Rebecca Cohoe

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Practice and Place

2 months ago | gazette.mun.ca | Rebecca Cohoe

Are you interested in working hand in hand with public and community partners to make the world a better place? Memorial students, faculty and staff who are interested in building their skills and networks related to public engagement are invited to attend Engage Memorial Symposium 2025: Practice and Place, taking place at Signal Hill Campus from May 28-29. Registration is now open.
Making it personal

Jan 16, 2025 | gazette.mun.ca | Rebecca Cohoe

About 45 per cent of Canadians are expected to develop cancer during our lifetimes, with about 247,100 new cases expected this year. That’s about 676 new diagnoses every day. Looking at these cases as a group can be useful from a research perspective. Making generalizations across cases can lead to knowledge that helps a lot of people. Still, each person with cancer is also an individual with a unique experience of the illness, a person with insight unlike anyone else’s.
People of the ice

Dec 12, 2023 | gazette.mun.ca | Rebecca Cohoe

“When I think of an Inuit hunter, I think of a person out at the ice edge watching the sea, waiting.”Andrew Arreak’s words are at the heart of Sikumiut, a groundbreaking initiative that monitors, documents and disseminates crucial Inuit knowledge regarding sea ice safety; Mr. Arreak is the SmartICE (Sea-ice Monitoring and Real-Time Information for Coastal Environments) northern operations lead and Sikumiut co-ordinator.
Culture of collaboration

Sep 11, 2023 | gazette.mun.ca | Rebecca Cohoe

Memorial’s Office of Public Engagement is launching a Public Engagement Framework renewal process this fall. The process will allow the office to ask people, inside and outside the university, how they envision the next 10 years of Memorial’s public engagement story. The answers they collect will help build on the evaluation of the framework, released earlier this year.
Opportunities and challenges

Mar 15, 2023 | gazette.mun.ca | Andreae Callanan |Rebecca Cohoe

Was the Public Engagement Framework a success? Public Engagement The first phase of Memorial’s Public Engagement Framework is complete. Memorial’s Office of Public Engagement is asking: Was the strategy a success?
Sense of wonder Virtual Visits

Mar 7, 2023 | gazette.mun.ca | Rebecca Cohoe

Simone Cominelli’s mother grew up on a tiny island, just off the coast of another island: Sardinia, Italy. “Nearly every summer, she would take my brother and I back,” he recalls. The seascapes were wild and exciting, and he remembers his sense of curiosity upon finding the remains of a giant sea turtle on the beach. Now, the PhD student in Memorial’s Department of Geography is hoping to help encourage that same sense of wonder in young students across Newfoundland and Labrador.