Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A scientist’s cost-effective technique for extracting beta glucan from grains attracts interest from food companies looking to make their products healthier
Author: Geoff McMaster
Why some women fought back against Boko Haram atrocities
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Islamist group has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 2.3 million people since 2009
Indigenous communities leaping the digital divide
Reading Time: 4 minutes Indigenous communities are setting up their own satellite, fibre optics and even cellular phone networks
#ScienceUpFirst turning the tide on COVID-19 misinformation online
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield teams up with other evidence-informed influencers for social media campaign
Preserving the history of Alberta’s Black heritage
Reading Time: 4 minutes Great-granddaughter of an early settler, Debbie Beaver is preserving a vital part of a province’s history for all to know
Global vaccine certification would help world bounce back from COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes U of A professor Andy Knight is leading international development of a standard vaccination protocol to spur recovery worldwide
Sonic lab will help researchers shape the sound of things to come
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sound3 Lab will support innovative research on designing soundscapes for everything from music therapy in hospitals to community building and computer gaming
A user’s guide to coping in an age of anxiety
Reading Time: 4 minutes Health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield takes readers through an average day to show how evidence can allay our fears and inform our decisions
Our close bond with dogs has a long history, study shows
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dogs were certainly useful but ‘people clearly had emotional attachments to their dogs from the very beginning’
Atwood’s childhood works reveals early glimmers of creativity
Reading Time: 5 minutes Compilation of juvenilia hints at the famed author’s first influences – and a characteristic sense of humour, say U of A experts