Fourth-semester culinary students at NAIT are seeing first-hand how professional restaurants across the province are dealing with the pandemic as Ernest’s offers online orders and limited in-person dining for patrons. “We still get to be inside the kitchen, but the...
NAIT is still on track to balance its budget once students return to campus, despite reduced provincial funding, said Jeff Dumont, NAIT’s vice-president administration and chief financial officer. The institution received a 6.3 per cent reduction in funding, a bigger...
After a year of limited in-person networking opportunities, LinkedIn has become a platform for continuing education, networking, recruiting and job applications, and showcasing your best self in an online environment. Melissa Myskiw is an Academic Advisor with NAIT....
I miss the days of sticking around after class to chat with an instructor about life, grabbing drinks at the Nest with classmates, or giving people smiles as I roam the halls of campus. It’s a different world now. Last semester, I knew the faces of eight of my...
Entrepreneurship and gig work come in many forms, and Kaitlyn Walsh has been earning money from her hobbies for over a decade now through her business, ‘Kait Does It!’ Walsh has been using social media and word-of-mouth to gather work for her business which offers...
By Zachary Flynn NAIT held two open houses on Monday, February 22 for staff, students and the public to ask questions and provide feedback on the updated campus development program developed in partnership with Stantec. The current plan works with the four goals:...
By Zachary Flynn “I would like to say that I brought some form of innovation that really helped shape polytechnic education, making it more accessible to a larger audience,” said NAIT’s new president and CEO, Laura Jo Gunter, on what she would like herself to be known...
A team of researchers at NAIT are looking to set global standards in freshwater microplastic tracking. They are measuring microplastic levels in the North Saskatchewan River for the first time ever. Dr. Paolo Mussone, the chair of applied bio/nanotechnology industrial...
It’s got to be tough to be a part of a movie where 95 per cent of the cast is being out-performed by a Chimpanzee. Jack the Chimpanzee is the obvious star in the movie MVP: Most Valuable Primate. The movie follows the story of Jack, who escapes from a university once...
One north Edmonton shop owner is forced to watch his game store sit empty due to new mandatory health restrictions put in place by the Alberta Government in November. “I’d rather have the lockdown happen now than have a month of [these restrictions], and then be...
