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60 years of UCalgary
UCalgary has launched a 60-week storytelling campaign marking the university’s 60th anniversary in 2026. Community members are invited to submit story ideas through the intake form.
Latest news
2025 Vanier Scholars advance community-driven health and land equity research at UCalgary
From improving access to cervical cancer screening to advancing gender- and youth-focused land justice in the Amazon, two PhD researchers are shaping policy, practice and lived experience
Writing for Wellness: Finding Steadiness on the Page
Storyteller, poet and alum Miranda Krogstad reflects on writing, mentorship and mental well-being, and how returning to the page can help when life feels heavy.
UCalgary's most-read research news of 2025
In a year that saw the University of Calgary officially become a Top 5 research university, readers of UCalgary News learned about early humans adapting to extreme climates more than a million years ago, the cause of a mysterious white patch appearing next to northern lights, the subtle effects of the sounds found in a modern-day health-care clinic, and more
Alex Bierman interviewed on CTV News, Global News, and Calgary Herald about holiday stress and the ‘buy now, pay later’ system
Experts warn against using ‘buy now, play later’ programs
Investment from Environmental Damages Fund sets stage for bull trout’s comeback
Scientists, Indigenous communities to safeguard Alberta’s provincial fish from uncertain future
A decade of discovery in neurodevelopment and children’s mental health
Celebrating 10 years of UCalgary's Owerko Centre
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In the media
In the News Lisa Young, Political Science, on CBC The Homestretch
Lisa Young on Alberta politics
In the News Sheri Madigan, Psychology, in the Calgary Herald
Online time for youth increasingly seen as problem, requires wider attention, says U of C researcher
In the News Rob Huebert, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, in the Victoria Times Colonist
Security experts sound alarm for Canada as Trump threatens to take Greenland
In the News Barry Cooper, Political Science, on City News
What’s at stake if Alberta separates from Canada?
In the News Trevor Tombe, Economics, in the Calgary Herald
Varcoe: Despite short-term rally in oil price amid geopolitical risks, forecast dims for 2026
In the News Alex Bierman (Sociology) and Melanee Thomas (Political Science) in CBC News
Tapping out: Why Calgarians might not be cutting water use during latest crisis
Anthropology and Archaeology
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Art and Art History
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Classics and Religion
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Communication, Media and Film
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Creative and Performing Arts (School of)
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Economics
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English
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Geography
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History
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Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures (School of)
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Philosophy
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Political Science
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Psychology
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Sociology
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