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The University of Lethbridge has a number of 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. Destination Exploration — 2016 Science & Technology Camps Three camps are in session this week. All camps are held in the Alberta Water and Environmental Science Building. Media are invited to come between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Please check in at reception.

WHAT: The U3T MRI Centre at the University of Lethbridge will officially open with a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house WHEN: Thursday, July 7, 1-4 p.m. WHERE: The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge (east entrance)

Lethbridge-based lawyer and University of Lethbridge alumnus Kurt Schlachter (BSc ’00) has been appointed Chair of the U of L’s Board of Governors – the 10th in the University’s history.

The University of Lethbridge has a number of 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. Destination Exploration — 2016 Science & Technology Camps Three camps are in session this week: Leaders in Training

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto announced their intention to strengthen educational ties between the two countries.

Children aged five to 16 have the opportunity to enjoy a variety of science based and recreational activities at the University of Lethbridge this summer through the Learning Quest Summer Science Camps.

University of Lethbridge researchers have been awarded $2.2 million in new funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Media are invited to speak with the researchers and see the lab at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 28 A state-of-the-art optical imaging lab in the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN) is giving University of Lethbridge scientists a leg up in unlocking the secrets of how our brains function. Two-and-a-half years in the making, this lab is giving new insight into neurological disorders such as stroke or Alzheimer’s disease.

The University of Lethbridge’s Associate Vice-President (Research), Dr. Claudia Malacrida, has been invited to take part in an independent review of the manner in which the federal government provides funding for fundamental science

Ian Veenendaal, a doctoral student in Dr. David Naylor’s astrophysics lab at the University of Lethbridge, has always been curious about how things work. His quest to build a spectrometer that can operate at cryogenic temperatures has earned him an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).