University of New Brunswick - Notable Facts and Milestones

Notable Facts and Milestones

• UNB was the only institution to grant both President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy Honorary Doctorates in their lifetimes.
• UNB owns 7,700 acres (3,100 ha) of real property in several sites, including an extensive wood lot adjacent to the Maritime Forestry Complex, formerly used for forestry education and research. Until 1968, the university had the power to expropriate land "it may deem necessary for the purpose of the University" without approval from the government.
• The Faculty of Computer Science in Fredericton was the first computer science faculty in Canada, and it went on to develop the first software engineering degree program in Atlantic Canada.
• UNB Saint John was the first university in Canada to offer an e-business program with its bachelor of business administration in electronic commerce. The university has since been ranked by Canadian Business Magazine as first in e-business.
• UNB offered Canada's first university-level engineering program, established in 1855. The first engineers graduated in 1857.
• The university has the longest running undergraduate forestry program in Canada, and its forest engineering program is the only accredited program of its kind in Canada.
• UNB's Planetary Space Science Centre is the only NASA-supported planetary imaging facility in Canada.
• UNB’s Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture does work in Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, the Mediterranean, South America, Australia and Antarctica.
• UNB’s Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society is one of the few research institutes in Canada and the U.S. studying the role of climate change in current and future conflicts.