University of Calgary

Many students dream of travelling, but don’t because of their studies and, in the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has made experiencing new places even harder.However, as study abroad programs relaunched during the winter semester…

Sometimes it’s being in the right place, at the right time. Paths cross, ideas form and magic happens. For two UCalgary instructors, that occurred this fall as they taught in neighbouring rooms at the same time. They went from crossing…

From Nov. 23 to 26, 2022, the University of Calgary was the host institution for the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) 2022 Celebration of Excellence and Engagement (COEE). The annual gathering is an opportunity for the RSC to celebrate…

What was originally planned to be a relaxing late-July day trip to Banff with his wife, ended up becoming much more for Dr. Anil Mehrotra, PhD’80, when he received an unexpected email.The message to the Schulich School of Engineering prof…

Edmonton architecture firm Rockliff Pierzchajlo Kroman Architects (RPK) is the first to provide financial backing to the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape’s (SAPL) new initiative to increase the number of Indigenous…

We’ve all had it happen: you fumble your cellphone and it lands on the ground, shattering the screen or cracking the body.Now, imagine your phone bouncing off the ground instead.Schulich School of Engineering researchers are hoping to…

In December 1955, a phone rang in the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.Given the relatively few people in the world who knew that specific number, it came as quite a surprise to Air Force…

When Dr. Renate Weller, DVM, PhD, opened the email saying she was to receive Alberta’s Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for her “significant contributions to Alberta” — helping increase the number of veterinarians — she had to…

While the global community was in a frenzy over the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar this past November and December, there was another major tournament that also recently captivated audiences worldwide: the Rugby World Cup 2021. From Oct. 8…

Atrailblazer in stroke care and treatment and two business leaders and philanthropists — all three with strong University of Calgary connections — have been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian…