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Questions beyond majors: developing mental maturity in students
Check out this piece published in the Times Higher Education on how self-directed learning benefits undergraduates. This article was written by Quest Life Sciences Tutor, Dr. Marjorie Wonham, and former Quest Chief Academic Officer and tutor, Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot who also recently published an article in Studies of Higher Education titled “Questions instead of majors:…
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Quest Alumnus Rayyan Chanda ’22 and Quest Academic Dean Halia Valladares Win Award at AIB Conference
At the most recent Academy of International Business (AIB) conference Quest student Rayyan Hamza Chanda was recognized for Best Undergraduate/Graduate Student Paper. His paper, entitled The Future of Supply Chain Management: Introducing Circularity, was the result of a collaboration with Quest Academic Dean Halia Valladares. Rayyan and Halia first began chatting about their shared research…
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Stand Up Science returns to Squamish
Stand Up Science is returning to Squamish this month! Stand Up Science is a student-led initiative that began several years ago, in response to one tutor’s challenge to her mentees to combat anti-science sentiment while sharing the fascinating research being done at Quest with the local community. The format they designed combines the informal, multi-speaker…
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Film Screening of Where do we stand?
Join us at Quest on Saturday, September 18th at 7pm for a screening of the first public screening of local filmmaker Niall Hart’s film, Where Do We Stand? Where Do We Stand? is a Squamish story. It is a documentary about the consultation process surrounding project approval for industry, specifically Woodfibre LNG. You can find…
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Upcoming: Wool Weaving Workshop
On September 27th, Quest University is hosting a wool weaving workshop led by Tsawaysia Spukwus of the Squamish Nation. Squamish Nation member and educator Tsawaysia Spukwus, also well-known in the community as Alice Guss, has been weaving for ten years and making drums for twenty years. Join to learn a new skill and get in touch with…
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Upcoming: Wool Weaving Workshop
On September 27th, Quest University is hosting a wool weaving workshop led by Tsawaysia Spukwus of the Squamish Nation. Squamish Nation member and educator Tsawaysia Spukwus, also well-known in the community as Alice Guss, has been weaving for ten years and making drums for twenty years. Join to learn a new skill and get in touch with…
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Every Bird, Bee, Mollusk and Tree
Andrew Simon, a Quest alum, is leading Galiano residents in a project to document every species on their island home. [This is a teaser story made of excerpts from the full and fascinating article over at The Tyee!] One of the first steps of the project was collecting the names of every species that had…
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Pride Month Through a Quest Student’s Eyes
Gerhardt Troan (he/she/they) is a fourth-year student at Quest, originally from Langley, British Columbia. In their years at Quest, Gerhardt has been coordinator to the Lumen Room, performer at Cabaret, both to the Quest Annual Drag Show, and speaker alongside Pride Squamish on the Squamish Welcome Centre’s panel on LGBTQ2S+ and Queer Experiences in Squamish.…
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Quest Announces New President
Quest University Canada has announced Dr. Arthur Coren as its new President and Vice-Chancellor. He will assume his new post on June 1st, 2022. Dr. Coren succeeds Dr. George Iwama, who is stepping down from the position after leading the university since 2017. Dr. Iwama was named President Emeritus to enthusiastic cheering during this year’s…
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From Question to Answer: Building a Green Business with Juan Pablo Alcocer
While studying at Quest University, Juan Pablo Alcocer’s Question was, “How can one create and develop a green business?” Today, he is providing an answer to that question by launching his own green business, Casa Akaw, building a sustainable housing community for surfers and digital nomads in Mexico. Casa Akaw consists of 18 tiny homes…
