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With technological advances running at an incredible pace, and the current political and social climate in a perpetual state of flux, artists, innovators, scholars and activists alike continue researching and working on ways to address the questions and...

Article - /unews/article/crossing-boundaries-symposium-returns-discuss-art-technology-and-identity - October 17, 2017

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When the October crisis erupted in Canada in October 1970, tensions mounted at the Meliorist office at the University of Lethbridge. Following the kidnapping of provincial cabinet minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross by the Front de...

Article - /unews/article/meliorist-editor-nearly-arrested-treason-during-1970-october-crisis - October 17, 2017

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For the first time, evidence of the zebra chip pathogen has been found in potato fields in southern Alberta, but the University of Lethbridge’s Dr. Dan Johnson cautions against panic.“So far, the zebra chip pathogen has appeared in only small numbers of...

Article - /unews/article/zebra-chip-pathogen-found-western-canada-first-time - October 18, 2017

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The University of Lethbridge continues to make students its top priority and is continually expanding its national research imprint, as reflected in the annual Maclean’s University Rankings report.The U of L maintained its top-five ranking in the...

Article - /unews/article/student-support-heart-university-lethbridge%E2%80%99s-consistent-top-five-spot-maclean%E2%80%99s-university - October 19, 2017

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Dr. Dawn McBride, a psychologist and professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, has received a Tulip Award from the Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter for her work to end family violence and abuse.The awards are distributed...

Article - /unews/article/work-end-family-violence-earns-mcbride-tulip-award - October 19, 2017

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What happens when 22 university students, eight with identified disabilities, join up for a year-long inclusive dance journey? Find out at the premier showing of Becoming Unlimited, Saturday, Oct. 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Movie Mill.In the 2014-2015...

Article - /unews/article/becoming-unlimited-celebrates-inclusivity-through-dance - October 20, 2017

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Scholars rarely stumble onto a research focus without some sort of personal interest or connection and for Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske, her latest research project delves into issues that shaped her childhood and continue to resonate today.Fiske (Women & Gender...

Article - /unews/article/public-professor-talk-very-personal-story-fiske - October 23, 2017

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Fifty years ago, Dr. Russell Leskiw (LLD ’93) became the University of Lethbridge’s first acting president, guiding the institution from its birth on Jan. 1, 1967 through its first six months.In honour of his legacy, the U of L recently established the...

Article - /unews/article/scholarship-honours-u-l%E2%80%99s-first-acting-president - October 24, 2017

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The University of Lethbridge is pleased to announce the approval of four members to its Board of Governors, including three new public members and one reappointment.“We’re very excited to reappoint Jennifer Harker to the Board and to welcome three new...

Article - /unews/article/board-governors-reappoints-one-welcomes-three-new-members - October 25, 2017

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Dr. Mike Mahon, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Lethbridge, was elected Chair of Universities Canada's board of directors today during the association’s fall membership meeting in Ottawa.“Mike Mahon is an outstanding academic leader...

Article - /unews/article/u-l-president-dr-mike-mahon-named-chair-universities-canadas-board-directors - October 25, 2017

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The University of Lethbridge continues to trend up in the ranking of the country’s top research universities, according to the latest Research InfoSource annual Research Universities of the Year rankings list.The U of L jumped to second in the country...

Article - /unews/article/university-lethbridge-jumps-second-research-infosource-rankings-leads-graduate-student - October 26, 2017

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Growing up in Puerto Rico, Francisco Gomez Jimenez, a University of Lethbridge doctoral student, knew the island as a tropical paradise. But the view through the plane window as his flight descended into the airport at San Juan on Sept. 30 was shocking....

Article - /unews/article/u-l-community-organizes-fundraiser-help-people-puerto-rico - October 31, 2017

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Three years in the making, the University of Lethbridge Department of Drama is proud to present the world premiere of When There’s Nothing Left to Burn, the winning play commissioned through the Fiction at Fifty playwright competition.Inspired by the...

