June 26, 2025
The torch globes are replicas of the original globes from the 1920s. The lighting around the Memorial were designed as torches to allude that the female allegorical sculpture, often referred to as Victory, Liberty or the Spirit of Newfoundland, lit the globes using the flaming torch held in her left hand.
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Sept. 18, 2026
‘Teaching is deeply relational’
Social work professor honoured with Association of Atlantic Universities teaching award
Sept. 18, 2026
A Grenfell Campus program is encouraging a deeper understanding for rural secondary students
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Finding strength in uncertainty
As a neuroscience graduate student, Shrabontee Deepanwita had hit her stride. Then illness struck
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First Space Gallery: rendering hope from a burned landscape
Sept. 16, 2026
Memorial secures $894,000 from the Hebron Project to strengthen culture of safety in field research
