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Indigenous students at the University of Lethbridge will have the opportunity to connect with Indigenous and non-Indigenous professionals across a range of career paths thanks to a new partnership between ULethbridge and the Influence Mentoring Society.

Alberta’s Eastern Slopes are changing, and with land use practices under increasing pressure, it’s imperative policy makers fully understand the relationship between snowpack and downstream river runoff in managing our water resources. Image

Thanks to a Mitacs Accelerate grant worth $150,000, Allos Bioscience is set to work on developing better biosensors to detect specific carbohydrates in solutions.

Southern Alberta high-school and mature students looking to pursue a career in finance will have one more educational option available to them thanks to a new, two-year, 20-course finance diploma being

University of Lethbridge student Lionel Migrino has won a national work-integrated learning award after his efforts through a co-operative education work placement led to tangible change at a major Alberta employer.

ULFA refusing invitations to meet to discuss reasonable salary demands The University of Lethbridge is increasingly concerned about the impacts of the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA) strike on students and the union’s refusal to meet at the negotiating table to discuss our fiscal circumstances. Since 2019/20, our provincial grant has been cut by more than 20%. We have lost $21M in annual provincial funding.

Virtual film screening of Black Lives in Alberta: Over a Century of Racial Injustice Continues available on Wednesday, February 23 Anyone wanting to learn more about what it’s like to be Black in Alberta is invited to attend the virtual screening of a collaborative film project sponsored by the Lethbridge Diversity & Inclusion Alliance, the United Way of Lethbridge and South Western Alberta and the Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT) at the University of Lethbridge.

The University of Lethbridge’s Bridge Prize, Canada’s largest literary prize for post-secondary students, has once again received an overwhelming number of entries. When the deadline for entries closed at midnight on Jan. 24, 186 manuscripts from 49 post-secondary institutions across nine provinces had been received.

Dr. Athan Zovoilis, Canada Research Chair in RNA Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of Lethbridge, will continue his groundbreaking research into the molecular mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s disease thanks to a grant of $918,000 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Scientists have long understood the majority of primate births, including humans, occur during the inactive phase, or at night.