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  • Managing chronic pain by regulating the brain (Oct 19, 2008)
  • Upturning the status quo on diabetes management, treatment and prevention (Sep 19, 2008)
  • Is a Little Red Wine Good For Your Heart? (Sep 9, 2008)
  • Reducing Residential Wildfire Impacts in Alberta (Jun 23, 2008)
  • Do Heart Problems in Adults Begin Before Birth? (May 15, 2008)
  • Using social marketing as a tool to combat obesity epidemic (May 14, 2008)
  • Toward optimum protection for workers in high-risk environments (Apr 21, 2008)
  • Promoting corporate responsibility in the environment (Apr 15, 2008)
  • Translation in an Age of Globalization (Feb 13, 2008)
  • Making progress towards strong artificial intelligence (Jan 29, 2008)
  • Clarinetist Amber Campbell: Symphony is for Everybody (Jan 26, 2008)
  • Memorializing disappeared and murdered women through research (Dec 20, 2007)
  • Unraveling the Complexity of the ‘Little Brain’ (Nov 23, 2007)
  • Turning the Rumour Mill into a Research Machine (Nov 23, 2007)
  • Chernukha: Volha Isakava finds Light in Dark Corners (Oct 13, 2007)
  • For an 'Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice,' the EU Should Hear the Concerns of its Neighbours (Oct 4, 2007)
  • Popular African Video Films and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Nigerian Youth (Oct 4, 2007)
  • Facilitating HIV Care in Africa: Jean Harrowing, Helping Nurses Help Others (Oct 1, 2007)
  • Pamela Bonar: To Purify a Tiny Protein would be Enormous (Sep 26, 2007)
  • How to Master the Japanese Language: Just Keep Nodding! (Sep 17, 2007)
  • Kathy Adams: PowerPointing to Problems in Day-to-Day Classroom Experience (Sep 17, 2007)
  • Yu Feng: The Fuel Cell as Reactor (Sep 12, 2007)
  • Jason Wallin: Hunting/Haunting Pedagogical Practice (Sep 7, 2007)
  • Learning How to Walk Again: Kristin Musselman on the Rehabilitation of Spinal Injury Patients (Sep 7, 2007)
  • Geoff Morrison: Learning English Without Skipping a 'Beat' (Aug 30, 2007)
  • Qing Wen: A Subtle, Atomic-level Dance Between Molecules (Aug 26, 2007)
  • Greg Carrier: Blurring the Margins of Disability (Jul 23, 2007)
  • Per Anders Rudling: Casting Light on Belarus (Jul 13, 2007)
  • Hockey Night in (some of) Canada: Rod Murray on Racism in Canadian Sport (Jun 28, 2007)
  • Dawn Friesen: Finding Meaning One Stage at a Time (Jun 28, 2007)
  • Ben Tungland: Norwegian Lines in Business and Letters (Jun 5, 2007)
  • Cody McCarroll: The Smallholder's Miserable Fit of the Blues (May 7, 2007)
  • Lillian Bibangamba: Economic Freedom means Wealth for Developing Nations (Apr 23, 2007)
  • Anna Koop: Autonomous Robots Are Not Taking Over…Yet (Apr 9, 2007)
  • “Learning How to Be Here”: Poetry that Connects the Human and Non-human World (Mar 12, 2007)
  • Erik Saude: Today’s Medical Science Fiction is Tomorrow’s Reality (Feb 19, 2007)
  • Forests of the Future: Sustaining the Boreal Forest’s Biodiversity (Feb 7, 2007)
  • Medical Imaging: A Glimpse Inside the Human Body (Jan 30, 2007)
  • Don Gammon Prepares for Pox: Drugs of Yesterday for Infections of Tomorrow (Jan 24, 2007)
  • Easter Yassa: Learning by Following Curiosity (Jan 18, 2007)
  • The Undiscovered Country: Andrew Martin Journeys Inside the Lung (Jan 15, 2007)
  • Mehdi Dastfan: Working Towards the Earthquake-Proof Building (Jan 8, 2007)
  • Sufeng Zhang: Crafting “Magic Bullets” to Fight Bone Disease (Jan 2, 2007)
  • Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: Integrating the Languages of Science (Dec 29, 2006)
  • Gender Fever to the Nth Degree: Building a Theory of Transgender Architecture (Dec 20, 2006)
  • Darlene Chepil Reid: Composing Music that Refuses to Slip into the Background (Dec 11, 2006)
  • Potential for Peatlands after Mining Alberta's Oil Sands (Dec 5, 2006)
  • Mark Summers: “All-Optical Computers” Could Soon be a Part of Our Life (Nov 23, 2006)
  • Searching for Clues on Past Global Warming from Ancient Frozen Forests (Nov 10, 2006)
  • George Georgiou: Studying How You’re Able to Read These Words (Oct 26, 2006)
  • Eleni Pappa: Getting “In Tune” with Contemporary Composers of Music (Oct 18, 2006)
  • Research and discovery for Education’s undergrads (Sep 18, 2006)
  • Camille Hamula: Quality Drinking Water is Still an Important Issue in Canada (Sep 7, 2006)
  • Patricia Nadworny and the Healing Properties of Nanocrystalline Silver (Aug 31, 2006)
  • Mohammad Reza Shadnam: Developing Cost-Effective Laser Technologies for the Biomedical Sciences (Aug 28, 2006)
  • Transcultural Dialogues: Asma Sayed Examines Linguistic Hybridity in South Asian Canadian Writing (Aug 24, 2006)
  • Bonnie Watt-Malcolm: Overcoming Resistance to Women Entering the Industrial Sector (Aug 21, 2006)
  • Calendar girls don't give athletes a sporting chance (Aug 16, 2006)
  • Making the Personal Political: Deborah Foster and the Experience of Planned Two-Mother Families (Aug 14, 2006)
  • John Brough: Shedding Light on Two Important Canadian Composers (Aug 10, 2006)
  • Award offers opportunity to study peace (Aug 4, 2006)
  • John Walker: Contributing Research to the Puzzle of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Aug 3, 2006)
  • Sanjeeva Srivastava: Enhancing Plant Germination under Abiotic Stress Conditions (Aug 3, 2006)
  • Comics aren’t child’s play (Aug 2, 2006)
  • Greg Harris: Community-Based Research to Help Individuals Diagnosed with HIV (Jul 26, 2006)
  • Research measures pika populations (Jul 26, 2006)
  • WISEST girls grow into women of science (Jul 21, 2006)
  • University labs cultivate young science enthusiasts (Jul 21, 2006)
  • New grant opens windows on the world for grad students (Jul 20, 2006)
  • Vox Populi: T.L. Cowan Explores the Art of Spoken Word Performance (Jul 19, 2006)
  • Pesticide sours birds’ song (Jul 17, 2006)
  • Researchers pioneer ways to safeguard Alberta’s beef industry (Jul 17, 2006)
  • Richard Paproski: Research as a Partnership between the University and the Oil Industry (Jul 13, 2006)
  • Provincial award a sign of changing times, says U of A recipient (Jul 10, 2006)
  • Mark Watson: Exploring the Urban Indigenous Experience (Jul 6, 2006)
  • Muraari Vasudevan: Investigating Black Holes with a “Theory of Everything” (Jun 29, 2006)
  • Staffer’s innovation earns lifetime honour (Jun 22, 2006)
  • Steven Kembel: Getting to the Bottom of Root Ecology (Jun 21, 2006)
  • Scott Irvine: Working on the Cutting Edge of Engineering Physics (Jun 13, 2006)
  • Meiling Lu: Solving the Mystery of Arsenic Health Effects (Jun 12, 2006)
  • Charting the Change: The History Hidden in Rocks (Jun 6, 2006)
  • Daniel Preece on Challenges to Neo-liberalism in the Development of EU Social Policy (Jun 5, 2006)
  • Aaron Slepkov: Bridging the Worlds of Physics and Chemistry with Laser Optics (May 31, 2006)
