By BOB COONEY
Faced with what University of Lethbridge officials describe as a ‘perfect storm’ of financial challenges, members of the University community are being asked to re-examine the way they do business to address a significant budget shortfall in coming years.
By TREVOR KENNEY
A touchdown dance is in the offing and chances are it will be a crowded end zone the weekend of Sept. 25-26, when the University of Lethbridge’s new Sports Stadium Complex is officially, and finally, opened.
The University of Lethbridge’s 2009-2013 Strategic Plan is a plan for the future, one that will chart the general direction of the University over the next five years. It is a promise to stay true to who we are and continue doing what we do very well – fostering a personal, supportive learning community; ensuring professors are inspired scholars who integrate research and creativity with teaching; and delivering relevant programs that are meaningful and useful to our students.
By BOB COONEY
A University of Lethbridge Faculty of Health Sciences researcher will receive more than $180,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Palliative and End of Life Peer Review Committee within the Population and Public Health Institute) over the next three years to study a little known, but significant population of Canadians and their beliefs about death and dying.
By TREVOR KENNEY
He’s been known to incorporate the Simpson’s cartoon family into his lectures and inspire students to say they could “listen to him all day”. He’s also earned the reputation as a meticulous planner and master of his scholarship. For that, and a variety of other reasons, Dr. Ian McAdam is the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award recipient.
By TREVOR KENNEY
It’s not as though Dave Adams (BEd ’82) was looking for a job – it just so happened that the job came calling for him.
By JANA MCFARLAND
Richardson’s ground squirrels, better known as gophers, are an iconic symbol of the prairies and their emergence serves as a telltale sign of spring. But to many, they are considered pests, a nuisance and a species best done away with.
Dr. Dennis Fitzpatrick is known for his “think-big, shoot-high and don’t-be-afraid-to-ask” philosophy. Over the last decade, he has led the University of Lethbridge through an institutional transformation, and the U of L, now a leading comprehensive university, is recognized on provincial, national and international stages for its research excellence.
By TREVOR KENNEY
Numbers can be cold, hard and impersonal. Put them in the hands of Dr. Susan McDaniel however and they can be used to influence policy decisions that effect change at the most personal of levels.
By KATHERINE WASIAK
The U of L Art Gallery has sent Drawn from the Past: the portraits and practice of Nicholas de Grandmaison to the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum in Hannover, Germany for an exhibition from April 24 to Aug. 2, 2009.
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