University of Calgary

The Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre (SIPRC) in the Faculty of Kinesiology has been named an international research centre for the prevention of injury and protection of athlete health by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).…

Aresearch team at the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre (SMC) is leading patient recruitment for the largest international randomized clinical trial for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. STABILITY-2 will compare…

You’ve heard that saying, “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” To effectively take care of others, we must first take care of ourselves.A UCalgary Faculty of Social Work professor sees this as key to the wellness of frontline care workers…

Loss is the measure of war — and while human lives are the paramount sacrifice, the residual cost of conflict can run deeply in any society that takes to arms.For Calgary, one such blow was the demise of the city’s first university, a…

People with inflammatory bowel diseases develop inflammation of the intestine that can cause thickening of the gut wall and life-threatening blockage of the intestinal tube. Twenty to 50 per cent of people with Crohn’s disease and…

Every year in Canada, 58 per cent of the food produced is thrown away, costing Canadian consumers almost $1,700 per household when it goes bad.Recognizing this issue, a group of undergraduate students from the University of Calgary…

Elders and Indigenous community members gathered at the University of Calgary Sept. 30 to mark the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with a special flag-lowering ceremony.The National Day started out as Orange Shirt Day in…

University of Calgary researchers have shown that the antibiotic D-Cycloserine (DCS) increases the effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for people with major depressive disorder (MDD). TMS is a non-invasive,…

In the summer of Grade 11, Bill Zheng and some high school friends were so impressed by the LavaMaeˣ Pop-Up Care Villages (PUCVs) in the San Francisco Bay Area — designed to bring services like showers, health care, clothing and haircuts…

With 1.4 million residents in a rapidly growing city, our local communities face issues that are often complex and ever changing. In the past few years, Calgarians have been thrust into situations many could never have imagined, let alone…