News Releases

After more than a year in the making, a film documenting the lives of black settlers in Alberta and Saskatchewan and their experiences with discrimination will premiere in Edmonton during Black History Month.

Dr. Claudia Malacrida, University of Lethbridge associate vice-president (research), joins 14 other diverse Canadians in being appointed to the governing council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s science minister, announced the appointments to SSHRC, the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and research training in the humanities and social sciences, in Ottawa this week.

Beach weather in southern Alberta certainly feels as though it’s a long way off so the University of Lethbridge is bringing the beach indoors, as the theme for Play Day 2018. Image

Local youth involved in the criminal justice system are being referred to a program where they learn to play chess as part of their sentence. The Chess for Life program is a University of Lethbridge research project that aims to explore how learning to play chess affects youths’ thinking and the choices they make every day.

The University of Lethbridge is lessening its environmental footprint through the introduction of a new recycling initiative, becoming the first Canadian university to recycle Styrofoam on its own campus.

The University of Lethbridge is lessening its environmental footprint through the introduction of a new recycling initiative, becoming the first Canadian university to recycle Styrofoam on its own campus.

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. Consent Week Monday, Feb. 12 and Tuesday, Feb. 13, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Anderson Hall, UHall Atrium

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.