Graduate students

World literature and sociology graduate Ken Ip is now completing his last two terms of an MA in English—but not without already having multiple jobs under his belt.

How do different conceptions of health and healing affect our medical experiences? This question intrigued SFU student Maggie Ka-ying Tsang who, like many Hongkongers, grew up using both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine depending on the care required.

Deep in the archives below McMaster University’s library, Alix Shield held two typewritten pages containing a teenage girl’s account of rape by an RCMP officer. Large, red x’s covered the supposedly lost manuscript written 46 years earlier by Métis author Maria Campbell for her seminal autobiography, "Halfbreed".

Vanessa Milost Gonzalez, MA student co-founder of international start-up Aplica!, has won the 2019 Coast Capital Savings Venture Connection Female Founder Award along with co-founder Luciana Saldanha Fortes.

A Mitacs internship with national advertising agency Rethink Canada opens career possibilities for MA in English graduate Marie Horgan.