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Painting Places Painting: Dagmar Dahle and Chris Kline

Works by Dagmar Dahle, a U of L Department of Fine Arts Faculty member, are featured in Border Crossings cultural magazine. Border Crossings [http://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/painting-places-painting-dagmar-dahle-and-chris-kline]

Woollen Skeletons And Other Macabre Creations From Lethbridge’s Shanell Papp

Shanell Papp, who teaches at the U of L, was featured as Canadian artist of the week on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight [http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/look-at-this-shanell-papp#.VADwWF4Ppec.email]

Campus Roots Community Garden doubles its size

Campus Roots Community Garden doubles its size

This year’s growing season has been a bountiful one for the Campus Roots Community Garden (CRCG) at the University of Lethbridge. Not only have the vegetables thrived, a dedicated group of volunteers took to their spades to expand the size of the garden. With the wait list for garden

Breakfast Television news - Carmen Mombourquette

U of L education professor Carmen Mombourquette provides expert tips on how parents can help their children ease their way back to school. City TV Calgary Breakfast Television [http://www.btcalgary.ca/videos/3763398692001/]

Three added to Palliser Regional Schools Wall of Fame

U of L alum Norman Wirzba, now a professor of theology and ecology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, honoured for outstanding achievement in philosophy and theology on Palliser's Wall of Fame. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/29/three-added-to-palliser-regional-schools-wall-of-fame/]

New students welcomed

Students packed the U of L gym for New Student Orientation and the first ever commencement Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/09/02/new-students-welcomed/]

Startup of the Week – TaDuler

U of L Management alum Mark McKee took his experience working for a painting company during his university studies and used to help establish TaDuler, an online marketplace to connect consumers with reputable service providers Calgary Herald (blog) [http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2014/09/01/startup-of-the-week-taduler/]

"Horns recruits add character

U of L Pronghorns men's basketball team rounds out its roster for the upcoming season. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/sports/pronghorns/2014/08/29/horns-recruits-add-character/]

Wired for learning

U of L Faculty of Education professor Marlo Steed talks about way technological devices are being used in the classroom. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/29/wired-for-learning/]

U of L research labs have international flavour

Two university students from Germany have been honing their research skills at U of L labs this summer Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/28/u-of-l-research-labs-have-international-flavour/]

Achievements of women in physics celebrated at international conference

Achievements of women in physics celebrated at international conference

Women are still a minority in the field of physics but every few years they come together from all parts of the world to celebrate their achievements, exchange ideas and discuss ways to address the gender gap. Drs. Adriana Predoi-Cross and Arundhati Dasgupta, both professors in the Department of Physics

Sharing the prairie landscape with rattlesnakes

Sharing the prairie landscape with rattlesnakes

The University of Lethbridge is built into the coulee slopes along the Oldman River, an area that’s also habitat for the prairie rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes are periodically seen on campus during the spring, summer and fall months as they travel in search of food. The rattlesnakes will soon start migrating

University of Lethbridge ready to welcome students

University of Lethbridge ready to welcome students

The buzz around campus signals the fall semester isn’t far away. U of L crews have been polishing, painting and planning in anticipation of the first day of classes on Wednesday, Sept. 3. Monday and Tuesday will see a flurry of activity on campus as incoming students attend New

Performance art without the artist

U of L student Cindy Baker is curator of 'The MIssing Body' exhibit showing in Lethbridge at SAAG, Casa and the U of L's Penny Building until Sept. 5. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/28/performance-art-without-the-artist/]

Gallery builds tribute to forward-looking painter John Clark

Some of the works of John Clark, who came to the U of L as a visiting artist and was then hired as an associate professor in 1986, are on exhibit until Aug. 31 at Calgary's C2 Gallery at City Hall. calgaryherald.com [http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/

The art form of words

Bonnie Patton, a U of L alum, currently has an exhibit called Marks of Meaning - Visual Poetry featured in the Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove's gallery. Stony Plain Reporter [http://www.stonyplainreporter.com/2014/08/22/the-art-form-of-words]

German exchange students learn research skills at the University of Lethbridge

German exchange students learn research skills at the University of Lethbridge

For the past few years, university students from Germany have been able to hone their research skills in labs at the University of Lethbridge. Through the German Academic Exchange Service, Dr. Hans-Joachim Wieden and Dr. Ute Kothe, professors in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, have had German university students

U of L students exemplify the spirit of World Humanitarian Day

U of L students exemplify the spirit of World Humanitarian Day

University of Lethbridge students who have participated in humanitarian work say helping others has enriched their lives in ways they couldn’t have ever imagined. Whether they worked with youth to help them learn ways of preventing malaria and HIV or nursed critically ill patients, humanitarian work has expanded their

High school students help with U of L research

Local high school students participating in the Heritage Youth Researcher Summer program at the U of L talk about the research they worked on for the past six weeks. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/17/high-school-students-help-with-u-of-l-research/]

High school students get a jump on research at the U of L

High school students get a jump on research at the U of L

Six local high school students have been learning their way around University of Lethbridge research labs this summer through the Heritage Youth Researcher Summer (HYRS) program. The HYRS program gives high school students who are entering Grade 12 an intensive six-week experience conducting scientific research in a university lab. Along

Mothers DO pass on pregnancy stress - and genetic changes it causes can be passed down for several years

A University of Lethbridge research team found that stress in one generation of pregnant rats can be passed on to their babies and even affect pregnancies in future generations Daily Mail [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2718527/Mothers-pass-pregnancy-stress-genetic-changes-affect-pregnancies-generations-come-claims-study.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490]

Accessibility for disabled improving in city parks

U of L student Justin Turner assessed inclusive mobility in city parks for his honours thesis. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/06/accessibility-for-disabled-improving-in-city-parks/]

University of Lethbridge researchers show that stress during pregnancy has generational effects

University of Lethbridge researchers show that stress during pregnancy has generational effects

A new research study showing that stress in pregnant rats can shorten the length of pregnancy in subsequent generations could provide clues to the causes of preterm birth in humans. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Lethbridge, along with a University of Alberta medical researcher, studied successive

Author pens 'A Battalion of Our Own'

Brett Clifton, a U of L alumnus, used a research award to dig into and chronicle the history of the Lethbridge Highlanders. Lethbridge Herald [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2014/08/05/author-pens-a-battalion-of-our-own/]

A Yiddish literature expert in western Canada

Dr. Goldie Morgentaler talks about her life in Lethbridge and her work as a teacher of Victorian and Yiddish literature at the U of L. San Diego Jewish World [http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2014/08/03/yiddish-literature-expert-western-canada/]