University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is celebrating three postdoctoral scholars who have been awarded Banting Fellowships. The recipients follow a shared theme focusing on maternal and early childhood health.The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship…

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), recently announced funding for several projects across Canada as part of an initiative called Preventing and Addressing Family Violence – the Health Perspective. Two of those projects are led by…

According to a recent study, Canadian veterinarians report poorer mental health compared to the general population — something the recipient of a new scholarship at the University of Calgary is hoping to change.The study, published in the…

Career prospects are top-of-mind for graduate students, and internships are essential to connecting them with industry opportunities. Biomedical engineering students at the University of Calgary recently began participating in the MedTech…

It’s kind of like the hit television show, Ice Road Truckers, only it’s on a train track.The Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) links the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba to communities like Gillam, Thompson and The Pas.It’s an important…

Research is not meant to be “something that just sits on a shelf somewhere or in a journal,” says Dr. Sharon Friesen. And that's why collaborating with an undergraduate student in the Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE)…

Five years ago, the University of Calgary’s Indigenous Strategy, ii’ taa’poh’to’p, was launched as part of its journey towards Indigenization. Each year since, UCalgary has hosted a special event to reflect upon the ongoing progress of…

The goals that Dr. Mehdi Mohammadi Ashani, PhD, and Dr. Stephanie Bishop, PhD, share for their research inspired them to become academic entrepreneurs.“We are going from invention in the lab to innovation and commercialization,” Mohammadi…

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…