Alumna artist takes visitors to the Helen Christou Gallery via Instagram Artist and curator Katie Marie Bruce (BFA – Art ’11) opened her exhibition, Field Notes: Inhabiting that Skin, in the University of Lethbridge Helen Christou Gallery, on March 6, 2020 – only five days before
Graduate Student Profile: Benjamin Dosu Jnr, PhD Benjamin hopes his study will be the first steps towards improving water security for marginalized communities.
Research Highlight: Nicola Elson and Julia Wasilewski Have you heard of Hootenanny? Nicola and Julia invite you to enjoy this community-building, family theatre experience.
Graduate Student Profile: Harley Morman, PhD Harley is a visual artist who blends his artistic talent with his interest in contemporary art, material culture, and trans studies.
CRC Monique Giroux hopes to inspire future Indigenous researchers Canada Research Chair Dr. Monique Giroux (Music) engages students in her research projects with the hope of inspiring the next generation of Indigenous researchers and ethnomusicologists.
Research Highlight: Dr. Mark Walton Can theories of the microscopic be reconciled with our everyday, macroscopic world?
Research Highlight: Dr. Amy Shaw What happens when Canadian citizens finally meet their fabled ‘enemy’?
Janet Youngdahl Celebrates the Works of Female Composer Barbara Strozzi In celebration of the 400th anniversary of 17th century composer Barbara Strozzi, Janet Youngdahl (Music) will perform and present research with collaborators and colleagues throughout the coming months.
Short Film by Fine Arts Alumni Hits Film Festival Circuit Short film “A Wink or a Smile”, written and directed by Blake Evernden, had its first screening and was awarded “Short best comedy” by the Alternative Film Festival, and has been accepted to the International Shorts Film Festival
Canada's Most Advanced Facility for Science A new era in scientific research and education has dawned with the official opening of the University of Lethbridge’s $280-million Science Commons.
Art and Science Collide at Big Bang Weekend The opening celebration of the Science Commons at the University of Lethbridge not only highlighted the phenomenal new space for science exploration, it also highlighted the involvement and importance of the arts in research and scientific discovery.
Employee Spotlight: Dr. Brendan McAllister, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience Meet Dr. Brendan McAllister, a post-doctoral fellow conducting research in Dr. Majid Mohajerani's neuroscience lab.
Employee Spotlight: Nicole Bach (BSc '19), Project Manager, Destination Project Nicole Bach has been involved with the Destination Project from its earliest days through to completion, all while finishing her degree!
Drama Faculty Members Theatre Company Wins Multiple Awards Jay Whitehead's Theatre Outré won the Downtown Innovators Award and the Hilton Edwards Award for Best Aspect of a Production. They also held the world premiere of alumnus Marshall Vielle's 'Where the Two-Spirit Lives' in 2019.
Employee Spotlight: Dr. Borries Demeler, Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Dr. Borries Demeler, whose expertise is in analytical ultracentrifugation, once made his living as a carpenter.
Alumni Profile: Samuel Williams (BFA-New Media '08) Alumni profile of Samuel Williams, (BFA - New Media '08). Samuel is a concept artist, visual developer and art director working for companies such as Nickelodeon, Disney and LEGO.
Digital Audio Arts Student Buoyed by Support From Sakamoto Research Prize and Chinook Summer Research Award As an accomplished musician, Ryland Chambers-Moranz is comfortable on the stage and in the recording studio. As a Digital Audio Arts (DAA) student and researcher in the University of Lethbridge’s Faculty of Fine Arts, he’s proving just as adept at analyzing music in its analog and digital forms.
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
Food-Supply Matchmaking: Exploring Food Connection Options in Southern Alberta John Usher, uLethbridge Dhillon School of Business professor, investigated whether local producers could benefit from a regional food hub, and unearthed new ways local producers are connecting food to community.
Faculty-member Commissioned by Renowned Penderecki String Quartet Dr. Arlan Schultz, chair of the University of Lethbridge Department of Music, has been commissioned to write a new work for Ontario's internationally celebrated Penderecki String Quartet.
Graduate Student Profile: Migueltzinta Solis, MFA Through cultural hybridity and queering of rural political and cultural paradigms, Migueltzinta disentangles ideas of land and gender, western expansion and the imaging of colonially occupied territory.
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.
Improving Health Care for Older Adults Focusing on care for older adults in rural Alberta, Dr. Julia Brassolotto is using her interdisciplinary expertise as a social scientist and health-services researcher to examine how living in a rural area affects health and health care.