Tag: Education

  • City to Replace School Zones with Playground Zones

    City to Replace School Zones with Playground Zones

      Starting this week, The City of Calgary will be making all school zones into playground zones to help increase safety for children as they head back to school. “By getting rid of school zones and setting straight forward and consistent playground zone hours, we will enhance safety for both pedestrians and motorists,” says Ravi…

  • Provincial Grant supports Environmental Research on Nature’s Doorstep

    Provincial Grant supports Environmental Research on Nature’s Doorstep

    The University of Alberta (U of A) Augustana Campus and Alberta Parks have established an environmental research facility at Miquelon Lake. The Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station is housed within the provincial park and will serve as an important resource to study human and wildlife impacts on the natural environment. “Our parks are amazing living…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Back to School Lunches

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Back to School Lunches

    It’s time to start thinking about it again – packing school lunches. Healthy school lunches and snacks give children and youth energy and the nutrition they need for proper growth, development and success in the classroom. Without healthy food, children may feel tired, have difficulty concentrating and may not have the energy they need to…

  • Two-year-olds with Larger Oral Vocabularies enter Kindergarten Better Prepared

    Two-year-olds with Larger Oral Vocabularies enter Kindergarten Better Prepared

    Society for Research in Child Development Children with better academic and behavioral functioning when they start kindergarten often have better educational and societal opportunities as they grow up. For instance, children entering kindergarten with higher reading and math achievement are more likely to go to college, own homes, be married, and live in higher-income neighborhoods…

  • Researcher Creates Preterm Growth Charts that are Used Globally

    Researcher Creates Preterm Growth Charts that are Used Globally

    Two new apps give clinicians and parents an easy way to monitor the health of premature babies By Laura Herperger When you weigh less than five pounds, as preterm infants do, every growth spurt counts. So knowing what normal growth (weight, length, and head circumference) is for a preterm infant is really important. Tanis Fenton…

  • Charity Offers iPads to Give Children a Voice

    Charity Offers iPads to Give Children a Voice

      For children with speech or motor skill impairments, an iPad provides more than a way to play games or watch movies. With specialized apps that help non-verbal children learn to communicate, iPads can give kids without voices the opportunity to be heard. Take Waverley Leduc for example, an 11-year-old girl living with Rett syndrome.…

  • Hug A Tree (or Rock, Fence-post, Shrub) And Survive!

    Hug A Tree (or Rock, Fence-post, Shrub) And Survive!

    DATE: August 30th 2015 TIME:  1:00 PM PRICE: FREE – Donations are encouraged REGISTRATION:  Click HERE to register LOCATION: Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park – Below Yodel Loop NOTE: PREREGISTRATION RECOMMENDED. Bring your whole family out to Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park and learn what to do when kids get lost outside. Through a live play and other activities, learn how they can…

  • Dammit, Jim!

    Dammit, Jim!

    Dr. McCoy isn’t the only one with a tricorder By Karen Sherlock Star Trek fans, get ready for sci-fi to collide with reality. Three UAlberta alumni are part of a team that has created a real-life “tricorder” to track the body’s vital signs and diagnose 16 medical conditions. The team is vying for $10 million…

  • Alberta Students Make Good Showing in Apps Contest

    Alberta Students Make Good Showing in Apps Contest

    Two of four awards in the Apps for Alberta contest were won by Alberta students and all of the awards were taken home by Albertans. The Apps for Alberta contest enticed 29 qualified entrants from Canada and the United States to find creative ways to transform Alberta’s open data into applications that provide social and…

  • The Jakarta Post Reports an Indonesian Court has Overturned the Conviction of Canadian Teacher Neil Bantleman and his Teaching Aid Ferdinant Tjiong

    The Jakarta Post Reports an Indonesian Court has Overturned the Conviction of Canadian Teacher Neil Bantleman and his Teaching Aid Ferdinant Tjiong

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  • World-Class Research Centre Launched with $9.9-million Federal Grant

    World-Class Research Centre Launched with $9.9-million Federal Grant

    Western Canadian Microbiome Centre slated for 2017 at Cumming School of Medicine By Doug Ferguson A new, world-class centre for microbiome research — the study of micro-organisms in the human body and all around us — will be launched at the University of Calgary, helping to drive discoveries in fields such as disease and obesity…

  • University Receives $39.1 Million for Health Research

    University Receives $39.1 Million for Health Research

    Pediatric stroke project at Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute gets a boost from federal announcement July 28, 2015 Research dedicated to better health for Canadians is getting a $39.1-million boost at the University of Calgary through the Government of Canada’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). A total of $25.8 million will be awarded as…

  • Canada 150 Funds for University of Lethbridge Coutts Centre Near Nanton

    Canada 150 Funds for University of Lethbridge Coutts Centre Near Nanton

      Nanton, Alberta – (Friday), John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, on behalf of the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced support of $83,185 to enable the University of Lethbridge to renovate the Coutts Centre for Western Canadian Heritage under the Government of Canada’s Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program.…

  • Outstanding Students Awarded Queen’s Jubilee Medal

    Outstanding Students Awarded Queen’s Jubilee Medal

    Dedicated young Albertans received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal in a special ceremony on Friday, July 31. Her Honour, the Honourable Lois Mitchell, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, presented the 2014 Queen’s Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal to the students. The medal, which recognizes recipients’ volunteerism and leadership in their communities and schools, was…

  • Rothney Astrophysical Observatory Opens its Doors to Stargazers to Participate in the Milky Way Nights

    Rothney Astrophysical Observatory Opens its Doors to Stargazers to Participate in the Milky Way Nights

      You are invited to join our researchers to observe the dark night sky and gaze at the Milky Way for three evenings in August. On August 13, 14 and 15th, the dark sky conditions are perfect for viewing planetary nebula, globular clusters and distant galaxies. Saturn is the planet most visible in July and…