Academic, artist, author and world traveller, Dr. Hiroshi Shimazaki is widely known for his watercolour landscape paintings. Shimazaki’s career at the U of L in management and human geography allowed him to incorporate his passion for travel and painting into his life journey.
While working on research projects around the world, he has always recorded his excursions through sketches and paintings.
Fine Arts alumnus Greg Christie finds beauty in neuroscience research
Greg Christie (BFA ’05) knows his way around graphic-design programs. It just so happens he also knows his way around neuroscience research labs. While on paper his polar interests seem an unlikely pair, in practice Christie’s love of art and science melds perfectly in his research that uses neuroimaging to study addictive behaviours.
As a veteran educator, Dr. Noëlla Piquette-Tomei, is an expert at integrating people with learning or physical disabilities into regular classroom settings. Her teaching and research interests have led her down many roads, including a recent trip to the United Nations as one of a handful of Canadians involved in a worldwide effort to make education systems more inclusive.
Chancellor named Citizen of the Year
Widely known as one Alberta’s most influential people, University of Lethbridge Chancellor Richard Davidson was recognized in May as the Lethbridge Citizen of the Year by the Rotary Club of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge Herald.
Mark Wobick (BSc’96) works in the financial sector and is a hockey coach to his novice-aged son; Trevor Ellerman (BMgt ’94) is the head professional at a golf course; Mike Babcock just coached the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey Team to a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics. What all three have in common is 1994, the year they were all University of Lethbridge Pronghorns and winners of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (then CIAU) men’s national hockey title.
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Kinahan holds community focus
Global connections
When you think of the University of Lethbridge’s global reach, you might not initially think of a connection to the current war in Afghanistan. However, that’s just where some members of the U of L student and alumni community are right now, based in Kandahar, Afghanistan, literally and figuratively one of the world’s hot spots.
The University of Lethbridge will embark upon a new era in July 2010 when Dr. Michael J. (Mike) Mahon officially assumes the role of U of L president and vice-chancellor.
Poised to become the University’s sixth president, Mahon will succeed Dr. Bill Cade, who has held the post since 2000.
“This is a very exciting opportunity for me and my family,” says Mahon, who will come to Lethbridge with his wife, Maureen. The couple has three grown children.
The Renter family honours a grandmother's legacy
David Renter’s undergraduate experience at the University of Lethbridge was anything but average – he attended class, studied and wrote tests, all alongside his grandmother, the late Evelyn Beattie.
“She was certainly a part of my U of L experience – she did most of my homework,” jokes David.
Morry Hunt gives back with student scholarship awards
Morry Hunt knows a good business opportunity when he sees one. When Hunt started Windriver Glass in 1995, he began bidding on contracts for the University of Lethbridge; since then, Windriver Glass has been involved in almost every major construction project at the
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