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Arts fast facts

320

full-time faculty

8000+

undergraduate and graduate students
Registered in Fall 2024

20

Research chairs

15

Academic departments, schools and centres

Featured news

Dr. Perri Tutelman awarded a Canadian Cancer Society Emerging Scholar Research Grant

Increased funding will help young people with cancer express their wishes for future care

Spotlight on Bonnie Walter, Academic Programs Specialist

Steve McCardy, Associate Vice-President (People and Culture), recently had the pleasure of meeting with long-serving team member Bonnie Walter from the Department of Political Science.

Arts researchers included in NSERC funding announcement

Five projects from the departments of Psychology and Anthropology and Archaeology share over $1M in federal grants

New initiative to expand interprovincial electricity transmission across Western Canada

Minister Tim Hodgson announces $4.2 million in funding for project aimed at taking interconnected grids from “ambition to action”

Four distinguished members of UCalgary community appointed to Order of Canada

A groundbreaking medical researcher, a dance community icon, an artist, mentor and teacher, and a world-renowned scientist all named to Canada's highest order.

Featured events


Researcher Brian Kooyman behind a collection of bones

Energizing Research

Arts researchers are collaborators, bold innovators and creative practitioners.

Students study together

Preparing students

Arts students enjoy active inquiry, creative-based learning, and early research opportunities

People read reports in a boardroom

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Together, we will create and share vital knowledge.

Taking the stairs in the Social Sciences building? Read up on the tale of Leon the Frog