇unb.ca/faculty-staff/directo…
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Research centres and institutes are an integral part of UNB’s research landscape, places where groups of researchers and partners can bring, and find, diverse perspectives and knowledge on a topic. Read more about these groups and some recent milestones: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/2026/1…
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🌟 Moments to celebrate: Congratulations to the Centre for Research in Integrated Care team! Their paper “From Evidence to Policy: Moving from Needs Assessment to Provincial Adoption” was chosen as 1 of 3 Distinguished Papers at the 2026 @NAPCRG Annual Meeting! (1/2)
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(2/2) The North American Primary Care Research Group is one of the premier international forums for primary care research, featuring more than 600 research sessions. Learn more about the Centre for Research in Integrated Care: unb.ca/cric/
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Moments to celebrate: Dr. Petrea Taylor, a professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences based in Moncton, joined a roster of experts on suicide prevention assembled by the Public Health Agency of Canada. (1/2)
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(2/2) The PHAC put out its call for experts in response to the federal government’s National Suicide Prevention Action Plan. Thank you, Dr. Taylor, for contributing your expertise to this important work.
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Moments to celebrate: Natalie Dupont, an MSc student co-supervised by Dr. Tommi Linnansaari and Dr. Marc Trudel (DFO), received the 2026 Bud and Peggy Bird Scholarship. Her research examines the movements and survival of Atlantic salmon during their first year at sea. (1/2)
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(2/2) The scholarship is awarded through the Canadian Rivers Institute to a graduate student directly engaged in research in support of wild Atlantic salmon conservation. Congratulations, Natalie!
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As part of our Research Celebration Week, we want to applaud our 2025-2026 recipients of UNB’s two major research awards, Dr. Lucia O’Sullivan and Dr. Saqib Hakak! (Read the citations honouring their contributions on our blog: blogs.unb.ca/research/2026/1…)
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Last year was a banner year for inventions at UNB, with 10 patents granted in a 12-month period! Read about these innovative solutions for challenges ranging from blood cancer treatment to more compact power inverters for the electrical grid: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/2026/1…
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🌟Moments to Celebrate: Congratulations to Dr. Emily Read, a professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences! Dr. Read and her colleague Dr. Kateryna Metersky (TMU) were invited to present a keynote at Unity Health Toronto’s inaugural Clinical Nurse Educator Summit (1/2)
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(2/2) Their research focuses on clinical nurse educators, professional socialization, and the healthcare workforce. 📇 unb.ca/faculty-staff/directo…
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🌟Moments to celebrate: Dr. Peter Kerr, Chair of Applied Research in Sales, was an invited guest on The Emblazers Show, a business podcast focusing on the B2B sales sector. Kerr shared insights from his meta-analysis of salesperson performance research : tourial.corporatevisions.com…
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