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Drs. Athan Zovoilis, a professor of bioinformatics in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Majid Mohajerani, a professor of neuroscience, have secured a grant worth $200,000 from the Alberta Prion Research Institute to study how the misfolding of proteins causes symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

The University of Lethbridge has several events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly. Lunch & Learn — Resilience in Work and in Life Tuesday, Feb. 6, noon to 1 p.m., AH137, Anderson Hall

Fourth-year Dhillon School of Business student Jill Tataryn of Lethbridge is one of 10 university business students from across the country who will be honoured with a Futures Fund Scholarship for Outstanding Leadership at Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year Gala in Toronto later this month.

WHAT: Chartered Professional Accountants Leadership & Innovation Speaker Series – It Takes a Team: Vision, Passion, Respect and Community WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 8, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Coast Lethbridge Hotel & Conference Centre TICKETS: $30 (includes dinner and keynote address) available at tinyurl.com/DarbyAllenLeth

Post-doctoral fellows at the University of Lethbridge will soon have a new administrative home with the establishment of the Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs. “We’ve had post-doctoral fellows on this campus for a number of years now,” says Dr. Robert Wood, dean of Graduate Studies and Post-Doctoral Affairs. “In the past, they were considered trainees. That changed recently with the passing of Bill 7 and now they are considered employees, creating some needs institutionally to provide further accommodation.”

The University of Lethbridge is throwing open its doors for prospective students, their families and the community on Saturday, Feb. 3 for its Exploration Open House. This is the second successive year that the University has offered a spring open house event in addition to the traditional fall open house, giving even more students the opportunity to explore campus, meet faculty and staff and discover the opportunities that await at the U of L.

The University of Lethbridge is excited to announce its first ever High School Model United Nations Conference. During the conference, students will learn how to creatively solve problems that may arise by building leadership skills, innovative thinking, teamwork, expressing ideas and listening to others.

Destination Exploration, the University of Lethbridge’s youth science program, netted a Mentorship Award at the Actua awards banquet in Ottawa recently. Actua is a Canadian charitable organization delivering science and technology experiences to youth, with membership that spans 36 colleges and universities.

Actua, the national organization that represents Destination Exploration at the University of Lethbridge, has been named the largest recipient of funding from the Government of Canada’s new CanCode program. CanCode is a $50-million fund, announced in the federal budget 2017, that supports the development of coding and digital skills for youth across Canada.

The University of Lethbridge has several events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly. Department of Religious Studies speaker Dr. Eliezer Segal Tuesday, Jan. 30, 11 a.m. to noon, AH118, Anderson Hall