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Research explores the experience of Black immigrant and refugee families living with neurodevelopmental conditions

With an Azrieli Accelerator Catalyst Grant, Roz Zulla leads a transdisciplinary team studying the unique challenges in accessing supports and services

With no 'how to' guide, Schulich students build their own historic Gutenberg-style printing press

Historically accurate printing press now in use at the Book Arts Lab

New Order of Canada appointees have UCalgary ties

Three individuals with connections to the University of Calgary have received one of the country’s highest civilian honours

2025 Indigenous Curriculum Grant recipients announced

Pipe ceremony launches third cohort of projects while reflecting on learnings from those recently completed

In Memoriam: Tareq Y. Ismael, Faculty of Arts

Campus flag at Rozsa Centre lowered on June 20

In the media

In the News Trevor Tombe, Economics, in Toronto Sun

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s retaliatory tariffs having little impact on U.S.

In the News Kent Fellows, Economics, in The New York Times

Canada Shipping Natural Gas to Asia as It Looks Beyond the US for Trade

In the News Robert Huebert, Political Science, in The Guardian

Canada races to build icebreakers amid melting ice and geopolitical tensions

In the News Trevor Tombe, Economics, in The Tyee

Opinion: Why Join Danielle Smith’s ‘Alberta Next’ Road Show?

In the News Julia Chan, Communication, Media and Film, in Live Wire Calgary

Academic artists turn spy gear into tools for joyful resistance


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