Dr. Jade Savage, of Bishop’s University’s Biology and Biochemistry Department, created eTick.ca, an online tick identification platform, so Canadians could access a single, free, and comprehensive tool to report tick encounters and benefit from trained personnel to identify the tick species, and find out if the tick that bit them could transmit pathogens causing Lyme...

These stories are from Bishop’s Alumni Magazine, edition No. 58 Fall 2022. Everyone, at some point in their life, will be touched by the diseases of dementia and Alzheimer’s. They shall either fall victim to the disease, or find themself as caregiver and witness to the slow decline of cognitive functions with someone they love....

These stories are from Bishop’s Alumni Magazine, edition No. 58 Fall 2022. Despite being separated by decades, miles, and more, our alumni community has an indelible glue: Bishop’s University. For many, this has been a source of attraction over the years, pulling together alumni with otherwise unrelated lives and experiences. Such was the case for...

The English Department’s Dr. Jessica Riddell, through her work as the inaugural Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, has positioned Bishop’s University as a leader in discussions about quality undergraduate education in Canada and around the world.  Dr. Riddell believes in the central role of higher education to help confront the problems of...

These stories are from Bishop’s Alumni Magazine, edition No. 58 Fall 2022. In Memory of Jordan Slaman ‘22 If life had gone as planned, Jordan Slaman would have graduated from Bishop’s in Business and Computer Science in 2015. But he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. The prognosis and survival rates were...