Recent Research Headlines

Recent Research Headlines

  • January 15, 2009 | Research
    Just as a scientist places a sample beneath a microscope lens to understand its subtlest parts, philosophers minutely examine an argument to determine how its components work together. Logics that can cope with...
  • January 14, 2009 | Research
    When Lorelei Harris was given responsibility for subject areas with which she was unfamiliar, naturally she fell back on her librarian training. Utilizing the resources at hand to educate herself in these new subjects,...
  • December 9, 2008 | Research
    It's not exactly the Hotel California, but for a number of students who check in to work at the University of Lethbridge Library, they never leave — that is, the profession. Two such examples are Danielle Sali, a...
  • October 27, 2008 | Funding and Grants
    This fall, Dr. Bruce McNaughton, one of the world's foremost experts in neurophysiology, proudly joined the University of Lethbridge's Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN). It's a "brain gain" made...
  • October 27, 2008 | Research
    On a map, the small town of Brooks, Alta., appears no different than any other rural location. But with only 13,000 people speaking approximately 90 different languages, Brooks has an uncharacteristically diverse...
  • October 27, 2008 | Research
    Dr. Christopher Hugenholtz and his research team are discovering that wind erosion is essential to preserving a balanced ecosystem. Thoughts of wind erosion bring to mind vivid imagery of the 1930s dust bowl –...
  • October 27, 2008 | Research
    Stress. There's a good chance you are experiencing it in your life right now or know someone who is. It's a buzzword that's become so pervasive in our culture that we hardly give it a second thought. However, U of L...
  • October 27, 2008 | Funding and Grants
    The answer to that question, according to Dr. Hans-Joachim Wieden, a Canada Research Chair in Physical Biochemistry and an Alberta Ingenuity-supported New Faculty Award recipient working on drug-resistance in bacteria,...
  • October 27, 2008 | Research
    The University continued to expand in 2007/2008 with four major projects highlighting campus activities. Ground was broken Feb. 15, 2007, on the $65-million Markin Hall project, a four-level complex that will house the...
  • October 20, 2008 | Research
    Are we becoming a historically illiterate nation or are we already there? What teaching strategies would pique the interest of today's techno-generation? These are a few of the types of questions U of L education...

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