Faculty of Management profiled in Vancouver Sun
New Dean Pedro Marquez and Professor Terry Power are the focus of a recently published story about the Faculty of Management in one of Western Canada’s widest distribution dailies. The piece appeared in a special business section entitled Outlook B.C. Knowledge. With the recent publication of Power’s textbook International Business: A Canadian Perspective on Thomson-Nelson and the arrival of Marquez at the helm of the Royal Roads business school, the story promoted the internationalization of our business programs. Read the story…

Allan Cahoon at his installation ceremony on Sept. 15.

Installation welcomes guests from across Canada
Allan Cahoon took the oath of office on Saturday, Sept. 15 on the lawn of Hatley Castle, surrounded by dignitaries, friends, family and colleagues. His acceptance speech took aim at his own generation’s poor showing at making the world a better place and spoke of the opportunities that education has to change that. Read Allan Cahoon’s installation speech…

Denmark takes a hold of venture intelligence
A system devised by RRU’s Brent Mainprize caught the attention of the Danish government. The Venture Intelligence Quotient is a system the director of the Eric Douglass Centre for Entrepreneurship at RRU developed as part of his PhD dissertation. Since then, it’s become a book and now it’s a system the Danish government will use to decide which ventures it will fund. More on VIQ

Environmental educator Hammond gives second annual Bateman lecture
Bill Hammond, a professor of ecological and marine sciences at the Florida Gulf Coast University delivered an impassioned talk about the necessary links between healthy childhood development and feeling the grass between one’s toes, or feeling the swamp up to one’s neck, in his case. The lecture culminated a week with renowned environmental education advocate Richard Louv. More about Hammond’s lecture.

Royal Roads hosts military grads and alumni for Homecoming 2007

Not sinking, just listing, the HMCS Vancouver makes a maneuvre. As the experienced crew takes it in stride, the homecoming guests cling to the lifelines to steady themselves.

It was a weekend that featured a once-in-a-lifetime experience aboard a Navy ship on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the installation of RRU's third president on the picturesque lawns of Hatley Castle. Among the other activities that alumni took part in were free professional development workshops; an outdoor corn boil with a Cajun band; a Gala dinner and dance; First Nations Drummers and Dancers; Dragon boating: Kayaking; Sightseeing Tours and Castle and Garden Tours. More on Homecoming

RRU environmental research gets national attention
The work of Royal Roads professor and researcher Matt Dodd was the subject of a major feature story in the Victoria Times Colonist this past June. The story was also picked up by the Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette and other prominent dailies across Canada. Dodd’s research is measuring the environmental impact of China’s red hot economy on the environment. Read the story…

Great grandson of Japanese garden designer returns to Hatley Park
Gardener and horticultural historian Paul Allison received an e-mail in April from an unlikely contact. It was a note from the great grandson of a man who’d visited Vancouver Island a hundred years before, to the date of the e-mail. Spurred by the death of his own father, Allison has spent the last few years researching Isaburo Kishida, the man responsible for three Japanese gardens in the Victoria area, including the one at RRU. The Royal Roads gardner’s research got the attention of a news paper in Isaburo Kishida’s home town, Yokohama. The article referred to the National Archives website which led the great grandson to contact Allison on the very day, 100 years after his great grandfather first set foot on Vancouver Island. Read the story