The Ryerson School of Image Arts building was lit up red this week to bring awareness to the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, transgender and two-spirit people as part of a project headed by eight Ryerson students. The red lights, which reacted to real-time Twitter engagement and reflected in Lake Devo Monday,…
Ryerson Student Affairs has created a new student program aimed at mental health awareness with a focus on prevention rather than intervention. The six-week-old ThriveRU initiative emphasizes “thriving on campus” and “proactive mental health promotion,” said Dr. Diana Brecher, head of the new program and current Scholar-in-Residence for positive psychology, during a press conference at…