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The Keys to Life
Why Randy Marsden is the most important inventor you've never heard of
New Horizons in Health Care
Meet the people working to make sure your family lives longer — and better
Building a Better Undergrad
How students are going beyond the books to reshape what it means to get a university education
Time to Contribute
Glenn Stowkowy sets his sights on building up the Alumni Association

Feature Stories

Perfecting His Bedside Manner
Erik Saude, ’00 BSc, ’07 PhD, was a research all-star even before he earned his PhD. Now he’s coming out from the lab and putting his work to good use in Calgary hospitals.
A Leg Up for Smallest Stroke Victims
A preliminary study suggests toddlers who suffered strokes as babies can learn to walk normally by reshaping their brain circuitry through intensive physio.
Cooking Up a Culture of Understanding
Pull up a place at the dinner table in I-House, where diversity is always on the menu. It’s a mini United Nations on campus where nearly 50 different cultures live together — and learn from one another.
The Making of a Storyteller
These days in Edmonton, like a gopher in a prairie field, the novelist and entrepreneur Todd Babiak, '95 BA, is popping up everywhere
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How to Fake a British Accent
Drama professor David Ley recently became an Internet sensation for his use of a vibrator to improve vocal range for singers and actors.
U of A Alumni Volunteer Challenge
Help us complete 2,015 alumni volunteer experiences by the Alumni Association's 100th birthday in 2015.
Ice Bullets and Killer Pennies
Can a penny dropped from the top of a building turn into a ruthless killing machine? Find out from the professors of "Mythbusting 101."
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Caylie Gnyra '10 has put together her first e-book.
Heather Zwicker ’88 Heather Zwicker, BA, was honoured by the 3M Company with a 2013 National Teaching Fellow award.
Jay Van Bavel ’02 received the 2012 Early Career Award for distinguished contributions to social neuroscience by the Society for Social Neuroscience.
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Barclay Spady ’97 BEd, is one of three Canadian coaches to join the coaching staff that will lead the International Federation of American Football’s World Development Team as part of the U.S. Football International Bowl on February 1 in Austin, TX.
Alumni Honoured at International Film Festival Co-producers and directors of the feature-length documentary Lost Years, Kenda Gee, '82 BA, and Tom Radford, ’66 BA, won in the Best Documentary on History and Culture category at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in December.
Alumni Named to the Order of Canada Three alumni were appointed as Members of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2011. They will receive their insignia at a ceremony at Rideau Hall at a later date.
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