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Despite a primarily online format for the fall semester, many University of Lethbridge students are planning to return to Lethbridge in September. A recent survey conducted by Academica Group polled responses from continuing students at Canadian post-secondary institutions on whether they would be attending their school’s city for the Fall 2020 semester. U of L students responded favorably, with 60.7 per cent of returning students expected to be in the city in September — approximately 3,800 students in total.

The University of Lethbridge’s University Hall had a little taken off the top this past week.

Being involved in research as undergraduate students at the University of Lethbridge confirmed their interest in medical school for both Dr. Harshil Patel and Kamiko Bressler (BSc ’18, MSc ’19).

University of Lethbridge researchers, in partnership with scientists at Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API), received funding from MITACS to develop a drug to treat the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Accessible Learning Centre at the University of Lethbridge is pleased to announce the first recipient of its new Inclusive Education Award. Callista Chasse, a professor in the Faculty of Health Science’s Addictions Counselling program, is recognized for the exemplary practices she uses to enrich learning experiences for students with disabilities.

75th anniversary of first nuclear detonation topic of international exhibitions by Mary Kavanagh

Canada’s plants are the middle child of species conservation in Canada, receiving far less attention than mammals and birds. Even though plants and lichens make up 37 per cent of Canada’s at-risk species, the federal funding they receive is less than a third of that number.

University of Lethbridge summer camps offered through Destination Exploration and Horns Recreation during the month of August will proceed.

New computing infrastructure will support the world-class research being done at several centres at the University of Lethbridge, including the Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre (SAGSC), the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN), the Canadian Centre for Research in Advanced Fluorine Technologies (C-CRAFT) and the Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI). The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program is providing nearly $147,000 to support the expansion.

Thanks to funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) and the University of Lethbridge, researchers will soon have access to a suite of equipment that will help them unravel the key communication events in biomolecules.