Kappa Sigma fraternity establishes scholarship
Students are typically the beneficiaries of scholarships, not the benefactors. However, Kappa Sigma fraternity is challenging that perception by establishing a scholarship, making them not only students, but donors.
Kappa Sigma has been part of the U of L since 2004, and was officially chartered as Omicron-Xi in 2006. The fraternity currently has 42 active undergraduate members who aim to enhance their university experience through their involvement with the fraternity.
Jackie Flanagan says it like it is
Jackie Flanagan is not afraid to ask the hard questions. She approaches difficult subjects with uncommon candour and the intensity of someone looking to make a difference.
Ask Flanagan, for example, what matters to Albertans and she’ll answer abstractly at first, with a casual reference to education. When she begins talking about funding for education initiatives, however, things get very specific very quickly.
At the root of it, technology has long been applied to health and wellness on many levels. X-ray technology, for instance, was discovered in the 1880s and is now used by hospitals every day to see inside the bodies of patients.
But what is new, is the extent to which health sciences is embracing technology as a means to both diagnose and treat patients in a clinical setting, and study how the body works.
How music may aid in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
Music has power – it’s a certain fact that few, if any, will deny. From the earliest of our days, our mothers sing us lullabies, and later as children we learn ABC’s and nursery rhymes to sweet little tunes. Music has the power to make us believe in something greater than ourselves. It crosses cultural, generational and racial barriers. It is the sure go-to when we’re feeling low in spirits or high as a kite, and on more than one occasion has been just the romantic backdrop needed to make heartstrings tug.
As Canadians age, researchers look to improve our quality of life
There isn’t any avoiding it. Day by day, all Canadians – from newborns to seniors – are getting older. In fact, the country’s large population of baby boomers is rapidly approaching retirement age. In 2011, the first of the generation will turn 65; by 2015, there will be more people in Canada over the age of 65 than under 15.
The ancient city of Sana’a in Yemen is a place of paradoxes. People in long robes with covered heads and veiled faces line the busy streets, while adjacent shop windows showcase western mannequins sporting the latest in high fashion. Luxury vehicles veer stealthily around four-wheeled relics that by all accounts shouldn’t be able to move. Street vendors hawk pirated Hollywood movies long before they’ve reached theatre screens in the West, while calls to prayer resound across the city fives times each day.
"I'm aware going into this it's likely I'll take away more than I'm able to give." Christina MacDonald
Christina MacDonald has cleaned hurricane-ravaged streets in Honduras, taught English to Ethiopian children and delivered food to disadvantaged seniors in her hometown of Fort Smith, N.W.T.
For as long as he can remember, U of L alumnus David Hoffos (BFA ’94) has been fascinated with magic, illusion, trickery and deception.
As a child, he was absorbed with movies like Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. – watching them as many as 20 to 30 times. Later in high school, Hoffos took in almost every Alfred Hitchhock movie at a local repertory theatre.
The road to a three-time championship
For a program that has claimed three successive national championships, remarkably, the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns women’s rugby team does not focus on winning. The goal for this group is to see just a little improvement every day and – for three years – it has made the Horns better than every other post-secondary team in the country.
U of L alum Derek Robinson has Canada’s Olympic athletes thinking their way to success
Canada’s Olympic athletes work tirelessly to create strong bodies but what can’t be overlooked is how mental strength can make the difference in reaching the medal podium in Vancouver. That’s where University of Lethbridge alumnus Derek Robinson (BA ’00, MEd ’03) makes his contribution to the Olympic effort.
