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Pharmacy Technician students plan Pharmacy Awareness Month celebration

Second-year Pharmacy Technician students are busy event planning this week in preparation of the Pharmacy Awareness Month celebration on Tuesday, March 14th at Sutherland Campus. Pharmacy Awareness Month is celebrated every March to educate Canadians about the profession, and provide information on what healthcare services and advice pharmacists can offer. For their Field Prep course… Continue reading

Museum Management and Curatorship grad makes news headlines for donation request

When Fleming College graduate Allison Burnett posted a call for donations for Shelburne County Museum on local community Facebook pages, she never expected to make news headlines. But perhaps that’s because the donations Allison is collecting are for women’s underwear and lingerie from the years 1860 to 1960. The donations are for Underneath it All… Continue reading

FME Desktop Tech Expert Trent Kading reflects on whirlwind time in Fleming’s GIS program

For GIS – Applications Specialist graduate Trent Kading, his time at Frost Campus was a whirlwind. With 16 courses over the course of 10 months, intense group projects, intramural sports and on-campus events, the 2016 graduate reflects on his time in Lindsay, Ontario as being hectic. Trent came to Fleming College after earning his Bachelor… Continue reading

Fleming 50th – Founders Series Part 1

Sir Sandford Fleming College has come a long way since officially opening its doors in the fall of 1967 – with an original intake of 235 full-time students. It all began simply enough, in rooms rented above the old Colonial Coach bus terminal on King Street in Peterborough . The community would look quite different… Continue reading

Earth Resources Technician student gets golden opportunity at Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop

Garrett Hooey, second-year Earth Resources Technician student, has earned himself a spot in the hotly contested Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW). The workshop, which is hosted by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, is an all-expense paid trip to Sudbury to learn about careers in the mineral exploration and mining industries. Twenty-six of the… Continue reading

Fleming College supports #BellLetsTalk Day

Fleming College joined the national conversation about mental health on Bell Let’s Talk Day. The college hosted events at the Sutherland and Frost campuses on Wednesday, Jan. 25, and announced two initiatives to support mental health. Bell Let’s Talk Day aims to increase awareness, reduce stigma, and change attitudes about mental health issues. For every… Continue reading

Practical Nursing student prepares to take the plunge

Rachel Warren does not like the cold. The fourth-semester Practical Nursing student is known to wear a sweater on a hot summer night, which is why it surprised Rachel’s friends and family when she signed up for the 25th Annual Polar Plunge in Campbellford, Ont. The Polar Plunge is Saturday, Jan. 28, and is hosted… Continue reading

Integrated Design program coordinator Barr Gilmore creates ‘prep school’ for design and life

When creating the Integrated Design program at Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art + Design (HSAD), professor Barr Gilmore wanted to ensure students received more than a foundation in design studies. “I think of it as not only a ‘prep school’ for a life in design, but also for life itself,” he says. “I encourage… Continue reading

Rebecca Morris leaves the Biotechnology lab at Fleming to swim with sharks in South Africa

It is a challenge for Rebecca Morris to choose her most memorable day on placement. She’s seen a great white shark, which “was both terrifying and exciting”; she’s watched wild whales and dolphins on the Cetacean Project, caught a pyjama shark for a genetic sampling, and swam with sharks to clean a tank at the… Continue reading

Biotechnology student Sarina Barnes travels to Vancouver for program internship

Sarina Barnes decided to leave the comfort of her friends, family and Fleming College community to integrate theory and practice in a Biotechnology internship. Sarina was selected to complete her program internship at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Biotechnology – Advanced program internship in Semester 5 is designed to… Continue reading