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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

Landmark research could lead to better understanding of diseases

Michael Hendzel (right) co-led a study that revealed the gel-like nature of chromatin, the complex package of DNA and proteins contained within the nucleus of our cells. The researchers say the discovery could lead to better understanding of diseases like cancer. (Photo: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry; taken pre-COVID-19)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Researchers have found an answer to a fundamental question that has eluded scientists since the discovery of DNA

Remembering the lives lost on Flight PS752

Reading Time: 8 minutes On the anniversary of the tragedy, the University of Alberta remembers the colleagues and friends who were lost

Website provides resources, support for LGBTQ2+ cancer patients

U of A educator Amanda Bolderston (centre), Evan Taylor from the University of Fraser Valley (right), and Meghan McInnis from Queen's University launched the Queering Cancer website to help close an information gap in resources and services tailored to LGBTQ2+ people. (Photo: Supplied)

Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A faculty educator and two collaborators saw a need and worked to create a supportive space

Our close bond with dogs has a long history, study shows

Photo by Hanny Naibaho

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

Margaret Atwood with her father, entomologist Carl Atwood, in 1942 (Photo courtesy of Juvenilia Press)

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

Building quality of life into spaces for people with ‘invisible’ disabilities

Lara Pinchbeck (left) conducts an art workshop with older adults in congregate living facilities as part of a project to document their experiences of aging. As a doctoral student and consultant, Pinchbeck aims to improve understanding of universal design principles that can lead to better quality of life for people with disabilities. (Photo: Supplied; taken before COVID-19)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ensuring physical accessibility is only the beginning of creating places where people can ‘be who they are,’ says design consultant and PhD student Lara Pinchbeck

Science shatters misconceptions about Indigenous peoples

Reading Time: 4 minutes Archeologist believes unearthing evidence is the best way to change public perceptions – and public policy

Graduation opens new chapter for Cree poet and Rhodes scholar

Billy-Ray Belcourt graduates this week with a PhD from the Department of English and Film Studies that he completed in just three years. (Photo: Tenille Campbell)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Billy-Ray Belcourt earns PhD from U of A while winning acclaim for his accounts of life as a gay Indigenous person in Western Canada