  • Ruth Wolfe: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Professional and University Social Research (May 29, 2006)
  • Hugo Lachance: Coming to the U of A was “the best decision I ever made” (May 24, 2006)
  • Tonya Callaghan Investigates Homophobia in Canadian Catholic Schools (Apr 24, 2006)
  • Security and Development: Edward Akuffo Takes a Closer Look at Canada-Africa Relations (Apr 18, 2006)
  • Western toad suffering setbacks (Apr 12, 2006)
  • Wenying Shi: Teaching Teachers, Teaching a Generation (Apr 10, 2006)
  • Emotional Trauma and Recovery: Jessica Altrows Explores Experiences of Shame (Apr 7, 2006)
  • Having Your Voice Heard: Carly McLafferty Examines the Public Consultation Process for Building a Pipeline (Mar 30, 2006)
  • Seeing Better from Far Away: Maxwell Zhira on the Origins and Development of the Zimbabwean Crisis (Mar 27, 2006)
  • Sarah Pelletier: Improving Chemical Separation Time (Mar 24, 2006)
  • In and Out of Business: Megan McDougald on the Legitimacy of Small Professional Service Firms (Mar 21, 2006)
  • What’s in Our Drinking Water? Jeff Charrois Wants to Find Out (Mar 17, 2006)
  • Lost and Found in Translation: Colin Cherry on Developing Software to Bridge the Language Barrier (Mar 13, 2006)
  • The Secrets of Cuban Music Education (Mar 10, 2006)
  • Inkhaba Yahko Iphi?—Where is Your Navel? (Mar 3, 2006)
  • Amanda Coen: Deliberating about Democracy (Feb 25, 2006)
  • Lana Ciarniello: Finding Ways for Human Activity to Coexist with Grizzly Bears (Feb 24, 2006)
  • PhD finding a place for compassion in health care (Feb 22, 2006)
  • Awards for Research Reward us all: Katherine Bostik and the Importance of Attachment to Adolescent Suicide Prevention (Feb 17, 2006)
  • Rosemary Kohr: Giving the Nurses’ Perspective in her “Living Research” (Feb 17, 2006)
  • Weonsang Simon Ro: Working in Stem Cell Research with Glowing Mice (Feb 10, 2006)
  • Patience and Patients: Diane McNeil on the Importance of Research in and out of the University (Feb 9, 2006)
  • Chris Zindi: Coming to Canada to Study Agriculture in Zimbabwe (Feb 3, 2006)
  • Susan Armijo Olivo: Helping to Relieve the Chronic Pain of Patients with Temporomandibular Disorder (Jan 30, 2006)
  • A Monumental Summer: Celia Nicholls and Undergraduate Research in History (Jan 29, 2006)
  • Cattle byproduct may help in fire fighting (Jan 26, 2006)
  • Outback Education: Nicole Green, Examining the Distance in Distance Learning (Jan 24, 2006)
  • Preston Holloway: Finding Engineering Solutions for Metallurgical Wastes (Jan 23, 2006)
  • “Walking the Plankton”: Marie-Claire St-Jacques and the Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experience (Jan 19, 2006)
  • “Aboriginal Women and Sexual Assault: Intersectionality and Erasure”* (Jan 18, 2006)
  • Chris Lepock: Philosophically Engaged with How We Think (Jan 13, 2006)
  • Max Dupilka: Predicting the Strength of Storms in Alberta (Jan 13, 2006)
  • Education as a Resistance to Globalization: A Personal Struggle (Jan 8, 2006)
  • Matthew Tiessen and the Art of Being (Jan 4, 2006)
  • (be)Coming Home: Jean-Jacques Defert and the Effects of Technology on our Perception of Ourselves and Representation of Others (Dec 30, 2005)
  • Seeing Double: Carmen Norris on Dualism in Mexican Graffiti (Dec 30, 2005)
  • Stefan Little: Reconstructing the Past through Paleobotany (Dec 18, 2005)
  • Computing Science has gone to the (Robot) Dogs (Dec 18, 2005)
  • Where’s the beef? Check your paint can (Dec 14, 2005)
