MRU has received Commonwealth Sport Canada’s 2026 Partnership Excellence — Outstanding Partner Award for its longstanding collaboration through the SportWORKS program. For nearly a decade, the partnership has provided MRU students with international placements through the Queen Elizabeth Scholars initiative, supporting community sport organizations in countries including Botswana, Rwanda, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Addressing Canada’s education-to-employment pipeline, professor David Finch, PhD, explores how post-secondary systems must adapt to prepare students for a lifetime of change in The Conversation.

Dr. Marty Clark, PhD, has co-authored Competitive Junior Golf in America: A Physical Cultural Study, a new publication examining how junior golf reflects and reproduces social structures related to race, class and gender.

Addressing the trend of cutting off difficult people, Assistant Professor Gio Dolcecore explores when friendships instead require repair, change or an ending in The Conversation.