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Heidi Ulrichsen

Heidi Ulrichsen

Heidi Ulrichsen is the assistant editor at Sudbury.com. She also covers education and the arts scene. Follow her on Twitter @HeidiUlrichsen. She can be reached by email at hulrichsen@sudbury.com.

Recent Work by Heidi

‘We don't feel safe’: Laurentian academics uneasy about U.S. travel

‘We don't feel safe’: Laurentian academics uneasy about U.S. travel

The impact of American policies on Canadian researchers was a topic of discussion at a Laurentian University governing body this week
Laurentian sees 55% decrease in international applicants

Laurentian sees 55% decrease in international applicants

Although, on the bright side, new domestic students who have confirmed their attendance this fall are up 22%
International student drop prompts Cambrian to suspend 10 programs

International student drop prompts Cambrian to suspend 10 programs

Projecting a $1.4M deficit after a decade of surpluses, college hopes to ‘re-home’ affected faculty in other programs
FOI reveals 2024 cyber incident at Laurentian cost university almost $818K

FOI reveals 2024 cyber incident at Laurentian cost university almost $818K

But the Sudbury university is hoping to recover costs through an insurance claim
FOI reveals ransom demand in northern school board cyber incident

FOI reveals ransom demand in northern school board cyber incident

But board won’t say if it paid, citing sections of Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Transparency can clash with confidentiality, Laurentian senate hears

Transparency can clash with confidentiality, Laurentian senate hears

Amid reported concerns about media coverage, university secretary says open meetings are the default, but there are times when the ‘default becomes problematic’
‘High priority’: 2025 is the year that Laurentian needs to pay back its creditors

‘High priority’: 2025 is the year that Laurentian needs to pay back its creditors

‘We work on it every day,’ said Laurentian University president Lynn Wells, on completing sales of its properties to the province to fund payouts to creditors following LU’s 2022 exit from insolvency
‘It’s pretty cool’: Laurentian students can now dissect virtual bodies

‘It’s pretty cool’: Laurentian students can now dissect virtual bodies

‘You're able to actually conceptualize a human, instead of just a plastic model,’ said second-year biomedical biology student Jill Kusnierczyk of the university’s new virtual dissection table from Anatomage
School underfunding leads to spike in violence in Northeastern Ontario, teachers' unions say

School underfunding leads to spike in violence in Northeastern Ontario, teachers' unions say

At a Sudbury press conference Jan. 8, presidents of local teachers' unions say Conservative government cuts to education spending have left schools without the necessary staff to manage an increasing number of students who respond with violence to school staff
We catch up with ‘the other Son of a Critch,’ Sudbury’s Colton Gobbo

We catch up with ‘the other Son of a Critch,’ Sudbury’s Colton Gobbo

‘I'm incredibly lucky,’ says Gobbo, who also appears in the Netflix series ‘Ginny & Georgia’; fourth season of ‘Son of a Critch’ airs on CBC starting Jan. 7
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