News

Filters
RSS
RSS
Close X

Filter by:

Limit to items where the date of the news item:
Date range
Limit to items where the date of the news item:
Limit to news where the title matches:
Limit to news items where the audience is one or more of:
Bruce White with his former math students.
Friday, April 27, 2012

Bruce White Atrium dedication

When the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ dedicated the atrium of the new Mathematics 3 building this week, the name of the generous donor who helped make it possible wasn’t on it. He wanted his high school math teacher to have that honour instead. Bruce White is a retired educator who taught Mathematics at Vincent Massey Secondary School in Windsor, Ontario. He is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Descartes Award for Outstanding Teaching in High School Mathematics. His former student, John C.R.

Monday, April 16, 2012

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ wins U. of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest

Earlier today, the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Black team (Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, Anton Raichuk) finished first in the University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest. The contest brought together all 22 Canadian and U.S. teams that have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held May 14 to 18 in Warsaw, Poland. À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ solved nine problems, beating runners-up Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. Alberta finished eighth, UBC 10th and Toronto 13th.