Article - /unews/article/fiction-fifty-competition-brings-new-canadian-content-u-l-stage - November 1, 2017

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The University of Lethbridge’s 50th Anniversary Scotch gives aficionados the chance to get their hands on a unique 25-year-old scotch and help support U of L student scholarships at the same time.Building on the U of L Alumni Association’s private...

Article - /unews/article/u-l-unveils-commemorative-scotch-whisky-celebration-its-50th-anniversary - November 2, 2017

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The University of Lethbridge will join over 100 countries around the globe in celebrating International Education Week (IEW) Nov. 6-10, 2017 with a host of performances, demonstrations, lectures, films and assorted activities.As part of IEW, the...

Article - /unews/article/university-excited-celebrate-international-education-week-and-global-perspective - November 6, 2017

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University of Lethbridge students will have the opportunity to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime experience thanks to the generosity of the Brawn Family Foundation and the Semester at Sea program.Each year, the Brawn Family Foundation will provide a...

Article - /unews/article/brawn-family-foundation-gift-sponsor-u-l-student-semester-sea-program - November 6, 2017

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Inspired by the landscape of southern Alberta and the coal mining history of Lethbridge, Amsterdam artist Karin Van Dam opens her first Canadian solo exhibition at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Thursday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m.To Dwell in Pitch...

Article - /unews/article/dwell-pitch-black-pearls-shifts-perspective-lethbridge-landscape - November 7, 2017

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For the vast majority of Canadians, the concept of not having readily available drinking water is literally foreign – something only developing countries have to face. Unfortunately, residents of rural and remote communities, many of which are...

Article - /unews/article/hanrahan-earns-parkland-grant-study-water-security-metis-communities - November 9, 2017

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It’s as much a part of Christmas in Lethbridge as sipping eggnog by the fire or Santa filling the stockings. If you’re going to partake in some holiday cheer, having Operation Red Nose (ORN) at your disposal is a true southern Alberta holiday tradition...

Article - /unews/article/operation-red-nose-honours-slavin-launch-23rd-campaign - November 14, 2017

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Dr. Maria Klawe, who received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Lethbridge earlier this year, was inspired to put brush to paper after she met Dr. Leroy Little Bear (BASc (BA) '72, DASc '04) at this spring’s convocation...

Article - /unews/article/painting-pays-tribute-dr-leroy-little-bear - November 14, 2017

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Today, Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s Minister of Science, announced the recipients of several Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants and seven University of Lethbridge researchers are among those who secured funding for their projects....

Article - /unews/article/u-l-researchers-awarded-more-907000-research-funding - November 15, 2017

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The Global Citizenship Cohort (GCC), now in its third year, has been providing first-year students with an enhanced first-year educational experience.Students are given the unique opportunity to connect some of their first-year courses around a common...

Article - /unews/article/cultivating-connections-through-global-citizenship-cohort - November 15, 2017

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The University of Lethbridge Women Scholars’ Speakers Series takes the ten hundred word challenge in the upcoming panel discussion How We Came to Study The Things We Do.Inspired by a panel held at the American Association for Physical Anthropology...

Article - /unews/article/women-scholars%E2%80%99-speakers-series-simplifies-research-only-1000-words - November 17, 2017

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In its annual tradition, the University of Lethbridge Bookstore staff put their creative minds to work to decorate the Tree of Knowledge for the 2017 Christmas Tree Festival. The long-running festival, where local businesses, individuals and community...

Article - /unews/article/secret-garden-provides-year%E2%80%99s-theme-u-l-bookstore%E2%80%99s-tree-knowledge - November 23, 2017

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Dr. René Barendregt (BSc ’71) will tell you he hasn’t gone all that far in his life, but it’s relative to how “far” is defined.“I tell my friends and students, I was born right over there in the Galt Hospital, or museum,” he says, pointing from his o...

Article - /unews/article/barendregt-follows-science-when-studying-climate-change - November 27, 2017

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