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Join the University of Lethbridge’s Management Students' Society for a polar plunge that helps make local issues like social isolation and education inequality #UNIGNORABLE! WHAT: Chillin’ 4 Charity polar plunge fundraiser to benefit the United Way, Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Community Fund WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 WHERE: University of Lethbridge bus loop

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. Art NOW — Dr. Ian MacLachlan Wednesday, Oct. 2, noon to 12:50 p.m. Recital Hall, W570

The Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT) at the University of Lethbridge is taking its oral history workshops farther afield thanks to the efforts of alumnus Dale Leffingwell (BASC ’71). As president of the Milk River Historical Society, Leffingwell partnered with the U of L to bring an oral history workshop to the community on Saturday, Oct. 5. The workshop will focus on the basics of doing an oral history project, including interviewing and transcription.

Media are invited to attend on Monday, Sept. 30 between 9 and 10:30 a.m. in the Students’ Union Ballroom University of Lethbridge education students will be participating in Orange Shirt Day on Monday, Sept. 30 as part of a three-day conference designed to build foundational knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. Orange Shirt Day was created to educate people about the residential school system and the impact it had on Indigenous communities.

For her incredible and consistent commitment to University of Lethbridge public health students, the Faculty of Health Sciences is pleased to recognize Dr. Vivien Suttorp with this year’s Friends of Health Sciences award.

Seeing ourselves in other animals is a very human thing to do. On the one hand, this is entirely appropriate — we are animals ourselves after all. On the other hand, it can give rise to a misleading view of other species if we insist on comparing them to humans, especially as we often consider ourselves to be above the other animals: our large relative brain size, and spectacular ability to invent and use technology, seems to place us at a remove from the rest of the Animal Kingdom.

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.

Given the chance to contribute to Reconciliation Week efforts and the City, three University of Lethbridge new media students, working through the University’s Agility Program, ran with the opportunity. Image

Moon of the Crusted Snow author, Waubgeshig Rice, to read at Word on the Street Image

A new University of Lethbridge research project that proposes to chronicle the history of Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs) in the province of Alberta has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Parkland Institute Faculty Research Award. Image