Social Media Takeover

In 2025, as part of the Banting House November is Diabetes Awareness Month program, students from Professor Michelle Hamilton’s HIS 9807 course staged a social media ‘takeover’. Over the course of four weeks, the students reviewed the museum’s social media and brand policies, and produced series of posts, one theme per week. Bringing Frederick Banting to the present, the students focused on Banting’s views on supporting research in Canada, his impact on medicine and research using examples from our Dear Dr. Banting collection, and profiling Diabetes Canada funded researchers to commemorate Diabetes Canada’s 50^th anniversary of funding research in Canada.

IMPACT

Students: Claire, Kim, and Erin

Week: November 9 – 15, 2025

Theme: Highlighting the impact that Banting has on medicine and research for the future.

FUNDING CANADIAN RESEARCH

Students: Rylee, Audrey, and Helen

Week: November 16 – 22, 2025

Theme: Highlighting Banting’s opinions about the importance of funding Canadian research and the impact that that funding has had on diabetes research (or as we call it, the original “Elbow’s Up”)

50 YEARS OF RESEARCH

Students: Grace, Beth, and Haley

Week: November 23 – 29, 2025

Theme: Highlighting profiles on researchers and the artifacts in our new exhibit to celebrate how far diabetes research has come in the last 50 years.