Tag: Technology & Science

  • Firebrand Glass: Art for Science

    Firebrand Glass: Art for Science

    We hope that you are all enjoying this beautiful spring weather and we wanted to share some exciting news. In February we were selected by the Royal Tyrell Museum to create models of prehistoric spores for a new exhibition. We love doing commission work and this project was a great experience, we were able to…

  • The Flowers Miss the Bees

    The Flowers Miss the Bees

    University of Alberta By Sarah Pratt, U of A We can thank bees for one of every three bites of food we eat. Bees pollinate crops that range from blueberries and cherries to almonds, squash and coffee beans. Bees also help ecosystems thrive by encouraging a diversity of plants, keeping water and soil healthy, and…

  • City of Calgary Launches New Way to License your Pets

    City of Calgary Launches New Way to License your Pets

    Beginning today pet owners can now use The City of Calgary’s new online Animal Services site pets.calgary.ca to license their pets. This new site is easier to use both the first time and for future licence renewals or if changes are needed to your current pet licence. “A pet’s licence is their ticket home if they…

  • Deceptive Feathered Dinosaur Finally Gets a Name

    Deceptive Feathered Dinosaur Finally Gets a Name

    Apatoraptor pennatus eluded paleontologists for decades. By Jennifer Pascoe Solving one of the longest cases of mistaken identity, University of Alberta PhD candidate Greg Funston recently described a new genus and species of toothless dinosaur from Alberta. Long thought to be a more common ornithomimid, Apatoraptor pennatus instead turned out to be a member of the…

  • University of Calgary opens the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning

    University of Calgary opens the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning

    Innovative teaching and learning institute made possible by $40-million gift from the Taylor Family Foundation April 19, 2016 President Elizabeth Cannon along with the Taylor family, Marlin Schmidt, minister of Advanced Education, partners and members of the campus community unveiled a state-of-the-art teaching and learning “incubator” as the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning officially…

  • Register to be an Organ and Tissue Donor

    Register to be an Organ and Tissue Donor

    Join the 230,000 Albertans already registered as organ and tissue donors during National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. April 17 – 23 is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week in Canada. With more than 600 Albertans waiting for an organ transplant, and many more waiting for tissues, increasing the number of Albertans registered…

  • Softchoice study finds employees exhibit risky cloud behavior, despite new level of cloud sophistication

    Softchoice study finds employees exhibit risky cloud behavior, despite new level of cloud sophistication

    TORONTO, April 2016 /CNW/ – Enterprise cloud adoption has matured in recent years, but employees using cloud apps continue to display reckless technology habits that put their employers at risk, according to a new study by Softchoice, a leading North American IT solutions and managed services provider. The study, (Still) Careless Users in the Cloud,…

  • New Simulator an Eye-opening Experience for Residents

    New Simulator an Eye-opening Experience for Residents

    Technology helps to train the next generation of ophthalmologists CALGARY – An eye surgery simulator is allowing local ophthalmology residents to practise performing life-changing eye procedures and prepare them for real-life scenarios. Eyesi is a state-of-the-art virtual reality device that simulates a variety of eye surgery scenarios, including cataract, intraocular and retinal surgeries. It is…

  • Vehicle Registration Auto-Renew Does the Remembering for You

    Vehicle Registration Auto-Renew Does the Remembering for You

    By Chris Rechner, AMA When it comes to something as predictable as your annual vehicle registration renewal, there’s no reason to have to remember what month your registration expires because we can now take care of the remembering and automatically process it for you. With Vehicle Registration Auto-Renew AMA members can now sign up once through…

  • The Gateway U of A’s Campus Newspaper to Morph to Online Delivery and Monthly Features Magazine

    The Gateway U of A’s Campus Newspaper to Morph to Online Delivery and Monthly Features Magazine

    After 106 years as a campus newspaper, The Gateway is gearing towards a new model, which will prioritize digital and online content. The Gateway plans to cease the printing of their weekly student newspaper as of the April 6 issue in order to focus on online production and publish a print monthly features magazine. The content and stories that…

  • CRTC Reports on Canada’s Broadband Speeds

    CRTC Reports on Canada’s Broadband Speeds

    Majority of broadband services sold in Canada are as fast or faster than their advertised download speeds Ottawa-Gatineau – According to the results of the first national, independent broadband performance study, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today revealed that the majority of broadband Internet services sold in Canada meet or exceed their advertised download…

  • Hummingbirds’ Extraordinary Migratory Marathons

    Hummingbirds’ Extraordinary Migratory Marathons

    With fat deposits that almost double their weight, the tiny ruby-throated hummingbird can fly non-stop for more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) during migration. How far can a ruby-throated hummingbird fly without taking a break? Some 1,243 miles (2,000 km), according to scientists at the University of Southern Mississippi. This finding was among several from…

  • Biofuels Startup gets $4.2M Investment

    Biofuels Startup gets $4.2M Investment

    Federal grant kickstarts production plant for converting animal fat and grease into fuel. By Helen Metella Twelve years after bioresource scientist David Bressler started converting animal fats and cooking grease into fuel, he is on his way to marketing his innovative product, thanks to a $4.2-million grant from the federal government to help build a…

  • Chameleon in Amber is World’s Oldest

    Chameleon in Amber is World’s Oldest

    About 100 million years ago, a baby chameleon crawled into some sticky resin. Over time, the resin fossilized into amber, leaving the lizard remarkably preserved. Photo credit: David Grimaldi/Florida Museum of Natural History Ninety-nine million years ago, a baby chameleon was creeping through the ancient tropics of present-day Myanmar when it got trapped in the…

  • Edmonton’s Royal Alex: the Difference Between Care and Caring

    Edmonton’s Royal Alex: the Difference Between Care and Caring

    A weekend of big wins for Royal Alexandra Hospital video The Difference Between Care and Caring claims top honours at Edmonton’s ACE Awards and tops it off with DoGooder Video Award for Best NonProfit Video. The Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) was honoured at the Advertising Club of Edmonton’s ACE Awards for its video The Difference Between…