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Arts fast facts

551

full-time faculty

8,331

undergraduate and graduate students
Registered in Fall 2024

20

Research chairs

15

Academic departments, schools and centres

Featured news

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

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

Calgary Institute for the Humanities marks 50 years of asking ‘why’

Founded a decade apart, UCalgary and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities have grown together as a home for inquiry, dialogue and big questions

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

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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