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Dr. David Hobbs
What Do We Do
Dr. David Logue
The Science of Birdsong
Dr. Chris Burton
Identity and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Dr. Habiba Kadiri
Resilience in Mathematics
Dr. Saurya Das
Our Universe: its beginning, flow and end
Apooyak'ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete
The Kainai Stolen Children Era
Dr. Laura Chasmer
Living with the changing flammability of forests
Dr. Alain Takam
Translating in a context of official bilingualism: What happens to the minority language?
Dr. Leroy Little Bear
The Comeback: The Parallel Experiences of the Blackfoot and the Buffalo
Dr. Katharina Stevens
Arguing Without Being Cruel: What Morality Has to Say About How We Should Give Reasons
Dr. Trushar Patel
How not to get viral: Understanding the communication between viruses and humans
Dr. James MacKenzie
Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place
Dr. Trevor Harrison
The Promise and Peril of Populism
Dr. Elizabeth Galway
What’s So Childish about Children’s Stories? Exploring the Complex World of Literature for Young Readers.
Dr. Gail Michener
Love Them, Despise Them, Study Them: Perspectives on an iconic prairie animal.
CBC News interview with Dr. Michener
Dr. Glenda Bonifacio
Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?
Dr. Hillary Rodrigues
COMBATTING DELUSION: Gleanings from the Hindu Great Goddess and Eastern Sages
Dr. Carly Adams
"Hey, why don't we have a bonspiel?" Oral Histories, Sport, and (re)Imagining Community
Dr. Jackie Rice
The Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Matthew Tata
How to Talk to Your Robot: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Make Robots That Can Hear
Dr. Louise Barrett
Supercharged Apes and Supersized Minds: How to Think Like an Animal
Dr. Hester Jiskoot
Glaciers — A Hot Topic
Dr. Tom Johnston
The Geography of Circumstance
Dr. Alexander Darku
The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics
PUBlic Professor Series talk explores the building blocks of African development
Dr. Amy Shaw
'A Devil-May-Care Sort of Swagger’: A Case for Remembering Canada in the Boer War.
PUBlic Professor Series talk explores why Canadians remember some wars and let others fade
Dr. Maura Hanrahan
Creating Heroes and Claiming the North: Captain Robert Abram Bartlett in the Arctic
Dr. Sergio Pellis
A Journey Through the Fields of Play
Examination of why play is so important for children
Dr. Catherine Kingfisher
Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism
Kingfisher explores models of happiness
Dr. Tom Robinson
Sex, Drugs, Jesus, and Gin
Robinson finds rich story in research quest
Dr. Paul Vasey
Beyond the Binary: What the West Can Learn from Non-Western Approaches to Gender Diversity
Vasey eager to engage healthy discussion on sexual and gender diversity
Dr. René Barendregt
Global Climate Archives in Mud and Rock: The magnetic recorder is always on [somewhere]!
Barendregt follows the science when studying climate change
Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske
Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers. Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture
PUBlic Professor talk a very personal story for Fiske
Dr. Ute Kothe
From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters
Video: We had some technical difficulties with the video recording of this talk, however, we have been able to recover the majority of content for your review.
Kothe eager to bring science to the community
Dr. Stacey Wetmore
DNA Damage, Repair and Disease: How Computers Can Help Us Understand
Wetmore harnesses power of computers to tackle some of society's biggest problems
Dr. Kent Peacock
Alberta in the Anthropocene
Peacock presenting a big picture view of Alberta's future
Dr. Janay Nugent
Converting a Nation: family, religion, and Calvinism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scotland
Nugent honing critical thinkers through history
Dr. Goldie Morgentaler
How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters
Morgentaler revels in the beauty of literature
Dr. Roy Golsteyn
Flower Power: A scientific search for new medicines in Prairie Plants
Prairie view opens new research frontier for Golsteyn
Dr. Kevin McGeough
'I met a traveller from an antique land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse.
Dr. Reg Bibby
Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada
Bibby asks the questions that are on everyone's mind
Dr. Shawn Bubel
Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at Fincastle Site
Thrill of the find keeps Bubel digging
Dr. Harold Jansen
The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada
Jansen's devotion to political world, student engagement indicative of department
Dr. Jennifer Copeland
Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour
Copeland always on the move - for good reason
Dr. Craig Coburn
Understanding the Complexities of Imaging the Earth: The Challenge of Image Calibration
Coburn comfortable stepping into the unknown
Dr. Olga Kovalchuk
Epigenetics of Health and Disease: From Personalized Science to Personalized Medicine
Kovalchuk research points to a future of personalized medical treatments
Dr. Michelle Hogue
Two-Eyed Seeing: A Different Vision for Teaching Aboriginal Learners Science and Mathematics
Hogue bridges Aboriginal and Western science education
Dr. John Harding
Buddha’s World Tour: Global Buddhism in the Modern Era
Dr. David Naylor
Why Invest in Space Exploration?
Making the case for space exploration
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Dr. Ian MacLachlan
Changing Livestock Geographies and Global Meat Consumption: What are the Implications?
Understanding the consequences of the global ‘livestock revolution
Dr. Patrick Wilson
Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador
The plight of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples