A new national survey has found fan interest in pro football to be remarkably robust as the 101st Grey Cup game approaches this Sunday in Regina. While hockey continues to be followed by a nation-leading 46% of Canadians, 33% now say that they are close followers of the CFL and/

The Government of Canada has named Dr. Kristine Alexander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Lethbridge, a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Child and Youth Studies. Alexander, who investigates how 20th-century children and youth were affected by imperialism, globalization and war, is the U of

The University of Lethbridge’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team captured two prominent awards at the iGEM 2013 World Championship Jamboree, Nov. 1-4 in Cambridge, Mass. Fresh off claiming the top prize in the North American Jamboree in Toronto last month, the U of L team once again showed

A research project underway at Chinook Regional Hospital aims to determine if having medical information at the fingertips of student nurses improves their clinical decision-making at patient bedside. During the 15-month study, which started last May, about 30 fourth-year nursing students from the University of Lethbridge will have an application

University of Lethbridge epigenetic researcher Dr. Igor Kovalchuk was honoured with the Innovation in Agricultural Science Award at the 2013 ASTech Awards held in Calgary Oct. 25. The Innovation in Agricultural Science Award recognizes an individual, team, or company that has demonstrated exceptional innovation or has developed a technology of

The University of Lethbridge is excited to launch a new website today ( www.ulethbridge.ca/research [http://www.ulethbridge.ca/research]) that will serve as the public face of research at the U of L. “As one of Canada’s most influential research institutions, we are home to world-renowned researchers,

A University of Lethbridge researcher is calling for more comprehensive, and compulsory, early childhood vision assessments to help reduce potential learning and behavioural difficulties that affect children with impairments to eyesight and visual function. In a paper recently published in the Journal of Optometry and Vision Performance (http://www.oepf.

The late English writer Rudyard Kipling once reflected, “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” University of Lethbridge students Karissa Patton (BA ’13) and Maria Livingston would likely agree with that observation. Last summer, Patton, who is now pursuing a master’s degree

Rajat Thapa (BSc ’12) may have started his undergraduate studies in the United States, but he knows exactly what drew him to the University of Lethbridge to complete his Bachelor of Science in neuroscience: “The world-renowned neuroscience faculty at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN),” says the native of

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

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

Brooks will be giving his initial talk to the U of L audience on Thursday, Dec. 5 from 3 to 4 p.m. in WE1001, presenting Understanding Risks of Fish on Prozac, Bugs on Drugs and other Harbingers of an Urbanizing Water Cycle Dr. Bryan Brooks, a professor of environmental

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.

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

Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures (AITF) has named Dr. Hans Joachim Wieden as the Innovates Centre of Research Excellence (iCORE) Chair of Bioengineering. AITF’s $2-million investment, over five years, further enables Wieden’s University of Lethbridge research team to study how biological systems can be engineered to achieve breakthroughs in materials

A new program in the University of Lethbridge’s Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN) presents an incredible opportunity for the next generation of scientists. The Biological Information Processing (BIP): From Genome to Systems Level program (www.uleth.ca/artsci/neuroscience/student-opportunities) [http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/neuroscience/student-opportunities)], funded

Standing knee-deep in a crisp, clear mountain stream, casting a fly as a rainbow trout flashes by, it’s hard to imagine the province’s water supply in jeopardy. We take for granted that when we turn the tap for a glass of water, it will be there, that when

University of Lethbridge Neuroscience researcher Dr. Bruce McNaughton is receiving a significant award from a major US-based neuroscience research institute located at Indiana University, in Bloomington, IN. As part of the annual Indiana University – Bloomington Gill Centre for Biomolecular Science Symposium [http://www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/symposiums.shtml], McNaughton, the

Two University of Lethbridge humanities and social sciences researchers studying vastly different projects will receive support for their work from the Parkland Institute, a not-for profit organization based at the University of Alberta that supports the study of economic, social, cultural and political issues facing Albertans and Canadians. Dr. Suzanne