Donor Impact Report 2018|2019 Message from the President
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DREAM. ACHIEVE. SUCCEED. DONOR IMPACT REPORT 2018|2019 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT In this report, we share and celebrate not only the generosity of donors like you, but also some of the stories behind your gifts. These stories underscore how your generosity has an impact on the lives of our students and allows them not only to dream about their futures, but also pursue those dreams—to achieve and succeed! We believe that donors are at the heart of student success. That’s why you’ll find our donors listed in the very centre of this report. Together, we empower our faculty and students to meet the ever-changing needs of our world. They spark innovation, and Dear friends, their research is having a positive impact I am so pleased to report on another on our world. By helping our students year of student success at the University build their knowledge and develop their of Regina, and to acknowledge that our skills today, you are helping equip them donors are at the heart of that success. to become the leaders and influencers of tomorrow. Over the past year, we were fortunate to receive a remarkable $16,525,642 from The University of Regina is engaged with 1,524 forward-thinking donors. This the community, acting as a catalyst for support is critical for our students, our change, and providing the foundation for academic and athletic programs, and growth and innovation. As donors, you the research the University undertakes in are part of that because you serve as an important areas such as mental health, inspiration and your belief in our work cultural preservation, water conservation, helps us move forward. Together, and clean energy. we educate contributors, career-ready learners, and global citizens. This past October, we celebrated the grand re-opening of the College Building. If it Thank you. were not for the generosity of the more than 550 donors who contributed to the College Avenue Campus Renewal Project, this feat would not have been possible. When our community gets behind a cause, we can generate a tremendous impact, as Dr. Vianne Timmons the beautifully revitalized College Building President and Vice-Chancellor so clearly demonstrates. And we are just getting started. Wait until you see what we have in store for Darke Hall! 02 DONOR IMPACT REPORT 2018|2019 Alexandria Ripplinger BSc’19 Jack and June Krogan Women in Science Scholarship Recipient DREAM. Encouraging greater gender balance in STEM rediting his parents for encouraging encourage more gender balance is great career options available to them that him, his three sisters, and twin for science, technology, engineering, and they should feel confident pursuing,” C brother to pursue their dreams, mathematics,” says Nevan. says Nevan. Dr. Nevan Krogan BSc’97, MSc’99 is Recipients of the Jack and June Krogan Alexandria Ripplinger BSc’19 is the now returning the favour. Women in Science Scholarship, named inaugural recipient of the award, and “They always supported us to pursue for Nevan’s mother and late father, receive is currently spending the summer in what we loved and to never be a $3,000 bursary, as well as a two-month San Francisco with the Krogan Lab. discouraged. This scholarship is my summer research experience at the Highlights of her research experience small part to help lead others in the Krogan Lab in San Francisco—fully paid. have included exposure to new lab right direction,” says Nevan. techniques—including cloning and mass spectrometry, data analysis with high- A native of Regina, Nevan attended the level software, working with researchers University of Regina from 1993 to 1999, from diverse backgrounds, and a new completing his undergraduate degree sense of independence. Alex plans to in biochemistry and graduate degree in attend graduate school and one day biology. Since then, Nevan has obtained become a pathologists’ assistant. She his PhD in medical genetics from the believes the scholarship and experience University of Toronto, authored more than will be invaluable for her graduate school 250 papers, and started the Krogan Lab at applications and future employment the University of California San Francisco. opportunities. He is highly regarded for his research in areas including HIV and cancer. Dr. Nevan Krogan with Alexandria Ripplinger “This award has underscored for me to at scholarship reception February 2019. Throughout his accomplished career, not get discouraged, to keep trying, and Nevan has noticed a lack of female seek out all the opportunities that you can. “There is a whole world of opportunities representation in the sciences. I hope that this award will inspire other in this field. I hope access to this lab women to follow their dreams and “Women are typically the best scientists experience highlights for gifted young pursue careers in science!” I encounter. Anything we can do to women