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Dr. Gerlinde Metz, a neuroscientist at the University of Lethbridge’s Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, and a team of researchers have received a $225,000 grant from the Canadian Space Agency to build a better understanding of how the human body adapts to life in space.

The students are coming!

Media are invited to see the class in action on Friday, Aug. 29, at 10:30 a.m.First-year students at the University of Lethbridge are taking advantage of the Early Start Experience program in record numbers. This year, the two-week, full-credit course that helps incoming new students connect with university life before classes start has the most participants ever at close to 100.

The Dhillon School of Business at the University of Lethbridge has established a new award to be given annually to a graduating Indigenous student who exemplifies academic achievement, cultural integrity and outstanding character.Brayden Day Chief is the first recipient of the Poomaksin Pens Award, which consists of the pen set and $500, because of his academic success and his vision for leadership in business and governance.

Once again, Lethbridge Polytechnic and the University of Lethbridge are inviting the public to a free pancake breakfast during Whoop-Up Days.

Powerchair athletes will descend on Lethbridge for the first-ever Alberta Powerchair Hockey Tournament at the University of Lethbridge’s Centre for Sport and Wellness from Aug. 8 to 10.

Ward Bros. Construction has been selected to renovate the Centre for Community Wellbeing (CCW), on the University of Lethbridge campus, which will house the new Southern Alberta Medical Program (SAMP). An innovative partnership between the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) and ULethbridge, SAMP offers students the opportunity to earn a UCalgary medical degree while completing their training in southern Alberta.

A familiar space in Lethbridge is being reimagined for the future of health care, and for the learners who are interested in delivering care to rural and regional southern Alberta communities.

Board of Governors Research Chair in Comparative Neuroscience has co-authored new book on avian behaviour, available Aug.

A new chapter in Alberta’s medical education system has begun.