Around the North

A $250,000 donation from CIBC will go towards student scholarships at Laurentian University's Faculty of Management. The Faculty of Management includes the School of Commerce and the School of Sports Administration.

Vale has donated $150,000 to the Human League's PLAY program, which enables extracurricular activities for children with financial hardship.

The Manitoulin Wind and Solar Institute is hosting a three-day renewable energy conference in Sudbury, the focus of which will be the Northern Ontario Growth Plan and the 2011 Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP). Green-X1 will be held Feb.

Essar Steel Algoma reported positive EBITDA of $30.2 million and a net loss of $50.8 million for the three-month period ending December 31, 2011 on shipments of 635,308 tons.

Nominations are open for positions on the board of directors for the Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce. The chamber is seeking members who are in good standing to stand for a two-year term. Candidates' names must be submitted by 5 p.m.

Sault College has been deemed eligible to administer funds through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Prodigy Gold said it is on schedule with its plans to revive the dormant Magino Mine near Wawa, and put it back into production by 2015. In a Feb.

Vale miners in Sudbury are heading back to work with a renewed focus on safety after a fatal accident last month forced the company to shut down its entire five-mine operation. In a Feb.

Sault College is the recipient of $1.79 million in provincial funding, which will go towards the establishment of programs to provide First Nations students with employment skills in renewable energy.

Raising research funds, increasing enrolment and modernizing its campus are amongst the goals in Laurentian University's five-year strategic plan released Feb. 6.