NOVEMBER 26, 2014   Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter 
Welcome to The Compass
From now until September, you will receive regular issues of The Compass to help you navigate your way to Trent.  The Compass will feature important admissions updates, a special glimpse into life at Trent, stories and advice from current students, and Trent news highlights.

SPOTLIGHT ON TRENT
Fall Preview Photo Gallery

Trent University welcomed over 2700 prospective students and their families during the annual Fall Preview open house events at the Durham Campus on Nov 8 and Peterborough Campus on November 15.

"There is nothing better than seeing future students exploring campus and picturing themselves as a student here with such excitement about embarking on the next chapter of their life" said Jessica Lee, Enrolment Advisor at Trent.

 


50 Years of Trent University
50 Years of Excellence

Over the past 50 years, Trent has grown from a budding institution with 100 students to one of Canada's leading universities, with 40,000 alumni, award-winning faculty, and world-class research and teaching facilities.

What has remained a constant is that the individual student has always been front and centre. Trent maintains its small student-to-faculty ratio to create a personal experience where your professor will know your name and you can share your perspective.

Watch this video to learn more about the evolution and growth of the University.
STUDENT INSIGHT
Why Trent? A First Year Student's Perspective
By: Scott Gardner, first-year Journalism student

So it's your senior year of high school, which means it's time to take that massive step into university that everyone has been hyping up for the past four years of your life. We've all been in the position you're in now. Surfing the web, taking virtual tours and wishing your grades were higher than they are. If you're anything like me you might be noticing that all these schools seem so similar. They all claim to have world-renowned this, or prestigious that, so what sets them apart? Well you've come to the right place, this is an honest account of how great Trent is from a first-year student who was in your shoes just one year ago.

Let me tell you about the three main reasons I made Trent my new home, and why I am happier with my decision every day.

KEY DATES & REMINDERS
January 14: Recommended deadline for Ontario secondary school  students to submit 101 applications to the Ontario Universities' Application Centre. Applications after this date will be accepted.

Safe Sender List: Once you apply, you will begin to receive emails from Trent Admissions outlining next steps and other important information to the email identified in your OUAC application. Please ensure you add "@trentu.ca" to your 'Safe Senders' list in the email used for your application.

View all dates & deadlines at trentu.ca/applicantdeadlines
TRENT NEWS & EVENTS
Arctic Research Opportunity Opens Doors (and Awards) for Trent Student
Kristyn Foster has always had a passion for exploring and for the outdoors. This past summer, Ms. Foster, now a fourth-year Geography student at Trent, put her love of the outdoors to the test when she travelled to the Arctic to work alongside a Trent professor and a Trent graduate student researching the carbon balance of tundra ecosystems at the Daring Lake Tundra Ecology Research Station - a field station located in a small fly-in camp 300 km north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Read full story...

Rosetta Comet Landing Comes to Fruition with Help from Trent Prof
Professor Raymond March has long been a pioneer in the field of mass spectrometry, a technique to identify the chemical composition of an unknown substance. He was one of the first to build a Quadrupole Ion Trap, or QIT, a device that confines and controls ions using radio frequency electric fields - and he built it in the early 1970s within the Science Complex on Trent's Symons campus, long before the device's widespread use in industry and academia.  Read full story...

First-Year Student Receives Celebrated Scholarship from Forests Ontario
First-year Trent University student, Maddie Trottier, has been recognized for her achievements as a young environmental steward, winning the 2014 James S. Miller Memorial Scholarship from Forests Ontario in partnership with the Algoma Envirothon program. Read full story...

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