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Congratulations to Denton Fredrickson and Catherine Ross, Fine Arts who were successful in their application to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG) Art Project! The commission was advertised internationally and over 40 artists and artists teams from as far away as Germany applied to create and install a public art work at the Gallery. Aeolian Aviary, 2010 which was unveiled to mark the...

Over 70 teams competed at the iGEM Americas Regional Jamboree in Indianapolis, IN from October 7-10 for a chance at a spot at the World Championships.  The U of L iGEM team was named one of four Regional Finalist and advances to the...

The University of Lethbridge has two Tier II Canada Research Chairs (CRC) remaining in its allocation. The Office of the Vice President Research is soliciting proposals to fill these Chair positions.  Tier II Chairs are awarded for a five year term and are targeted at exceptional emerging researchers (less than 10 years from receipt of a...

ORIS wishes to congratulate the winners of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Chinook Symposium:

Chinook Poster Prize in Chemistry (Undergraduate level)
First - Breanne Kamenz (Hayes Lab)
Second - Saif Zahir (Hayes Lab)

Chinook Poster Prize in Chemistry (Master's level)
First - Mona Taghavikish (Boere Lab)
Second...

UPDATE: The webinar discussed the many opportunities available to graduate students and scholars through Fulbright Canada. An archived version of the webinar is available here.

 

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Kudos!  The U of L iGEM travelled to Edmonton to compete at Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures headquarters for the aGEM (Alberta Genetically Engineered Machines Competition) BioTool with teams from the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary in...

If you are thinking about starting industrial collaboration, try to use resources from NSERC. The Engagen and Interaction programs are designed to facilitate the initial stage of academia-industry collaboration. Please check out the attached for more inforation, or contact Morgan Guo for details.

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Our Research Matters online newsletter has been sent out to faculty. If you aren't on the subscription list to receive this valuable source of funding and deadline information, contact Penny D'Agnone who will ensure you are added.

Dr. Dan Johnson has been invited to visit the Institute of Plant Protection (IPP), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.  He will spend the fall 2010 semester at IPP and give a series of lectures on biostatistics, help MSc and PhD students design their ecological experiments and data analyzing, and review the students' manuscripts.

You are invited to join us for an panel discussion on Post-disaster response: Research into community resiliency after wildfire.  The evening will include a discussion into the processes exploited by thriving resilient communities when faced with altered environments.  See the event ...