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Faculty of Arts students among 2024 Indigenous Graduate Award recipients

Faculty of Arts graduate students are among the recipients of the 2024 Indigenous Graduate Award Competition, which provides funding support across UCalgary.

Indigenous Graduate Award spotlights student excellence at UCalgary

With record applications and more than $940,000 in funding, the annual competition is now open

In Memoriam: Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, Faculty of Arts

Faculty member in Classics and Religion; campus flag lowered Oct 1.

Who's who of Canadian sea power at UCalgary this week

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies hosts conference on Canadian maritime security

In Memoriam: Anthony W. Rasporich, Faculty of Arts

Former Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Professor Emeritus; campus flag was lowered on Aug 19.

Arts and Science collide in UCalgary seminar series

Student will show links between physics and philosophy

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In the News Atsuko Tanaka, Economics, in Canadian Journal of Economics

Healthcare utilization and labour market responses to health shocks

In the News Aidan Hollis, Economics, in Context

Can a new fund give tropical forests a future?

In the News Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer, Anthropology and Archaeology, in Calgary Herald

From biology to archeology: Lynden Turning Robe focuses his future to history of Blackfoot people

In the News Robert Huebert, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, in CBC Lite

As China explores the Arctic, Canada's military is preparing for confrontation


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