Legacy and Connection
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Featured Alumni of the Month: Sydney Gelineaou-Olay
Inaugurated at the University of Lethbridge's Spring 2003 Convocation, School of Graduate Studies Medals of Merit are awarded to graduating students from each degree program for excellence in their studies. Graduating with a Master's of Counselling and majoring in applied psychology, Sydney Gelineau-Olay (MC '24) is now a recipient of this prestigious award!
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Alumni Supporters
For more than 40 years, the Faculty of Education and countless students have benefitted from the generosity of the Wigham Family. Darol and Evelyn Wigham believed in the importance of giving back and showing gratitude for the doors opened by higher education. Shortly after their daughter, Patricia, completed her Bachelor of Education in 1981, Darol and Evelyn began what has turned into an incredible legacy at ULethbridge.
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Lifelong Learning
Whether you graduated last year or decades ago, there’s always an opportunity to get involved with the University of Lethbridge.
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Alumni Giving
Your contribution to the Faculty of Education has a profound impact on the future of teaching. By supporting our programs, you empower the next generation of educators with the skills and resources they need to excel. Your generosity helps fund scholarships, enhance learning experiences, and provide essential support for students embarking on their teaching careers. Join us in shaping the future of education—your gift makes a difference!
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Jade Oldfield Wins International Chess Award
Every year, Chess.com select five students to win a Chessable Research Award. This prestigious international prize is awarded on an annual basis to graduate and undergraduate students conducting university-level chess research. As the largest chess corporation in the world with over 100 million subscribers, to say the odds of being selected are one in a million would not be an oversight. Leaving nothing to chance, University of Lethbridge alumna and current neuroscience student, Jade Oldfield (BEd ‘18), is now a 2024 Chessable Research Award winner.
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Jerome Cranston Launches New Book
Part social commentary and very much a memoir, Half-Caste: Decidedly Brown in a Black or White World, describes and examines the contemporary pressures that many people from multiracial and mixed ethnicities face in developing their racialized social identity so that they and others may feel comfortable with who they are and how they identify themselves in their own skin.
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Hayley Bedard Wins William Aberhart Gold Medal in Education
Each year, the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) awards the William Aberhart Gold Medal in Education. This award is given to the University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education student who attains the highest general proficiency in the final two years of a Bachelor of Education program. This year's recipient is Hayley Bedard (BA/BEd '24).
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