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September 2026 issue · 113 source-linked stories
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Alumni Digest
Your campus days end. Your curiosity doesn’t.
The people, ideas and discoveries coming out of six universities, told as stories and linked to every source.
Welcome is a designed experience Photo: Western NewsGee-Gees fans at the Panda Game. Photo: University of OttawaThe summer that brought him back Photo: Source: University of Waterloo; see original article for photo credits.UBC seaweed-derived coating keeps strawberries fresher than a fridge Photo: UBCThree graduates carry community into work Photo: Johnny Guatto
What this is
Every autumn, a university sends thousands of people back out into the world. Alumni Digest follows what happens next: the sketchbooks and first jobs, the lab doors and long ways home. Every story links to its source.
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Read the season as one story
From the first week
to the next chapter.
Six stories from five campuses, in the order a life after university tends to unfold.
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01 / 06Arrive
It starts with a room full of strangers and a sign with the school’s name on it.
Photo: University of Ottawa uOttawaA new class finds its place in Common Law
Orientation brings English- and French-language programmes together around the start of legal study.
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02 / 06Learn
Then the habits form: the sketchbook, the office hours, the questions nobody grades.
Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn U of THafsa Murtaza learns by drawing
Handwritten notes, sketches and conversations with professors helped the art and art history graduate earn a Governor General's Silver Medal.
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03 / 06Leave
Graduation is a door, not a finish line. The degree goes with you, into work, family and community.
Photo: David Trifunov UBCA language degree becomes a community practice
UBC Okanagan’s first St’át’imc language graduates are carrying immersion, teaching and family life into the next chapter of revitalization.
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04 / 06Build
Some go on to build something of their own, and a campus quietly becomes a pipeline.
Photo: University of Waterloo WaterlooA founder pipeline you can trace
PitchBook rankings put Waterloo's founder culture in a global frame.
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05 / 06Return
Many come back, this time on the other side of the convocation stage.
Photo: Western News WesternAn alum's public-service arc returns to campus
Mitch Frazer, LLB'99, brings a career in law, public institutions and community leadership back to fall convocation.
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06 / 06Give back
And eventually, the help gets passed along.
Photo: U of T Alumni News U of TA patient's gift finds another doctor
Nancy Tozer passed a treasured print to medical student Greg Dance, whose reflection on listening to patients won her over.
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The people
Faces from the fall issues.
Graduates, researchers, coaches and first-years from every campus. Choose anyone to read their story.
U of TMegan Ni takes a different course
WesternThe hidden world that can make you feel seen: how cataloguing creates community
U of TKimia Karachi finds confidence backstage
WesternA social scientist in the room
U of TDevelopment starts with listening locally
UBCBill Millerd
uOttawaJulie Cafley begins by listening
U of THeather Stark reads the story behind numbers
UBCFantastic plastic
U of TNeil Price brings community into scholarship
WesternA research partnership with a route to impact
WaterlooEngineering leadership, before forty
WesternForecasting the storms ahead
U of TSidoné Grange studies viruses and builds community
WesternExpert explainer: Strategies to improve childhood vaccination uptake
UBCCole Walliser
WaterlooA fellow in information retrieval
U of TBenji Jacob finds room to grow
WesternWestern researchers earn $16.3M in CIHR funding
WesternHuntington Society of Canada Research Chair advances innovative approaches to future treatment
WesternIsis So wins Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award
WaterlooLearning from the frightening failure
U of TYan Wu brings art into everyday spaces
U of TMarika Warner puts movement to work
WesternWestern receives $9.8M in federal SSHRC funding
uOttawaWhat it means to belong without citizenship
WaterlooFour Waterloo-founded bets
WesternWhen scholarship changes the law
U of TVeronica Wu weighs her next kitchen move
U of TFamily experience belongs in the research room
WaterlooThe rules around the model
WesternMusic's next chapter, with Sophie Roland
uOttawaWellbeing starts with what matters to you
U of TLellow Sedio returns on her terms
WaterlooThe work term becomes an AI lab
UBCFinding a focus in fashion
WesternWestern expert: Why numeracy screening is essential for kids
WaterlooCommunity is a mathematical advantage
U of TThe magazines that carried gay liberation
U of TRidwan Iqbal makes room for others
WesternLet the disciplines cross
U of THilda Gan carries nursing into business
U of TEmily Hunter keeps organizing through change
U of TAn email opens the laboratory door
U of TLiam Kaufman brings neuroscience into software
uOttawaBuilding the evidence for care in French
WesternAn entrepreneur learns to build with a longer view
WaterlooA psychologist builds the tool he needs
UBC“The land of misfit toys”
U of TRobert Chung follows the difficult questions
WesternThe careful way back
UBCLife on the edge
WaterlooPrivacy as infrastructureThe issues
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Every campus.
