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An endowment of over $350,000 received by The Douglas College Foundation will go toward supporting the College’s Institute of Urban Ecology (IUE).

Media luminary and Olympic athlete Karin Larsen was awarded Douglas College’s highest honour – Honorary Fellow – today at a graduation ceremony. Larsen rose to the top of the sports world as an Olympian and two-time world champion artistic swimmer before she launched an illustrious career in sports journalism with the CBC.

The Douglas College Foundation received its largest ever donation today – $3 million – from the estate of Mary Gordon, a former registered nurse whose philanthropic gift will be used to support future generations of nurses in British Columbia.

An Amelia Douglas Gallery solo exhibition opening today explores the concepts of aging, memory and identity within the framework of cultural beauty standards. Across 10 figural paintings, Vancouver-based artist Annette Nieukerk’s latest series, The Long Road Home, evokes the intensity of emotion and intimacy that can exist between older people.

Douglas College’s Computing Science program is now an authorized Unreal Engine Education Partner, helping students get a leg up in the gaming industry.

Post-secondary students will soon have more opportunities to study abroad thanks to a new network launched by Douglas College in collaboration with eight other colleges and institutes across Western Canada.

Douglas College’s new Post-Degree Diploma (PDD) in Kinesiology will prepare future Kinesiology grads to meet the upcoming professional standards set by the British Columbia Association of Kinesiologists (BCAK) to become a practising kinesiologist in the province.

From designing a one-handed zipper closure to help stroke patients gain independence to applying new archaeological technologies in locating Indigenous petroglyphs on Vancouver Island, Douglas students are using their hands-on education to take on research topics that have real-world implications.