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5 Questions with Dr. Claudia Malacrida

5 Questions with Dr. Claudia Malacrida

Claudia Malacrida is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, specializing in sociology of the body, gender, and disability studies. Her research is focused on two primary areas: disability and sexuality; and childbirth and choice. In each, she is concerned about how seemingly personal and embodied experiences are

5 Questions with Dr. Paul Vasey

5 Questions with Dr. Paul Vasey

Dr. Paul Vasey is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge. He conducts cross-species and cross-cultural research to answer the question: If reproduction is the engine that drives evolution, why engage in non-conceptive sex? For the past decade he has done research on the development

5 Questions with Dr. Elizabeth Galway

5 Questions with Dr. Elizabeth Galway

Dr. Elizabeth Galway has been a faculty member in the Department of English since 2003 where she teaches courses in Canadian literature, children's literature and nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity (Routledge

5 Questions with Dr. Shelley Scott

5 Questions with Dr. Shelley Scott

Shelley Scott (BA '86) is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dramatic Arts. She served as the department Chair from 2008-2011 and was the president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) from 2008-2012. Shelley teaches courses in theatre history, Canadian theatre, theatre theory and

5 Questions with Dr. Blythe Shepard

5 Questions with Dr. Blythe Shepard

Blythe Shepard joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge in July 2008. She received her doctorate in educational psychology with a specialty in counselling psychology from the University of Victoria in 2002 where she was a faculty member (2002-2008) and graduate advisor (2005-2008) in the Department of

5 Questions with Dr. Ute Wieden-Kothe

5 Questions with Dr. Ute Wieden-Kothe

Dr. Ute Wieden-Kothe joined theDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Lethbridge in 2006 after completing her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. Her research focuses on RNA (ribonucleic acid), an important molecule in life that resembles our genetic information, DNA. Wieden-Kothe is particularly

5 Questions with Dr. Olu Awosoga

5 Questions with Dr. Olu Awosoga

Dr. Olu Awosoga completed his dissertation on Meta-Analysis of Multiple Baseline Time-Series Design Intervention Models for Dependent and Independent Series. This study developed a traditional meta-type analysis and corresponding robust methodology for multiple baseline series. This is a statistical approach used in applied statistical research to investigate the validity of

5 Questions with Dr. Sergio Pellis

5 Questions with Dr. Sergio Pellis

Dr. Sergio M. Pellis has been a professor at the University of Lethbridge since 1990 with the main focus of his research being on the role peer-to-peer play has in the development of social competence. Using various species, ranging from laboratory rodents to primates, such as the great apes, Pellis

5 Questions With Dr. Martin Lalumiere

5 Questions With Dr. Martin Lalumiere

Dr. Martin Lalumiere is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. He studies the etiology of sexual aggression, the development of atypical sexual preferences, the physiological assessment of sexual arousal, sex differences in genital arousal, the effect of birth order on development and the determinants of risk taking. Prior

5 Questions with Dr. Arlan Schultz

5 Questions with Dr. Arlan Schultz

Dr. Arlan Schultz is an assistant professor of music, composition and theory and the head of the composition area within the Department of Music in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Schultz's music has been broadcast on Radio Canada, in France on CBC's sister network, and has

5 Questions with Dr. Claudia Gonzalez

5 Questions with Dr. Claudia Gonzalez

Dr. Claudia Gonzalez (MSc '00, PhD '04) is a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Born and raised in Mexico, she earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico before continuing her education at the University

5 Questions With Dr. Henning Bjornlund

5 Questions With Dr. Henning Bjornlund

Dr. Henning Bjornlund is a Canada Research Chair in Water Policy and Management at the University of Lethbridge and a professor at the University of South Australia. He has researched water policy and management issues in Australia since 1993 and in Canada since 2005. He recently served on the Ministers

5 questions with . . . Dr. Roy Golsteyn

5 questions with . . . Dr. Roy Golsteyn

Roy Golsteyn is an associate professor of biology and an Alberta Ingenuity faculty member at the University of Lethbridge. He directs the Cancer Cell Laboratory where his team studies the problem of how cancer cells escape a cancer treatment. The majority of cancer patients in Canada will receive some form

5 Questions with . . .Dr. Nicole Rosen

5 Questions with . . .Dr. Nicole Rosen

Dr. Nicole Rosen teaches languages and linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages. Her research interests include phonetics and phonology, Michif language, Western Algonquian languages, language revitalization, English and French in the Canadian Prairies and lexicography of endangered languages. What first piqued your interest in your research discipline? After high

5 questions with . . . Dr. Andrew Iwaniuk

5 questions with . . . Dr. Andrew Iwaniuk

Dr. Andrew Iwaniuk is an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience. He is interested in understanding the neural and behavioural effects of chemical exposure by using multiple methods in both the laboratory and in the field. This research includes: gaining a better understanding of the role of the brain

5 questions with . . . Dr. Carol Williams

5 questions with . . . Dr. Carol Williams

Dr. Carol Williams joined the Women's Studies [http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/women-gender-studies] Program and the Department of History [http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/history] at the University of Lethbridge in 2003. Today, we ask her 5 Questions about her research career. Williams is currently completing a transnational

5 questions with . . . Dr. Bonnie Lee

5 questions with . . . Dr. Bonnie Lee

Dr. Bonnie Lee is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences [http://www.uleth.ca/hlsc] (Addictions Counselling). She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa [http://www.uottawa.ca/] and is a registered marriage and family therapist and a clinical member and approved supervisor with

5 questions with . . . Dr. Aaron Gruber

5 questions with . . . Dr. Aaron Gruber

Dr. Aaron Gruber received his PhD in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, writing his dissertation on computational models of working memory and its modulation by dopamine. He joined the faculty at the University of Lethbridge in 2009. Gruber's laboratory [http://lethbridgebraindynamics.com/aaron_gruber] investigates