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Faculty of Arts

Our mission is to reflect on the world and our place in it through critical inquiry, creative practices and collaborative exploration.

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Faculty of Arts Awards and Celebration of Excellence

Faculty of Arts Awards recognize faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and alumni whose work advances research, creativity and community impact across disciplines.

April 28, 2026 | 2 – 4:30 p.m.

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Shaping the future of Canada’s Army

The 2026 Canadian Landpower Conference brings top military leadership to UCalgary for critical discussions on security and readiness

UCalgary Economics department launches new regulatory and competition policy research program

This program will be the first in a Canadian university to focus on the practice and policy of regulation and competition enforcement

Study finds housing insecurity prevalent among older Albertan adults

Home ownership no longer an indicator of financial security, says study lead

Transdisciplinary Connector Grants Awarded

Faculty of Arts plays central leadership and collaboration roles across the UCalgary campus

UCalgary expedition, with NASA, Canadian and European space agencies, sets out to better understand state of Arctic ice

The project will help provide improved methods to measure ice thickness and help out local Northern communities

Malinda S. Smith: The pluralism dividend — the hope and promise of this moment

"Calgary has met growth with ambition before, and there is an urgency to that tradition holding now"

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Early apes may not have evolved in East Africa

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Canada’s political food fight is about to get even messier

In the News Blake Shaffer, Economics, in the Vancouver Sun

First Nations agency seeks role in beefing up interprovincial electricity grid

In the News Kibeom Lee, Psychology, in Everyday Health

Does Birth Order Really Affect Your Personality?

In the News Rob Huebert, Robert Huebert, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, on Pulse

Canada Launches New Arctic Strategy That Looks A Lot Like the Old One

In the News Trevor Tombe, Economics, in the Calgary Sun

EDITORIAL: Carney’s hocus-pocus on the deficit


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Creative and Performing Arts (School of)

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