Acadia University is a public,predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville,Nova Scotia,Canada,with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level. The enabling legislation consists of the Acadia University Act and the Amended Acadia University Act 2000.
Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley,Kings County,Nova Scotia,located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of the provincial capital,Halifax. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School.
The Acadia Divinity College (ADC) is Baptist theological institute located in Wolfville,Nova Scotia,Canada. It is affiliated with the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada. It is governed by a board of trustees with members appointed by the Convention and the Board of Governors of Acadia University. The college is also the Faculty of Theology of Acadia University.
Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis. Following a PhD in 1956 from the University of Manchester,he undertook postdoctoral research with Har Gobind Khorana at the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada. Subsequently,Smith worked at the Fisheries Research Board of Canada Laboratory in Vancouver before being appointed a professor of biochemistry in the UBC Faculty of Medicine in 1966. Smith's career included roles as the founding director of the UBC Biotechnology Laboratory and the founding scientific leader of the Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence (PENCE). In 1996 he was named Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology. Subsequently,he became the founding director of the Genome Sequencing Centre at the BC Cancer Research Centre.
Norman Kempton Atkins was a Canadian Senator and a political figure in Canada.
The Acadia Students' Union represents the undergraduate students at Acadia University in Wolfville,Nova Scotia,Canada. They are a member of the Canadian Alliance of Students Associations (CASA) and StudentsNS.
Donald H. Oliver is a Canadian lawyer,developer and politician. Appointed by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,Oliver served in the Senate of Canada from 1990 until 2013. He was the first black male to sit in the Senate and the second black Canadian appointed to the chamber.
Howard Primrose Whidden was a Canadian churchman,member of Parliament,educator,scholar,avid skier,and editor of Canadian Baptist.
Theodore Harding Rand was a Canadian educator and poet.
Esther Isabelle Clark Wright,was a notable Atlantic Canadian historian who at the end of her life received the Order of Canada for her lifetime contributions to Canadian scholarship. She published many works in relation to her historic and genealogical research and was best known for her pioneer and genealogy studies of Nova Scotia &New Brunswick,Canada.
William Henry Brackney (1948-2022) is also the Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Thought and Ethics Emeritus at Acadia University in Wolfville,Nova Scotia,and an ordained Baptist minister,presently accredited by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and the American Baptist Churches,USA. He was previously the Dean of Theology at McMaster University in Hamilton,Ontario,and has published numerous books and articles dealing with post-Reformation Protestant thought,particularly the Baptist and Radical Reformation traditions. Most recently,Brackney has done significant work in the areas of global ethics and human rights,and was the director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (2008–2018). He is also a regular columnist for websites focused on ethics.
Leslie Gordon Jaeger CM FCAE FEIC FCSCE FRSE was a distinguished British and Canadian academic and engineer.
Paul Eric Kinsman,was a Canadian physician and politician in the province of Nova Scotia. He served in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a MLA for the constituencies of West Kings (1963–1967) and Kings South (1984). He was also Mayor of Wolfville,Nova Scotia from 1974 to 1976.
William Pearly Oliver worked at the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church for twenty-five years (1937–1962) and was instrumental in developing the four leading organizations to support Black Nova Scotians in the 20th century:Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1945),the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission (1967),the Black United Front (1969) and the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia (1983). He was instrumental in supporting the case of Viola Desmond. Oliver was awarded the Order of Canada in 1984.
Oluwole Babafemi Familoni is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lagos and member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria. Between 2000 and 2002,he was the Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Science of the University of Lagos. He was appointed the Head of the Department of Chemistry between 2002 and 2005. He later became the Dean of Science between 2008 and 2012. He is a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science,elected into the academy's fellowship at its Annual General Meeting held in January 2015. He is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos. Professor Familoni is the International Representative for Royal Society of Chemistry,London for Southern Nigeria.
William Henry Chase was an entrepreneur and philanthropist in Nova Scotia,Canada. He was known as "the apple king of Nova Scotia".
Arthur William (Bill) Cox,was a Canadian lawyer,practising in Halifax,Nova Scotia. He served overseas during World War II. On his return to Canada,he became an active member of the legal profession,serving as president of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society (1971–1972),the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (1975–1976) and the Canadian Bar Association. He was also active politically,with both the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
Helen Dorothy Beals was a Canadian artist and educator. She is known for her involvement with the Maritime Art Association and the publication "Maritime Art Magazine".
Raymond E. Ivany, is a Canadian executive. He was the President and CEO of Nova Scotia Community College,Executive Vice President at Cape Breton University,and President and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia University.
Deborah Lynn MacLatchy is a Canadian ecotoxicologist and comparative endocrinologist. She is the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University,having formally led the International Office at the University of New Brunswick. She also served as President and Council Member of the Canadian Society of Zoologists and Chair of the Science Directors of the Canadian Rivers Institute. In 2012,MacLatchy was recognized as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women in a Top 100 list compiled by the Women’s Executive Network.
