Alumni and Friends

Your affiliation with the University of Regina affords you many personal benefits. As an alumnus you can access valuable services offered exclusively to you by our affinity partners - Manulife, TD Home and Auto Insurance, and Degree frames from Milburn Universal Designs. The U of R offers many opportunities for alumni and friends to keep in touch, learn, and make new connections.

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Every year, the University of Regina celebrates the best and brightest among its more than 92,000 alumni with the Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards (ACAAs). This year’s recipients include educators, leaders, community advocates, and entrepreneurs – and are living embodiments of the University of Regina’s motto: As One Who Serves.

Timothy Long BFA’86, BAHons’86, retiring head curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, chats with Degrees magazine about his extraordinary career, and Whispers from the Vault, the final exhibition Long curated before his retirement in fall 2024. The show, which runs until June 16, 2025, is drawn solely from the gallery’s Permanent Collection, on which Long has become the definitive expert over the 35 years he’s worked there. “People kept asking me if [the works in the show] are my favourite works from the vault. I said, ‘No. These are my favourite stories connected to works from the vault.’” 

 
As the University of Regina looks ahead to equipping the next generation of journalists and communicators with its new BA in Journalism, News Media and Communication, Degrees caught up with four School of Journalism alumni. Whether reporting from Washington,the Paris Games, or rewriting the narrative with Indigenous storytelling, Kerry Benjoe BA’00, MJ’20, Devin Heroux BJ’12, Kelly Malone BAJ’13, and Dani Wawryk BAJ ’09 are at the top of their game in an ever-changing industry.

 
Since 2021, Jeff Gamble BAHons’98 and other members of Nature Regina have volunteered to spend mornings at the peak of the spring and fall migratory seasons, searching for and collecting birds that have collided with buildings in Regina’s downtown. In just a few years, the volunteers have collected hundreds of birds, most of them dead. The toll across Canada is grim, Gamble says. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, it’s estimated that up to 42 million birds die each year from window collisions, although the number may be higher.