With 2017 coming to a close, we wanted to know what news stories Ryerson University students felt were the biggest of this year. While answers ranged from refugee crises in Southeast Asia to sports politics next door in the United States, one thing is clear: there was no shortage of breaking news in 2017. Video…
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…