Welcoming a new team member in Alumni Relations
We are pleased to share that Aileen Lee is joining the Pearson College UWC team as our new Alumni Engagement Officer. Aileen will be moving to campus with her family in August and is looking forward to hosting alumni on campus and helping the alumni community find...
Rinus Van Hall: From Painter to Coin Designer
By Heloise Nicholl When I first met Rinus van Hall (Year 35/2010, Netherlands) via Zoom, his occupation as a painter was evident. Canvases lit up the computer screen all around him. Surrounded by colourful paintings in a stylish gallery downstairs from his studio, the...
A Whale of a Move…and Other Infrastructure Work
Let the puns fly, as we already did in the headline, but this is job as big as Ahab’s obsession! Yes, one of Pearson College UWC’s longest, and probably largest, residents – the reconstructed Gray Whale skeleton currently on a covered deck adjacent to the Molson Pool...
Year 47, There is More in You Than You Think!
Remarks by Craig Davis, President and Head of College (Editor’s Note: Head of College Craig Davis welcomed the entire campus community, plus some families of students, to last month’s leaving ceremony for Year 47 on a sunny and mild afternoon outdoors on the community...
Student-led Menstrual Justice Team Legacy Impact
This year, Pearson College UWC saw the founding of a new group called, “The Menstrual Justice Team.”
Gender Equity and Empowerment Day 2022
By Abby Chapman (YR 47/2022, Canada-PEI), Danielle Mitchell (YR 47/2022, Australia), Araliya Chen (YR 48/2023, Singapore) and Shanaz Bennani (YR 48/2023, Morocco) Last month, Pearson’s student-powered and inspired Gender, Equity, and Empowerment Club hosted “GEE Day,”...