  • MRIs show differences in male, female brains (Dec 13, 2005)
  • ‘Exhaust’ing Opportunities for Undergraduate Student Research (Dec 13, 2005)
  • Shandi Connolly: Inspiration through Research (Dec 12, 2005)
  • Passion for light earns U of A student NSERC prize (Dec 7, 2005)
  • PhD candidate earns Aboriginal Music Awards (Dec 1, 2005)
  • Light Passion - U of A Grad Student the Top NSERC Doctoral Student for 2005 (Nov 30, 2005)
  • U of A hosts budding roboticists (Nov 29, 2005)
  • SARS: The Response of the Elderly Chinese Population in Edmonton (Nov 28, 2005)
  • Visual Media after 9/11: How to Read Between the Lines (Nov 28, 2005)
  • Drivers asked to hang up cellphones (Nov 24, 2005)
  • Young scientist is U of A’s newest Rhodes Scholar (Nov 23, 2005)
  • Partnership produces fastest supercomputer communication (Nov 23, 2005)
  • U of A researcher fuelling hydrogen technology (Nov 22, 2005)
  • Combating HIV/AIDS in Africa through Early Sex Education (Nov 21, 2005)
  • Rob Clements: Motivated to Integrate Research and Medical Practice (Nov 1, 2005)
  • Binge Eating: Risk Factors during the Transition to University (Nov 1, 2005)
  • U of A cowboy explores myth of modern agriculture (Oct 11, 2005)
  • Community service initiative puts theory into action (Sep 27, 2005)
  • Student thrilled by part-time forensics work (Sep 22, 2005)
  • Lecture series focuses on ‘North American experience’ (Sep 22, 2005)
  • Chemical engineering student claims C.D. Howe award (Sep 17, 2005)
  • Sewage-Pipe Junction, What’s Your Malfunction? (Sep 14, 2005)
  • Border Crossing: Reassessing the Foundations of Libertarianism (Sep 14, 2005)
  • Future teacher wins undergraduate award (Sep 12, 2005)
  • Outstanding students and teachers to be honoured (Sep 12, 2005)
  • Research-based play explores trauma survival (Sep 12, 2005)
  • Demers awarded University Cup (Sep 12, 2005)
  • Taste Testing: Henrique Fernandes and the WISEST Summer Research Program (Sep 8, 2005)
  • Bad Medicine? Kristy Marshall on Discovering Adulterants in Chinese Herbal Remedies (Sep 8, 2005)
  • Prof recruited to help build mansion (Sep 2, 2005)
  • Engineering students raise the roof (Sep 2, 2005)
  • Back-to-school film festival offers students five minutes of fame (Sep 2, 2005)
  • All that’s old is new again for human ecology grads (Sep 2, 2005)
  • Bottled water sales to ease world water woes (Aug 26, 2005)
  • Research road trip takes students to heart of Métis culture (Aug 22, 2005)
  • Zero-gravity researcher returns to Earth (Aug 18, 2005)
  • Some really are better with names than faces, study shows (Aug 17, 2005)
  • Student's research has X-Files flavour (Aug 16, 2005)
  • HYRS offers students hands-on research experience (Aug 15, 2005)
  • Wolf population critical to ecological balance, says study (Aug 10, 2005)
  • Student researcher explores religious history of the prairies (Aug 10, 2005)
  • Teaching and research unite at conference (Aug 8, 2005)
  • U of A hosts summit on teaching and research (Aug 2, 2005)
  • Wild chickadees go their own way, study finds (Jul 29, 2005)
  • Researcher keeps tabs on Alberta cougars (Jul 27, 2005)
  • Wolves threatening Little Smoky caribou population (Jul 26, 2005)
  • Researcher finds 'rural advantage' for people with disabilities (Jul 21, 2005)
  • Class project leads earns science writing award (Jul 19, 2005)
  • Passion breeds Excellence: Carmen Rasmussen Finding Real Solutions to Real Problems (Jul 13, 2005)
