MAJOR CHANGE FOR LABRADOR CAMPUS

THE LABRADOR CAMPUS has had a busy and exciting first year of making change as the newest campus of Memorial University!

In September 2022, we opened the doors to our new Labrador Campus location at 171 Hamilton River Rd. in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L. With this beautiful space, we have greatly expanded our facilities, which now include a large library, archive, and learning commons, three multi-use classrooms, student gathering places and resource areas, boardrooms and meeting areas, staff offices and community spaces and a campus store.

The building is alive with our growing team and bustling with our expanding activities. And it is also alive with students! This fall, we welcomed the first cohort of the Labrador-based Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Collaborative). In May, we received even more students, as we launched our first ever graduate programs in Arctic and subarctic futures! This made-in-Labrador program has options at the graduate diploma, master’s and PhD levels, and celebrates the unique and diverse strengths and resilience of the lands, waters and peoples of the North. Our first cohort of students encompasses leaders and educators from throughout Labrador and across the North, who will continue to make positive and transformative changes for their communities and regions.

Finally, the Pye Centre for Northern Boreal Food Systems, our 80-acre research, education, community and wellness farm, continues to grow and thrive, with the 2022 growing season being our most productive yet! From a youth science camp, to multiple on-farm wellness programs and community events, to a strawberry U-Pick that saw 590 kilograms of berries harvested, to a Fall Fair that welcomed over 600 people to the farm, to the donation of over 1500 kilograms of turnips and potatoes throughout the region at Thanksgiving, it is clear that the Pye Farm is truly outstanding in its field.