A three-year study by Dr. Robin Bright (BASc ‘79, BEd ‘82, MEd ‘88), a University of Lethbridge education professor, shows middle school students who sometimes struggle with reading can become engaged and motivated readers with the right resource materials and a focused approach. Typically, literacy is a focus of elementary

A majority of surveyed registered nurses, practical nurses and health-care aides working in 30 continuing care facilities in southern Alberta reported experiencing moral distress daily or weekly, a new study led by Dr. Shannon Spenceley, a University of Lethbridge nursing professor, has revealed. “Moral distress is what a health-care provider

Biology professor and cancer researcher Dr. Roy Golsteyn may have found the building blocks to a new cancer-fighting drug — and it was growing in the prairie landscape outside his University of Lethbridge lab all along. Golsteyn says the need for new cancer drugs is constant and, as a scientist who’

The University of Lethbridge will embark on the creation of a new interdisciplinary research facility that promises to be Canada’s leading cellular imaging research centre thanks to a $2 million investment from the Government of Canada’s Canada Foundation for Innovation. Today, the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State

Growing up in Victoria, B.C., Dr. Jennifer Mather loved exploring the seashore. Rather than being drawn to larger animals like seals and whales, Mather was curious about much smaller life forms. “It was just fascinating,” she says. “I was looking at snails, hermit crabs, sea anemones and I was

Dr. Erin Spring, a post-doctoral fellow with the University of Lethbridge’s Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS), will build on her doctoral research as she embarks on a local project with First Nations young adults. Her previous work honed in on Canadian youths’ responses to place and identity

Astronomers will be able to peer farther back in time with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), an international astronomy project that has involved the utilization of University of Lethbridge technology. Canada recently announced it will provide almost $250 million in funding over the next 10 years to help build the

University of Lethbridge kinesiology professor Dr. Claudia Gonzalez is among a group of 150 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC) announced this week by the Government of Canada. The Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology), unveiled a $139-million investment, with an additional $7.6 million in

Their first sight of the imposing four-story brick edifice that was the main administration building at Michener Centre was etched in the memories of many children, chiseling a turning point in their lives. One woman described her experience as a 10-year-old. ‘I was told to sit down and wait in

Dr. Claudia Malacrida has thrown the doors open on an era of Alberta’s past that many would prefer to forget. Her new book, A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta’s Eugenic Years, talks about life at the infamous Michener Centre from the perspective of people who lived there,

It has been 70 years since the world was introduced to the devastating power of an atomic bomb, and as the anniversary of the first detonation approaches, a University of Lethbridge professor is embarking on a unique project that examines the growing global phenomenon of atomic tourism – one that attracts

If there is one thing that plants do well, it’s take changes in stride. “Plants have an amazing capacity to respond immediately to stress and to propagate this response so future generations can be better prepared too,” says University of Lethbridge researcher Dr. Igor Kovalchuk. A professor in the

On the first day of Chem 500, a class of first-year students at the University of Lethbridge, Dr. Michelle Hogue asks a simple question: “Who’s afraid of chemistry?” Like clockwork, most of the students raise their hands. While science can be intimidating for anyone, for First Nations, Métis and

The public is invited to learn more about research being conducted at the University of Lethbridge through the annual Community University Research Exchange (CURE) and the Meeting of the Minds conference Friday and Saturday. Friday’s CURE event highlights the research being done by U of L faculty and students

Dr. Michael Kyweriga, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Majid Mohajerani’s lab at the University of Lethbridge, will be able to build understanding of tinnitus thanks to a postgraduate fellowship from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions. Tinnitus, a condition in which a person hears constant ringing, buzzing or hissing noises, often

From its 2,500-year-old roots in eastern India, Buddhism has evolved into the fastest-growing philosophical religion in the West, one that has sparked diverse groups of practitioners — including many celebrities — spawned countless books, and is often glamourized in Hollywood films. Dr. John Harding wants to know why. More specifically, the

A more effective way to give skin grafts to burned children. Advanced materials for producing safer and more robust airplanes and cars. A computer-assisted device for performing neurosurgery that is guided by real-time MRI brain scans. The potential to meet humankind’s growing energy needs through the safe production of

The diverse sexual behaviour of the female Japanese macaque is reminiscent of human patterns of sexuality, particularly female sexual fluidity, suggests a new study from University of Lethbridge researchers. The research, conducted at three different field sites in Japan and involving four free-ranging groups of Japanese macaques, compared two non-conceptive

Funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation will help position the University of Lethbridge as a leader in cryogenic testing and open the doors to participation in future space missions. The $150,000 announced today will go towards the purchase of a cryogenic testing facility (CTF) capable of testing instruments

Continuing to create collaborative opportunities between researchers and external stakeholders, the University of Lethbridge presents its third annual Community University Research Exchange (CURE) event on Mar. 20, 2015. This free event is focused on bringing U of L researchers together with community members to initiate and support collaborative research relationships.

One of Dr. Noella Piquette’s current research foci is prevention of reading difficulties. The University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education professor says,“There’s trustworthy evidence setting out what it takes to teach children to read,” she says. “By following it, can we have most children reading and writing

This degree is rich in research, but rich as well in professional practice, because we’re carrying on the integration between theory and practice we have always emphasized throughout both our undergraduate and master’s programs. “I was born in Saskatchewan at the age of 24,” Dr. Richard Butt likes

University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education professor Dr. Janice Rahn researches as an artist and writer. She works between the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts to question how art practice informs curriculum theory in project-based inquiry. Rahn often collaborates with partner, Michael Campbell (Faculty of Fine

In our multicultural, multi-lingual society, a growing number of educators are using life writing to build bridges of understanding between increasingly diverse populations. “Life writing is articulating your own and others’ lived experiences, ideas, values, and feelings,” explains Dr. Erika Hasebe-Ludt, University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. Students who practice

It turns out that eating fermented food and drink, including beer, for the past 7,000 years has led to the evolution of bacteria that may hold the key to strengthening the immune system in both humans and livestock. A team of international researchers, led by Harry Gilbert of Newcastle