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#USask Convocation ceremonies begin today! Congratulations #USaskClassOf2026!
Here’s how our graduates are leading change here at home and around the world: students.usask.ca/graduatingclas…
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#USask is a place where everything comes together to create the perfect environment for teaching, learning, research, innovation, and discovery.
- New vaccination measures for fall term: #USask will expect all students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated this fall with World Health Organization-approved COVID-19 vaccines before entering USask campuses. bit.ly/2XfxNwn
- A major milestone: A #COVID19 vaccine candidate developed by the #USask @VIDOInterVac is moving towards human clinical trials after the novel vaccine has proven highly effective in ferrets, one of the commonly used animal models for COVID-19. bit.ly/2ZzxThG
- A #USask research team and collaborating scientists from across the country have been awarded $1 million to develop animal models and test vaccine candidates for effectiveness and safety against the new #coronavirus. @VIDOInterVac bit.ly/2IpQsen
- Actor @KimFCoates receives his Honorary Doctor of Letters at #usaskconvo - says he is proud to come from Sask. news.usask.ca/media-release-…
- Protect the Pack: To be able to safely offer more in-person instruction and campus activities, #USask will require anyone on our campuses or in our workplaces to be fully vaccinated, beginning at the start of the Winter Term. bit.ly/3w1Z9ne
- ANNOUNCEMENT: The PM has announced $12 million for new vaccine manufacturing at the #USask @VIDO-InterVac, part of $23.3 million for the lab to fight #COVID19 and other infectious disease threats #coronavirus bit.ly/2WEXvIm
- As seen on Saturday Night Live: As if being a top U15 research university in Canada wasn’t enough, now #USask is SNL famous. ⭐️🐾 #HuskiePride | #LeadThePack @HuskieAthletics
- The Gov’t of Canada announced $59.2 million to the #USask @VIDOInterVac to support the development of vaccine candidates and the expansion of its research facilities, including a National Centre for Pandemic Research.
- .@KimFCoates to take centre stage when he is awarded an honorary degree at #usask Spring Convocation in #YXE bit.ly/2owhJnU
- “We have come together and worked tirelessly for the common good.” Nearly 25,000 #USask students, faculty and staff have submitted their vaccine status – of those who have done so, 91 per cent are fully vaccinated.
- One hundred made-in-Sask ventilators will soon be available to support the needs of the province’s residents, thanks to an innovative collaboration among #USask, @SaskHealth, and RMD Engineering Inc. bit.ly/3lCHThx
- Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau paid tribute to the contributions #USask has made to scientific discovery, as he wrapped up his visit to campus on Wednesday.
