Reading Time: 4 minutes Kevin Zentner turned his academic career around by getting involved, working with the less fortunate
Category: Education
Global conflict never far away: Iranian student
Reading Time: 5 minutes New U of A graduate Asal Andarzipour found herself in a leadership role in the wake of the Flight 752 disaster
Can parent-teachers adequately educate their children?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Greater accountability in teaching and learning could be a very positive outcome from this enforced homeschooling
‘My whole life got turned upside down’
Reading Time: 4 minutes How one University of Alberta student persevered after losing brother in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash
Let’s be realistic about physical distancing in schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s absurd to think that physical distancing in schools will look like it does in grocery stores
Learning in the post-pandemic world
Reading Time: 4 minutes Regardless of how COVID-19 plays out, post-secondary institutions won’t go back to full-frontal classroom instruction
Game helps people overcome fear of spiders
Reading Time: 4 minutes U of A grad student designs augmented reality game that lets users see and touch virtual spiders that get more realistic as they level up
Be brave enough to fulfil your potential
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we have an awareness of our inherent greatness, we really don’t mind looking foolish. From there, all it takes is time and hard work
We can’t obliterate history, no matter how hard we try
Reading Time: 3 minutes If historical figures with 2020 attitudes could be found, renaming familiar streets and place names wouldn’t be so daunting
Chernobyl disaster’s legacy still resonates
Reading Time: 5 minutes New interest in Chernobyl as the result of an HBO miniseries prompts U of A historian to reflect on 1986 nuclear disaster