Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday December 08, 2025, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the current weather, poor travel conditions and King's Transit cancelling service for the day. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled. All exams scheduled for today will be rescheduled to a later date.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday December 8, 2025 @ 11:34 am)

Faculty & Staff

Randy Newman: Head of Department. Cognitive neuroscience; reading; speech and language processing; women in science.

Jenna Watson-Findley: Department Administrative Assistant.

Full-time Faculty

Gregory Anderson: Industrial/organizational psychology; empathy; motivation; work outcomes.

Kathryn Bell: Clinical psychology; interpersonal violence; addiction; relational and mental well-being.

Karmen Bleile: Cognitive psychology; attention; memory retrieval; response selection.

Daniel Blustein: Computational neuroscience; sensorimotor control; neuroprosthetics; neurorehabilitation.

Anne Sophie Champod: Clinical neuropsychology; cognitive neuroscience; stroke; spatial neglect.

Andrew Daoust: Clinical psychology; childhood psychopathology; gender/sex differences.

Stephanie Gauvin: Clinical psychology; human sexuality; sexual and relational well-being.

Joseph Hayes: Social psychology; personality; death; terror management.  

Stephanie Jones: Cognitive psychology; attention; cognitive function in disease (Parkinson's and stroke).

Daniel Lametti: Cognitive neuroscience; psycholinguistics; speech and language processing; artificial intelligence.

Ken Raj Leslie: Cognitive neuroscience; sleep and dreaming; consumer neuroscience.

Cara MacInnis: Social psychology; intergroup relations; prejudice; negative attitudes towards groups.

Matthew Orr: Developmental, social, and health psychology; sleep and dreaming; social media use in children and youths.

Dawn Ryan: Developmental cognitive neuroscience; episodic memory; memory and performance in older adults.

Professors Emeriti & Retired Faculty

Darlene Brodeur

Diane Holmberg

Peter Horvath

Peter McLeod

Pat O'Neil

Lisa Price

Doug Symons

Part-Time Faculty

Glen Berry

Carla Di Giorgio

Scott Furlotte