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Selling public service messages

Like any type of marketing, social marketing (including work safety appeals and cause-related marketing) takes savvy and an intimate knowledge of one's audience. Drs. Debra and Mike Basil, a husband-and-wife duo in the Faculty of Management at the U of L, are trying to understand what makes workplace

Shining a light on logic

Just as a scientist places a sample beneath a microscope lens to understand its subtlest parts, philosophers minutely examine an argument to determine how its components work together. Logics that can cope with inconsistent premises are the focus of Dr. Bryson Brown's most recent work. The University of

The future of Canadian history

The future of Canadian history

Are we becoming a historically illiterate nation or are we already there? What teaching strategies would pique the interest of today's techno-generation? These are a few of the types of questions U of L education professor Dr. Amy von Heyking and her colleagues from The History Education Network/

Rethinking stereotypes

On a map, the small town of Brooks, Alta., appears no different than any other rural location. But with only 13,000 people speaking approximately 90 different languages, Brooks has an uncharacteristically diverse population for a prairie town. When U of L new media researcher Dana Inkster decided to direct

Rethinking the environment

Dr. Christopher Hugenholtz and his research team are discovering that wind erosion is essential to preserving a balanced ecosystem. Thoughts of wind erosion bring to mind vivid imagery of the 1930s dust bowl – wind ripping away valuable topsoil as it blackens prairie skies and paints a picture of agricultural devastation.

Rethinking stress

Stress. There's a good chance you are experiencing it in your life right now or know someone who is. It's a buzzword that's become so pervasive in our culture that we hardly give it a second thought. However, U of L management professor Dr.

Construction on Campus

The University continued to expand in 2007/2008 with four major projects highlighting campus activities. Ground was broken Feb. 15, 2007, on the $65-million Markin Hall project, a four-level complex that will house the School of Health Sciences and Faculty of Management. It is expected to open during the summer

Bringing social responsibility to business interests

Bringing social responsibility to business interests

Dr. Debra Basil [http://zapp.uleth.ca/Applications/CampusDirec/users/debra.basil], associate professor of marketing [http://www.uleth.ca/ross/acadprog/undergrad/mgt/mkt/index.html] at the University of Lethbridge, is comfortably settling into her newest role: director of the Centre for Socially Responsible Marketing [http://www.uleth.

U of L Physics and Astronomy Research Explores Deep Space

U of L Physics and Astronomy Research Explores Deep Space

SPIRE Takes Detailed Look at Giant Star New images and data from an instrument attached to the groundbreaking Herschel Space Observatory, [http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/herschel/default.asp] and co-designed by a University of Lethbridge team, are showing off even more detail about the origins of the

Lasting Images - Carl Granzow

Carl Granzow came from Arizona State University to the University of Lethbridge in 1975 as a lecturer in sculpture and design, and in 1979 he accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Art where he maintained a balanced interest in teaching, research/creative activity and administrative service. Over

Interest in literature sparks library career

It's not exactly the Hotel California, but for a number of students who check in to work at the University of Lethbridge Library, they never leave — that is, the profession. Two such examples are Danielle Sali, a current student worker applying for her master's of library