Undergraduate student Jason Beaver claimed the Best Student Oral Presentation Award as the University of Lethbridge’s Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC) was prominent at the 37th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, held recently in Winnipeg. Both undergraduate students and senior faculty members attended the annual conference as ATIC continued

Ian Veenendaal, a doctoral student in Dr. David Naylor’s astrophysics lab at the University of Lethbridge, has always been curious about how things work. His quest to build a spectrometer that can operate at cryogenic temperatures has earned him an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship through the Natural

The high school students in Deborah Jarvie’s Systems and Supply Chain Management class are well on their way to being ready for university-level coursework, thanks to the dual credit initiative (DCI) between Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and the University of Lethbridge. The class was the second DCI course; Liberal Education

Art student awards were recently presented at the conclusion of the annual Art Department Open House, which invites the public to visit the U of L Centre for the Arts and view the array of artwork of every description and size, created by art majors over their year of study.

Music major Carey-Lyn Holt has been a storyteller since she was a child. On April 7, in the University Theatre, Holt tells a different kind of story with the premiere of her composition Claudius, performed by the University of Lethbridge Wind Orchestra. “The piece is about the Roman Emperor Claudius,

An applied research project by a University of Lethbridge digital audio arts student has shown competitive swimmers swim more efficiently when they listen to music. Spencer Simkin, who will complete his degree this spring, wanted to find a way to bridge his love of music, and his digital audio arts

The University of Lethbridge 3 Minute Thesis competition wrapped up Friday with the presentation of four awards. First place went to Douglas Kiss, a neuroscience student who’s working on a master’s degree. His presentation was titled ‘Metabolic Repercussion of Concussion.’ Candace Burke, also a neuroscience master’s student,

Hearing stories about life on the farm in southern Alberta never gets old for Shelby Forster. The second-year history student is in the midst of an applied study with the Galt Museum to collect oral histories from people who are or have been involved in farm life, and she’s

Some familiar names have appeared on this year’s list of winners in the U of L’s Play Right Prize and Striking Prose competitions. Three of the winners, Blair Yoxall, Garrett Bishoff, and AJ Baragar also won awards in 2015 and, for the first time ever an individual, Garrett

Chemistry research is play for Jackson Knott, and he talks about his work in the lab with as much excitement as someone who’s found buried treasure. His fire for chemistry research hasn’t gone unnoticed as he recently received a national honour from the Canadian Society for Chemistry (Division

A passion for theatre, a love of music, and the opportunity to work closely with dramatic arts faculty members brought a unique opportunity to dramatic arts student AJ Baragar: composing music for the University of Lethbridge’s mainstage production, The Caucasian Chalk Circle [https://www.uleth.ca/notice/events/caucasian-chalk-circle-bertolt-brecht-translated-frank-mcguinness]

When most people think of video games they think of a toy, a game, a way to waste a few hours having fun. When master's student Cassandra Allenby (BFA '15) thinks about video games she sees the potential for so much more. “I love video games, playing

Felix Schiel, a student from Magdeburg, Germany, only arrived in Canada in September but it didn’t take him long to adapt to the life of a University of Lethbridge student and get a little richer in the process. Attending classes and living in residence, Schiel quickly honed in on

Kaelah Collins’ (BA ’15) keen interest in Asian culture has paid a dividend she never expected. Collins learned she won the Michael Chan Prize in Asian Studies for an essay she wrote for Dr. John Harding’s Zen Buddhism 3000-level class last April. “I was shocked. I know that I’

Participating in a course like the Study Tour of Japan gives students an education that goes beyond learning in a university classroom and the typical tourist experience. Students gain firsthand knowledge of life in Japan from those who live there. “The purpose of the trip is to provide students with

Following a season in which she was named a second team All-Canadian, a Canada West All-Star and a CIS Championship tournament all-star, fourth-year wing Nicole Ronsky of the Pronghorns women's rugby team has been named to Canada's Maple Leaf roster for the opening round of the

The University of Lethbridge’s incomparable iGEM program achieved a gold medal standing at iGEM 2015 recently, debuting a project that may soon eradicate a widespread agricultural problem. It was the ninth time that a U of L team participated in the annual International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in

As a way to implement theory gained in the classroom to a real world setting, an applied study gives students an experience that makes their learning come alive. Erin Davis, a third-year University of Lethbridge student working on a Bachelor of Arts and Science in psychology and religion, has found

The 11 students who participated in the University of Lethbridge’s first Hungary Work Study program gained new experiences and knowledge and a few even came away with job offers. The students faced the challenge of working at a job in a foreign country where the majority of their co-workers

For Anna Kovalchuk (BSc ’14, MSc ’15), the door has been open for her to study virtually anywhere she’d like, and yet it’s never been a question as to where she really wants to be – the University of Lethbridge. “A lot of people asked why I was doing

Our sonic environment is composed of hundreds of different sounds that range from breathing, to traffic, to children’s voices at the playground down the street. For the average listener, these sounds blend together to create static background noise, which is easy to ignore. Alex Bohn and Max Hopkins have

Like many successful entrepreneurs, Matt Anderson and Adam Graham got inspired when they paid attention to something that had been bugging them for months. It had been staring them right in the face all along — the same old ads, month after month, in the men’s washrooms on campus. The

What usually takes hours to describe in a classroom came instantly alive for the 14 students who signed up for the University of Lethbridge’s first ever Philippine Field Study course. Offered through the Department of Women and Gender Studies, Dr. Glenda Bonifacio wanted her students to learn about global

A group of University of Lethbridge graduate students is patenting a process that harnesses the power of the body’s own cells to repair scar tissue in the brain – thereby opening up a new world of possibilities for treating stroke and traumatic brain injury. The students, who just recently formed