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U of L plays host to Canada West Women's Rugby Championships

U of L plays host to Canada West Women's Rugby Championships

Coming off a dominant and undefeated Canada West regular season, the University of Alberta Pandas head into this weekend's Canada West Women's Rugby Championships as the top seed and the team to beat. Joining the Pandas in Lethbridge are the University of Calgary Dinos, host University

Art in city hall features whimsical artist

Fine Arts alumna Brenna Miller is the latest artist to take part in Airdrie’s Art In City Hall program. Three of Miller’s fanciful pencil-crayon pieces are now on display until the end of November Airdrie Echo [http://www.airdrieecho.com/2013/10/15/art-in-city-hall-features-whimsical-artist]

Ag fieldman conference planned for Nanton

University of Lethbridge Associate Professor, Carol Williams, will be speaking on rural and urban reciprocity: ranching life, land use and labour on the southern Alberta foothills, Oct. 24 Nanton News [http://www.nantonnews.com/2013/10/14/ag-fieldman-conference-planned-for-nanton]

Management students pay it forward with Kazakoff Scholarship

Management students pay it forward with Kazakoff Scholarship

The University of Lethbridge community has a proud tradition of providing financial support for students in the pursuit of their educational goals. And, once in a while, these students take an opportunity to pay it forward to others who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence. One such opportunity was taken

Vermilion harvest nearing completion

University of Lethbridge alumna Colette Thurston, an agronomist with Webb's Crop Services, discusses the fall harvest Vermilion Voice [http://issuu.com/vermilionvoice/docs/482]

Faculty Artists & Friends Series a real treat

With concerts that range from a spellbinding performance of Russian post-Romantic music to an internationally renowned violist and contemporary chamber music performed by Montreal’s In Extensio, the Faculty Artists and Friends Series provides one of the most diverse music series in the city. “We are featuring a nice mix

Mahon says in Fiat Lux Address that budget landscape will not compromise University's future

Mahon says in Fiat Lux Address that budget landscape will not compromise University's future

In the third annual Fiat Lux address, President Mike Mahon reiterated the University of Lethbridge’s response to its Campus Alberta operating grant cut, shared details about the institution’s draft Strategic Plan and spoke to the initiatives that will continue to move the U of L forward. Mahon said

University and Volunteer Lethbridge enhance partnership

University and Volunteer Lethbridge enhance partnership

The University of Lethbridge and Volunteer Lethbridge are creating greater opportunities for student community service and volunteerism activities by entering into a partnership that will see Volunteer Lethbridge relocate its offices to the University’s Dr. Foster James Penny Building in mid-November. “This partnership will prove to be of tremendous

Morgentaler earns SSHRC grant to study life of Rosenfarb

Morgentaler earns SSHRC grant to study life of Rosenfarb

Dr. Goldie Morgentaler (English) has received a $21,230 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant to further her work on the life and writings of Dr. Chava Rosenfarb, a world-renowned Yiddish author, poet and Holocaust survivor who happens also to be Morgentaler’s mother. Rosenfarb’s work

Grant allows Harding opportunity to study Buddhism in Canada

Dr. John Harding (Religious Studies, Principal Investigator) has received a five-year, $258,659 Social sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant – the largest-ever grant received by the Department of Religious Studies – to study Buddhism in Canada and around the world. With colleagues Dr. Victor Hori (McGill University) and Dr.

Malacrida examining disability, sexuality and parenting in Alberta

Malacrida examining disability, sexuality and parenting in Alberta

Dr. Claudia Malacrida (Sociology) has received $318,278 over five years to study the topic of disability, sexuality and parenting in Alberta. Between 1928 and 1972, approximately 2,800 people – most of them institutionalized women – were involuntarily sterilized under the mistaken belief that problems like poverty and disability could be

Insight Grant funding illustrates breadth of University's humanities research

Five social science and humanities researchers at the University of Lethbridge have received grants from the Federal government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight or Insight Development Grant program with a total value of almost $675,000 ($674,152). Dr. Dan Weeks, the U of L’s

