By Kennosuke Aki  Why did I come to Bishop’s?  I came to Bishop’s University as an exchange student from Tokushima University, Japan. The biggest reason was that my home university is a partner university with Bishop’s. After living in Michigan for 3 years when I was little, I wanted to go to an English-speaking country,...

Dr. Simplice Ayangma Bonoho came to Bishop’s University from Cameroon as a Postdoctoral health researcher examining Canada’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) supporting the health development of francophone countries in Africa. His project was one of 70 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships announced in 2021 by the Government of Canada.  Until now, scientific production in this field had...

Fannie Gaudette, contract faculty member and Music Department accompanist, is launching a professional music career, fulfilling a long-time aspiration while also using her professional and academic connections within the University.   Many of the Music Department’s faculty were touring career musicians before becoming professors, including the current Chair of the Department, Dr. Mathieu Désy, and Dr....

The Music and Drama Departments in the Bishop’s University Faculty of Humanities have combined their talents to create the Musical Theatre Concentration, the only Musical Theatre curriculum offered in English in the province of Quebec. Dr. Art Babayants, the concentration’s director, describes it as more flexible and accessible than a conservatory program or a larger...

“What? The Barista degree?” your parents might exclaim (thinking that they will have to subsidize you for the next decade as you bounce from one food service job to the next in a perpetual cycle of underemployment). To which you can reply (smugly, but not too smugly that they won’t pay for your travel home...