2025 Summer - For the Women’s Volleyball Mounties, this season was about redemption. After falling short in last year’s ACAA Championship game to King’s — and with eight seniors on the roster — the time to win a championship was now.
2025 Winter - Mount Allison Mounties Women’s Hockey Head Coach Addie Miles-Abbott served as assistant coach at the 2025 FISU Winter World University Games, which took place from Jan. 13–25, 2025 in Torino, Italy.
2024 Fall - Mountie Pride has been echoing through Mounties Athletics — and indeed across campus — for more than a decade. It’s been the mantra that has united the Mount Allison Athletics community.
But where did it originate?
2024 Summer - Mature and first-generation student Heidi-Lyn O’Connor always loved school and wanted to attend university, but life took her in a different direction.
2024 Winter - Growing up in Toronto, fourth-year music student and Bell Achievement Award recipient Emma Yee had every opportunity to immerse herself in the world of performing arts.
2023 Summer - Throughout the 2022-23 academic year, three Mount Allison community engaged learning students — Madeleine de Ste-Croix, Leor Handelsman, and Galen Juliusson — joined forces with Moncton non-profit the Autism Resource Centre (ARC) to create an outdoor education program for neurodivergent students
2023 Winter - Tess Casher has been awarded a 2023 Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Oxford — the 56th Allisonian to receive this honour.
2022 Summer - The 2022 Convocation ceremonies at Mount Allison were historic for several reasons.
2022 Winter -
Over the course of her nearly 40-year career, Mount Allison biology lab instructor and technician Gay Hansen developed the well-earned reputation as a true teacher, mentor, and naturalist — inspiring hundreds of students in her l
2021 Fall - Third-year international relations student Ainsley Cunningham grew up in Sackville, NB.
2021 Winter - COVID-19 stopped the professional sports world in its tracks this past year — just like it did the rest of the world. Travel was restricted. Major events were cancelled. Bubbles were created. Seasons shortened. Playoffs re-imagined.
2020 Fall - Executive members of this year’s Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) were freshly elected and appointed to their new roles just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit in mid-March 2020, forcing the closure of campus and the move to online education and services.
2020 Summer - The sixth annual Last Lecture, recognizing graduates for their contributions to the Mount Allison and Sackville communities, was held virtually for the first time on May 1, 2020.
2019 Fall - This past summer more than 60 students gained valuable experience as interns with a number of organizations on campus, in the region, and beyond.
2019 Summer - In 2005 Caley Webster came to visit Mount Allison from Ontario on the recommendation of family friends who are alumni. As they drove past the Waterfowl Park, they stopped to let a pheasant cross the road.
2019 Winter - Eli Wood, a first-year psychology student from Weymouth, NS, was honoured this fall with the Discovery Centre’s Youth Award for his research and device that seeks
2019 Winter - Katherine Reiss (’19) is not your average university student.
2018 Fall - There are few archaeological treasures that have captured the world’s imagination like Pompeii, from the moment it was rediscovered 270 years ago to present day, when teams continue the painstaking work of uncovering the lost city.
2018 Summer - Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and community members braved a late March snowstorm to attend the University’s first powwow.
2018 Winter - Honours history student Colin Robertson became part of Mount Allison's history this year as the University's 54th Rhodes Scholar. Robertson is one of only 11 students selected across Canada to receive the award.
2017 Fall - It’s a Saturday morning in early September. Biology and psychology student Erica Geldart (’18) is on the road.
2017 Summer - New Zealand exchange student Marley Richards knew nothing about Canada before he arrived to study at Mount Allison in January 2016. Now, over a year later, he has seen more of the country than most Canadians.
2017 Summer - Third-year student Shaelyn Vlaar spent last semester on exchange in Otago, New Zealand at the University of Otago. An anthropology major, she was interested in completely immersing herself in another country.
2017 Winter - Fourth-year Music student (voice/piano) Branden Olsen began playing the piano at the age of four and was involved in musicals and band in high school.
2016 Fall - Emma Hassencahl’s art speaks.
Hassencahl, a fourth-year Fine Arts student specializing in painting and printmaking, puts a great amount of thought into creating pieces with many-layered messages.
“I just want people to stop and think about an issue for a second,” she says.
2016 Summer - There will be a few more Allisonians on Parliament Hill this September. Three of 10 students selected nationally for the Parliamentary Internship Programme (PIP) are Mount Allison graduates.
2015 Fall - Claire Henderson-Hamilton (’16), a philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) student from Montreal, QC, spent this past summer working for the non-governmental organization (NGO), Inter Pares — Globalize Equality.
2016 Winter - Nathan Kelly is not your typical university student. There are not many psychology majors who can add pro-racer to their title before earning their degree. But this Allisonian has done just that, pursuing a career as a professional racecar driver and his undergraduate degree simultaneously.
The seventh annual Last Lecture, recognizing graduates for their contributions to the Mount Allison and Sackville communities, was held virtually for the second year in a row on April 29, 2021.