Searing drama examines indifference to HIV crisis in early 1980s

Searing drama examines indifference to HIV crisis in early 1980s

How far does someone need to be pushed to make a change? The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer takes on this challenging topic, and many others. A searing drama around the public and private indifference to the AIDS epidemic in New York City in the early 1980s and one man’

Gairdner speaker event brings Dr. Samuel Weiss to campus

Gairdner speaker event brings Dr. Samuel Weiss to campus

University of Lethbridge faculty and students, along with select southern Alberta high school students, will have the unique opportunity to experience a lecture by Gairdner International Award winner Dr. Samuel Weiss, Monday, Oct. 21. The Gairdner Foundation Speaker Event will include a lecture for the area’s elite high school

Student Success

iGEM team celebrates North American Regional victory

The University of Lethbridge has further cemented its reputation as a leader in the teaching and research of synthetic biology by capturing first place at the 2013 North American iGEM Regional Jamboree in Toronto, Ont. this past weekend. The competition, held at the University of Toronto, featured teams from across

Habits of Community

U of L historian Dr. Heidi MacDonald considers the demographics of congregations of women religious during the past 160 years and traces their precipitous decline to a disturbing loss of community in society at large Cardus [http://www.cardus.ca/convivium/article/4059/]

How Being a Gay Boy is Like Having a Physiological Problem with Milk

Examining Dr. Paul Vasey's study of the Samoan fa'afafine and how they relate to feminine boys in North America, and their increased rates of wanting to stick close to their family Pacific Standard [http://www.psmag.com/health/gay-boy-like-physiological-problem-milk-67424/]

University of Lethbridge team wins top prize in synthetic biology competition

The U of L's iGEM team wins the the North American Regional, setting it up well for the international competition at MIT in November Globe and Mail [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/university-of-lethbridge-team-wins-top-prize-in-synthetic-biology-contest/article14718537/]

Busy weekend upcoming for Horns Athletics

Busy weekend upcoming for Horns Athletics

The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns women’s hockey team took a small step back last season, missing the Canada West playoff party. On Friday night, the Horns will begin their quest to return to the post-season when they open the regular season against the defending Canada West champion UBC Thunderbirds

Horns hosting defending Canada West champs to open season

Horns hosting defending Canada West champs to open season

Following the best season in school history in 2011-12, the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns women’s hockey team took a step back last season and missed the playoffs. With a veteran laden roster set to return this season, the team looks to move back into the playoff picture. A total

Mother's strength inspires legacy

Mother's strength inspires legacy

Perhaps one of the most defining moments of the late Dorothy Lundstad’s life was one she was barely old enough to remember. When Dorothy was only seven years old, her father died. This tragic event changed the trajectory of Dorothy’s life, and today is reflected in an award

Master's candidate Pryor looking at the bigger picture

Master's candidate Pryor looking at the bigger picture

In imaging science, it’s all about seeing the big picture and the fine details. As part of the Advanced Methods, Education and Training in Hyperspectral Science and Technology (AMETHYST) program, graduate student Logan Pryor (BSc ’09) is one of 14 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students doing just that.

All the right moves

All the right moves

Would the world be a better place if more people played chess? The philosopher in Dr. Lance Grigg loves that question, but the educator in him loves it even more. Grigg is an education professor at the University of Lethbridge who came to the profession by way of an undergraduate

For Marta Blicharz, photographs are anything but black and white

Student Success

For Marta Blicharz, photographs are anything but black and white

It was in the recommendation of her college instructor that Marta Blicharz (MFA '12) started thinking about graduate studies at the University of Lethbridge. "The Master of Fine Arts in New Media was just being developed as I was finishing a multimedia production diploma at Lethbridge College,"

The old way to be gay

Psychology professor Dr. Paul Vasey's research looks at how androphilic males persist in various cultures when logic dictates that 'gay genes' would not survive evolution Pacific Standard [http://www.psmag.com/health/the-old-way-to-be-gay-couples-love-evolution-67337/]