  • Local firm warms to student cooling project (Jul 13, 2005)
  • Wolves and Elk and Bears OH MY! Mark Hebblewhite on Wildlife Preservation in Canada’s Parks (Jul 11, 2005)
  • Michelle Smith: Promoting the Understanding of Canadian Identity Through Popular Culture (Jun 29, 2005)
  • Pumping Up Rats for the Good of Science (Jun 29, 2005)
  • Sociology PhD student earns $10,000 scholarship for immigration research (Jun 29, 2005)
  • Researchers find first evidence of venom system in extinct mammal (Jun 24, 2005)
  • Rural economy student harvests community attitudes (Jun 24, 2005)
  • Studying the Sweet Sounds and Social Realities of Music (Jun 24, 2005)
  • U of A student takes agriculture to faraway places (Jun 23, 2005)
  • Student filmmakers cross new frontier with $90,000 grant (Jun 21, 2005)
  • Beer, Vitamin B12 and Prions: U of A Postdoctoral Researcher Melissa Dobson (Jun 20, 2005)
  • Student selected to perform experiments in zero gravity (Jun 15, 2005)
  • Biology researcher goes where the wild things are (Jun 13, 2005)
  • Settler family’s journals a labour of love for doctoral student (Jun 13, 2005)
  • A Heifer in Your Tank fuels elementary students’ curiosity (Jun 7, 2005)
  • Education student wins best doctoral thesis (Jun 7, 2005)
  • Psychiatry doctoral student researches stigma of mental illness (May 30, 2005)
  • Grad student earns Young Scientist Footsteps Award (May 30, 2005)
  • Researcher cares for the land – one bite at a time (May 9, 2005)
  • Student journalist earns national, international recognition (May 9, 2005)
  • Opening Windows on the World: Dr. Helena Fracchia and the Field School in Ossaia, Italy (May 9, 2005)
  • Skiing the spine of the Canadian Rockies (May 6, 2005)
  • We are all more Human than otherwise: Understanding the Relation between Leisure, Crime, and Rehabilitation. (May 2, 2005)
  • Sometimes Closed Doors Up the Past… (May 1, 2005)
  • Recent PhD wins Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Apr 28, 2005)
  • Protein research at the U of A takes aim at producing new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (Apr 25, 2005)
  • Outstanding oncology student receives first Dr. Cyril Kay Award (Apr 22, 2005)
  • Laser Research Holds Promise for Prostate Cancer Treatment (Apr 19, 2005)
  • University neighbour explored in student exhibit (Apr 18, 2005)
  • Study shows city's poor have higher access to fast food (Apr 18, 2005)
  • Marketing course no snap (Apr 18, 2005)
  • PhD Program Combines Government Service and Sociology Research (Apr 12, 2005)
  • CIHR award funds breast cancer survivor fitness initiative (Apr 12, 2005)
  • Students discover Arctic trails (Apr 6, 2005)
  • MBA students win international business case competition (Apr 4, 2005)
  • Students challenge swamp in ultimate shop class (Apr 4, 2005)
  • What we need is more Heifers in our tanks! (Mar 31, 2005)
  • Images Burned onto the Brain (Mar 31, 2005)
  • Moral Rights and Intellectual Property: Law Research at the U of A (Mar 8, 2005)
  • On the Frontline of the Healthcare Debate (Mar 8, 2005)
  • Finger length predicts physically aggressive personalities, study shows (Mar 3, 2005)
  • Excellence in mentoring earns professor Killam Award (Feb 25, 2005)
  • U of A linguist puts words in video-game characters' mouths (Feb 25, 2005)
  • Choices event shows science is for girls too (Feb 24, 2005)