scientists that there are many DONOR IMPACT REPORT 2018|2019 03 Chinenye Anokwuru Journalism Graduate Student In her native Nigeria, Chinenye obtained a bachelors degree in chemistry, but discovered her true passion was journalism. Rising through the ranks in various roles in radio and television, Chineye became manager and head of the international desk with African Independent Television. Despite her success, Chinenye set her sights higher with dreams of competing for broadcasting jobs on the global scale, and decided she needed a journalism degree. Having researched the possibilities, Chinenye made her way to Regina, excited by the array of opportunities available for media professionals. Now in the final semester of her masters degree in journalism, Chinenye is working throughout Africa on her final project, a documentary about the psychological impact of Boko Haram terrorism on its victims. Thanks to two donor-supported awards—the Rob Robbins Assignment Abroad Award and the “ I have been able to give a voice to the survivors of Award for Advanced Investigations in Society and the Human terrorism and their families due in no small part Condition—Chinenye has been able to afford the travel necessary to the funding provided by these scholarships,” for her research and interviews, and her pursuit of a seat at the says Chinenye. global journalism table. Ashley Balzer Industrial Systems Engineering Student Growing up in a small town just outside of Regina, Ashley chose the University of Regina for the strength of the Faculty of Education, and the opportunity to pursue her dreams so close to home. After her first semester in education, Ashley realized her skills and interests aligned more closely with engineering, promptly switched faculties, and has not looked back. Ashley has benefited from many donor-supported scholarships, including the Mary Denise Dopko Jackson Memorial Award, which allow her to focus on her studies rather than finding part-time jobs to pay for her education. For the past year, Ashley has been training with the University of Regina’s triathlon team, and is planning to run in the Queen City Marathon’s half-marathon. She also plans on “ It’s encouraging to know that there are donors completing a co-op term volunteering with Engineering Ministries that believe in me enough to invest their resources International—using her skills to help build schools and hospitals, in my education. I’m excited to positively impact and is interested in attending grad school for a masters degree in the lives of others in communities around the biomedical engineering. world,” Ashley says. 04 DONOR IMPACT REPORT 2018|2019 INSPIRE. Joanne Lochhead Influencing artists for generations to come enneth Lochhead LLD’89 taught artists to Saskatchewan through the workbooks valued at $716,000. The many of our province’s most University’s Emma Lake Professional University of Regina now has one of K accomplished artists. The Lochhead Artists’ Workshops, helping to start the the largest collections of Lochhead’s family is ensuring Ken’s legacy will Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery in 1953, work—with nearly 100 pieces in the continue—influencing aspiring artists and generating international attention for President’s Art Collection. Many of the for years to come. Regina’s art scene as a member of the pieces in the donation were created in Regina Five. Regina in the 1950s and 1960s, and In 1950, a young Ottawa-based painter have returned to what was Lochhead’s named Kenneth Lochhead was invited to Sadly, Ken passed away in 2006. The first artistic and academic home. They Regina by Dr. William Riddell to interview Lochhead family, however, has kept his will permanently adorn the halls of the for the role of Director of the School of memory and relationship with the University of Regina’s campuses, library, Art for Regina College (now the University University of Regina alive through their and President’s Residence. of Regina). Ken would spend 14 years acts of generosity. Ken’s wife, Joanne with the University in this role working Lochhead, has remained close to the “The time Ken spent here in Regina at College Avenue Campus teaching University for many years. She has helped shape him as a person and as hundreds of students—including artists coordinated several gifts of art an artist, so to have this collection come Joe Fafard, Anthony Thorn, and Brian on her family’s behalf, and regularly home means so much to our family,” Fisher—and creating some of his most attends University of Regina alumni says Joanne. influential work. events in her hometown of Ottawa. The generosity of the Lochhead family The six-decade-long career of one In May of 2019, the Lochhead family’s ensures that Ken’s art will continue to of Canada’s most celebrated artists largest gift yet was announced; a inspire generations of students, faculty, included bringing world-renowned collection of paintings, sketches, and staff, and the wider community.