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New scholarship encourages law students to champion racial justice

Reading Time: 3 minutes Scotiabank launches nationwide scholarship supporting future lawyers tackling systemic discrimination and creating change

New way identified to track severity and progression of ALS

Reading Time: 4 minutes By identifying biomarkers for white-matter degeneration, researchers hope to move toward earlier diagnosis and effective treatments

Losing weight before knee surgery of little benefit

In a new study, U of A researchers found no evidence that losing weight before undergoing knee surgery is beneficial for patients with osteoarthritis. The research suggests BMI may not be a good indicator of how patients will fare after surgery. (Photo: Obesity Canada, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Researchers find no evidence that BMI is a good determinant of surgical outcomes for osteoarthritis

New accelerator launched to commercialize innovations

Reading Time: 3 minutes New industry-led accelerator will address the earliest barriers faced by researchers just starting on the path to commercialization

Virtual clinic pilot sees success in rural Alberta community

The MedROAD project, developed by U of A computing scientist Pierre Boulanger, is connecting more than 30 patients with physicians in a virtual clinic being piloted in the town of Pincher Creek. Boulanger says the project could help increase access to health care for Albertans living in remote communities. (Photo: John Ulan)

Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A spinoff company launches MedROAD virtual clinic in Alberta, making long-distance health care a reality during COVID-19

How student athletes stay mentally healthy

Lack of competition changed the way ultramarathoner Sara Szabo approached her sport this year, transitioning from competing against others to competing against herself (Photo Lauren Andrews)

Reading Time: 3 minutes So that they can switch it into a maintenance mode when the games start to count

New research provides insight into evolutionary origin of the eye

An adult hagfish in a container filled with sea water. New U of A research reveals unexpected similarities between the eyes of hagfish and those of other vertebrates including humans, shedding new light on how our vision evolved. (Photo: Ryan Wayne)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hagfish eyes uncover unexpected similarities to those of other vertebrates, including humans

Newly discovered fossil named after U of A paleontologist

U of A professor Murray Gingras, pictured at a first-year field school for geology students in 2019, has had a newly discovered 90-million-year-old fossil of an ancient insect burrow named after him by former graduate student Ryan King. (Photo: John Ulan)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Former grad student discovers new trace fossil and names it in honour of former supervisor Murray Gingras

Machine learning used to predict early symptoms of schizophrenia

Reading Time: 3 minutes Researchers develop AI tool to analyze brain scans, identify risk for earlier diagnosis and treatment

Scientists unearth first baby tyrannosaur fossils ever found

The fossilized lower jawbone of a Daspletosaurus horneri, one of the first baby tyrannosaurs ever discovered. Estimates based on this 75-million-year-old fossil suggest the dinosaur embryo measured about 71 centimetres long. (Photo: Greg Funston)

Reading Time: 3 minutes University of Alberta PhD student part of research that sheds new light on how the dinosaurs grew from tiny to titanic size

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