The same curiosity, rooted in each community. 6 editions so far, every issue free to read in full. Your campus comes first.
University of British Columbia
A wider view from campus.
September 2026 issue · 53 source-linked stories
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Inside the issues
Ideas lead every edition. Western’s is the most research-heavy.
Share of each issue’s stories by desk category.
U of T69 stories
UBC53 stories
Western65 stories
Waterloo54 stories
uOttawa55 stories
72%of Western’s 65 stories are Ideas, the highest share of any edition. Waterloo and UBC lean furthest into Community (37% and 36%). People profiles are 49 of 296.
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Hafsa Murtaza learns by drawing
Handwritten notes, sketches and conversations with professors helped the art and art history graduate earn a Governor General's Silver Medal.
Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn
A night under the stadium lights
The alumni UBC Summer Series makes room for a shared soccer ritual.
Photo: alumni UBCMusic's next chapter, with Sophie Roland
A scholar, mezzo-soprano and educator takes the Don Wright Faculty of Music into a new five-year term.
Photo: Western News
An Arts degree, a global brief
Brigitte Nolet brings a Waterloo education to the question of who can access medicines.
Photo: Source: University of Waterloo; see original article for photo credits.
Seven students challenge exchange anxieties
Firsthand experiences put cost and preparation into perspective.
Photo: University of OttawaRobert Chung follows the difficult questions
A mathematics and computer science graduate found his teachers, teammates and toughest ungraded problems more useful than a rigid study routine.
Photo: U of T Alumni NewsFantastic plastic
Jordan MacKenzie’s team has created a bio-based alternative to single-use plastic.
Photo: Richard LittlemoreLet the disciplines cross
Computer science and creative writing meet in Cadence McGillicuddy's student writer-in-residence year.
Photo: Western News
The introduction after the pitch
At Velocity, alumni help the next generation reach people they could not reach alone.
Photo: Source: University of Waterloo; see original article for photo credits.
Two medical researchers join a national academy
Rob Beanlands and Michael Seto are elected health-sciences fellows.
Photo: University of OttawaNeil Price brings community into scholarship
The OISE graduate's doctoral work examines exclusion in universities and the collective practices Black scholars use to sustain their work.
Photo: Submitted photo
Should Canada dispense with its tipping culture?
Six UBC experts share their perspectives.
Photo: Richard Littlemore
Seeing the pressure inside a reactor
A five-year Western project maps hidden stresses in CANDU pressure tubes at a scale of about 200 nanometres.
Photo: Western News
A life beyond the rink
For Kristin O’Neill, graduate study created room for another kind of ambition.
Photo: Source: University of Waterloo; see original article for photo credits.
An internship lesson learned on the playing field
Shuhan Shi describes how sport creates connection in Ghana.
Photo: University of Ottawa
A patient's gift finds another doctor
Nancy Tozer passed a treasured print to medical student Greg Dance, whose reflection on listening to patients won her over.
Photo: U of T Alumni NewsCole Walliser
From the Pit Pub to the red carpet.
Photo: Richard Littlemore
Purple and proud, in motion
OWeek turns the first days of term into a shared vocabulary of welcome, play and service.
Photo: Western NewsNo stories match that search. Try a campus name or a broader word.
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