THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

  • By January 30, 2013

    About 150 students and supporters crowded upper Place Riel Jan. 29 as the frontrunner for the Liberal leadership race Justin Trudeau made a campaign pitstop on campus.

  • Students left out of TransformUS task forces, plan to storm council meeting

    By January 23, 2013

    A crush of students are set to pack University of Saskatchewan council chambers Jan. 24 as top administrators look to lock down approval for TransformUS, the massive program review that aims to permanently axe $25 million in spending.

  • Medical college restructuring gets green light

    By January 10, 2013

    University Council voted at its late December meeting to push through a sweeping plan to restructure the College of Medicine. The plan, titled “A New Vision for the College of Medicine,” was designed with consultation from both faculty members and university administrators.

  • Sushi: Management grad sets up shop close to home

    By January 9, 2013

    Growing up, Daniel Der watched as his family’s buffet restaurant business branched out from just a few eateries in Saskatoon to a franchise of food court outlets with over 125 locations across North America. Now, after finishing a management degree from the Edwards School of Business in 2010, he’s running his own location — and it’s not far from the classrooms where he cut his teeth.

  • A wide open prairie for wild hogs: U of S researcher sounds warning bells over feral wild boar

    By November 29, 2012

    They gang up and roam the rural countryside at night, digging up farmers’ fields and terrorizing livestock. They are so cleverly elusive that they’re rarely seen. They eat whatever is in their path. They are feral wild boar and recently they have become a rowdy nuisance in the normally peaceful Saskatchewan backcountry.

  • Administrative support staff laid off in fine arts and humanities departments

    By November 29, 2012

    Five administrative staffers from the fine arts and humanities departments were laid off this week as part of the universities sweeping plan to cut $44.5 million in expenses over the next four years.

  • University braces for more belt-tightening

    By November 21, 2012

    Hundreds of faculty, staff and students descended on Convocation Hall over the lunch hour Nov. 20 as the university held its third town hall this year to update campus on its ripening strategy to slash spending by 8.5 per cent over the next four years.

  • Medical school ‘will define my term as president’: Busch-Vishniac

    By November 20, 2012

    President Ilene Busch-Vishniac stood before university council Nov. 15 and spoke with gutsy candor about her job and the future of the College of Medicine. “Here I am, five months into my tenure, and yet I know — already — the biggest challenge that we face. I know what will define my term as president. And that’s what we do with the structure of the medical school at this institution.”