Nipissing University will bestow its highest distinction, an honorary degree, to three outstanding individuals, Debra Lynne Brown, Dr. Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jerome Berthelette, during convocation in Brantford and North Bay.

Taulu has been a volunteer, a research assistant, and now an honours thesis student with Nipissing University’s Integrative Watershed Research Centre. She has contributed to several community-based research projects in partnership with the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority.

While touring the nursing simulation lab for the Nipissing University and Canadore College Collaborative Nursing program, Nipissing’s MPP Vic Fedeli learned more about the successes and challenges of practicing as a registered nurse (RN) in Ontario’s health-care system.