By Courtney Ho
The non-profit Ruweng Association for Reconstruction and Orphan Support is working to build a sustainable and environmental school in Southern Sudan. RAROS, also known as A Village Future, hopes the Biemnom Education Centre will provide education, health care and economic improvement in the area. RAROS project director and president Dawn Ambler said the goals of… Continue reading Group hopes to create new future for Sudanese
A new team of toxic crusaders is on the job at the University of Calgary. The U of C’s new Institute of Environmental Toxicology aims to clean up chemicals and other toxins that can harm the environment. “The IET is a multi-disciplinary institute based in the faculty of science,” said U of C professor and… Continue reading Toxicology still not as popular as mixology
By Amy Badry
Students in the faculty of science will soon have a new academic club to join. The Science Students Society, or S^3, will “aim to unite the faculty of science,” said second-year biology student and S^3 president Anthony Hu. “Right now, we are really split up with our different departments,” said Hu. “The point of the… Continue reading New science faculty club planned
By Kaye Coholan
A University of Calgary research team has found evidence of what caused the world’s biggest extinction 250 million years ago which set the stage for dinosaurs to evolve. Stephen Grasby, adjunct professor of geoscience at the U of C, said his team focused on the causes of the Permean extinction, the largest extinction in the… Continue reading Research team finds extinction evidence
Support staff at the University of Calgary, who are members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, voted in favour of a tentative contract Jan. 26. Sixty-four per cent voted in favour of the proposed collective agreement. “We were steady all day, I think it was about average for the responses that we do get,”… Continue reading Support staff union and school reach agreement
Finding out how to transition successfully into adulthood can be tough, that’s why one University of Calgary researcher is trying to help make it easier. Assistant professor Andrew Estefan is looking for a few more students to study the support systems queer youth need to transition into adulthood. Estefan recently completed a study that looked… Continue reading Research hopes to help queer youth
By Amy Badry
The University of Calgary is reaching out to Aboriginals in Canada in order to encourage more students to apply for medical school. Medical students from University of Calgary and University of Alberta met with provincial Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Len Webber on Nov. 29 to raise awareness about the need for more Aboriginal students in… Continue reading U of C wants more Aboriginal students
The University of Calgary campus was shocked last week by reports of a student death while in line for the popular weekly ‘ThursDen.’ Eighteen-year-old student Ian Porter was with several friends in the extraordinarily long lineup, which stretched from the main door of the U of C campus pub, the Den, to the university bookstore… Continue reading ThursDen line claims another young life
Hello dear children of the first dimension, I once again join you from the humble house of DeBoir. I once again risk my mind, my very soul, gazing deep, deep into your futures. Some have written to ask, ‘Madam DeBoir, why, WHY?’ My response is simple; my curse is the world’s gift. I must pull… Continue reading Gauntlet Psychic Predictions — February
Last month, the Mara 18 gang set a Guatemalan bus on fire, killing nine people and injuring a dozen more. Only the latest attack in ongoing gang violence, the arson was an extortion attempt on the company that owns the bus. This year, many similar attacks have happened in Central America where gang violence, largely… Continue reading A growing vice