Employee Spotlight: Dr. Kristine Alexander | Associate Professor of History, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Child and Youth Studies For Kristine, the best part of her job is interacting with students!
List of Canada’s Most Powerful Women Recognizes Alumna Women’s Executive Network (WXN) recently named alumna Tevi Legge (BA/BMgt ’08) on their list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100.
Marathon of Afghanistan Documentary has uLethbridge Connection As the co-director and producer of the documentary The Secret Marathon, alumna Kate McKenzie (BA/BEd ’07) trained and travelled to Afghanistan to not only run her first marathon, but to also share the stories of the courageous women who are fighting for gender equality through sport.
Shining Student | Madeline Szabo As a hammer thrower with uLethbridge’s Pronghorns track and field team, Madeline Szabo is used hauling heavy weights. But thanks to the various scholarships she’s received since coming to uLethbridge, financing her education is one burden she doesn’t have to carry.
Mitacs Award Winner Takes Studies Overseas to Italy Austin Kothig was awarded the Mitacs Globalink Research Award through collaboration between uLethbridge neuroscience professor, Dr. Matthew Tata, and Dr. Francesco Rea from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy.
Diverse Skill Set Aids Geography Graduate Banting in Professional Career For geography alumnus James Banting (BSc ’09, MSc ’16), the University of Lethbridge was the environment he needed to discover his passion. He started with general science, looked at political science and finally settled on geography.
Graduate Student Profile: Elani Bykowski, MSc Elani Bykowski searches for more efficient and cost-effective ways of diagnosing brain and spinal cord injury
Shining Student | Sarah Orban - Kinesiology/Psychology As a talented student athlete with Olympic aspirations in track cycling, this week's Shining Student knows the importance of keeping her balance. Meet Sarah!
Graduate student spotlight: Anna Kovalchuk (MSc) How can neuroscience help chemotheraphy patients? It’s a question graduate student Anna Kovalchuk (BSc ’14) is seeking to answer. At the U of L, Anna is working alongside some of the world’
Graduate student spotlight: Auburn Phillips (MA) Auburn Phillips was looking for something different in a graduate program. She found it at the U of L. Given the opportunity to have your student experience defined for you or to have
Employee Spotlight: Dr. Trushar Patel Science took Patel, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, from a small village in India to uLethbridge, with stops in England and Manitoba along the way.
Graduate Student Profile: Clifford Donovan, MSc Artificial neural networks and deep learning are helping Clifford understand how addiction functions within the brain.
Employee Spotlight: Dr. Laura Keffer-Wilkes (MSc '12, PhD '16) Dr. Laura Keffer-Wilkes has worn plenty of hats during her time at the U of L, including being one of the founders of Spooky Science.
Graduate student spotlight: Ian Veenendaal (PhD) > “Dr. David Naylor, my supervisor, always says a space mission is the making of a career. As soon as I’m done my PhD, space agencies will be looking for people with
Creating a Brighter Future for Elementary School Students Working with a local elementary school, uLethbridge alumna and neuroscience researcher Dr. Robbin Gibb is taking leading brain research right into the classroom.
Lighting the Way in Alzheimer's Research Researchers the U of L's CCBN and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are working together to shine new light on Alzheimer's disease.
Scholarship Honours Dua's Passion for Learning and Knowledge Long before Dr. Bhagwan Dua ever ventured to the unknown prairies of southern Alberta, he was a young man in New Delhi, a teenager who hadn’t completed high school. His older brother ignited a spark that would change his life’s course and create an insatiable love for learning.
Graduate student spotlight: Jillian King (MA) Why are some parents saying no to vaccinations? It wasn’t until she took an undergraduate anthropology course at the University of Lethbridge that Jillian King (BASc ’12) discovered she had an interest
Graduate student spotlight: Kristy Kutanzi (PhD) Curiosity is what drives Kristy Kutanzi As an undergraduate student at the University of Lethbridge, Dr. Kristy Kutanzi (BSc '06, PhD '11) worked with Dr. Olga Kovalchuk, a nationally recognized researcher
Shining New Light on Virus Pandemics From Dengue fever to Zika virus, a different virus pandemics makes headlines almost monthly. University of Lethbridge's Dr. Trushar Patel and his team are shining new light on viruses in an effort to inhibit their replication.
Graduate student spotlight: Lanna Petterson (PhD) and Scott Semenyna (PhD) > I completed my undergraduate degree at uLethbridge and I was fortunate to have been provided with supervision, mentorship and opportunities for growth I would not have been granted otherwise, particularly during my
Graduate student spotlight: Leon Crane Bear (MSc) "I chose to pursue graduate studies at the University of Lethbridge because of its smaller size and quality of instruction and research"
Graduate student profile: Saturday Okeh After a 20-year absence, Saturday Okeh decided it was time to do what seemed impossible: attain a graduate degree.
Siblings Pull Together to Fight Parkinson's Siblings Eleanor (Hummel) Smith (BEd ’91), Bernie Hummel and Ruth Hummel Thomson (MA ’10) have established the George and Alice Hummel Neuroscience Award in honour of their parents.