  • Stepping it up to a Healthier Lifestyle (Feb 16, 2005)
  • Spirit at Work in the Research of Val Kinjerski (Feb 16, 2005)
  • Student tech transfer team reaches top three (Feb 9, 2005)
  • Arts student wins $10,000 writing award (Feb 8, 2005)
  • The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? (Feb 7, 2005)
  • Education key to preventing child slavery (Feb 7, 2005)
  • Creating Community Through Devotional Song (Jan 31, 2005)
  • For joint PhD student, home is where the research is (Jan 28, 2005)
  • From the Lab to the Track to the Jam (Jan 25, 2005)
  • Undergraduates Benefit From Research (Jan 17, 2005)
  • Research by Design at the U of A (Jan 10, 2005)
  • Holiday break fraught with emotion for Sri Lankan student (Jan 6, 2005)
  • Health science students launch new journal (Jan 6, 2005)
  • MFA directing candidates take on dramatic challenges (Dec 13, 2004)
  • Superchip has Mega Potential (Dec 8, 2004)
  • Radio show profiles grad student research (Dec 6, 2004)
  • Piecing Together Paleobotanical Puzzles (Dec 3, 2004)
  • Report released on the Integration of Teaching and Research at the U of A (Dec 2, 2004)
  • Agriculture students dig up fascinating answers to real-life questions (Dec 1, 2004)
  • Sending Signals with Light and Music (Nov 30, 2004)
  • Edmonton inspires FAB exhibit (Nov 30, 2004)
  • Science answers to 23 questions you didn’t know you had about agriculture (Nov 18, 2004)
  • Killam recipients putting scholarship funds to work (Oct 21, 2004)
  • Week focuses on integrating teaching and research (Oct 19, 2004)
  • Master's thesis formed basis for family memoir (Oct 18, 2004)
  • Busy engineering student forecasts fog on Mars (Sep 14, 2004)
  • Annual celebration recognizes outstanding students and professors (Sep 10, 2004)
  • Computer models expose humans as culprits in caribou decline (Sep 2, 2004)
  • Tiny diamonds precious for U of A research (Sep 1, 2004)
  • Shrimp, anyone? Biologist discovers two new species (Aug 23, 2004)
  • Student saves Eritrean culture online (Aug 10, 2004)
  • Robot soccer team comes rolling home (Aug 10, 2004)
  • Graduate students awarded funds to strengthen their Alberta ingenuity (Jul 26, 2004)
  • U of A Researcher Takes Aim at Raptor Electrocutions (Jul 12, 2004)
  • Creating Safe School Environments (Jul 12, 2004)
  • Haiku in Papiamentu: U of A PhD Candidate Translates Dutch Antilles Creole (Apr 20, 2004)
  • Design student wins international competition (Apr 20, 2004)
  • Researchers follow their electronic nose (Apr 15, 2004)
  • Research Profile Project Database up and running (Mar 31, 2004)
  • Grad Students Win International Award for Exhibition Catalogue (Mar 23, 2004)
  • When Panic Stops You Cold (Mar 19, 2004)
  • Student masters fire and ice (Oct 20, 2003)
  • How can research enhance teaching? (Oct 10, 2003)
  • $1.6 million announced for U of A arts students (Sep 30, 2003)
  • Senate honours volunteers (Sep 17, 2003)
  • Workshop connects research and teaching (Sep 17, 2003)
  • Finding your place: grad students talk about conferences (Sep 8, 2003)
  • Grad student stacks up scholarships (Sep 8, 2003)
  • Graduate Students Recognized for their Success at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning (Sep 8, 2003)
  • Grad students win international rural economy competition (Aug 28, 2003)
  • Basic research leads to basic improvements (Aug 28, 2003)
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