UCalgary Alumni Magazine - Fall 2011

Discovery Series: Contemporary Canada

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Fall 2011

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Dance Montage 2011

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The Eric apparent

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The lead-up to last year’s Dinos football season had a pre-determined feel to it. Posters for Canada’s top-ranked university football team popped up across campus even before the season started, listing the game schedule all the way to the national championship Vanier Cup like it was all but inevitable.

Explore your university at Open House

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Pioneers in the field

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Dennis Klugkist watched as the veterinarian stood before the horse in the stall, looking straight into the animal’s eyes while moving his hand—equipped with a syringe—halfway down the horse’s long neck to inject the needle.

“I thought it was a bit odd,” says Klugkist, a student in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. “I saw him do it a few times, and finally I got the courage to ask: ‘What are you doing? It looks like you’re staring down the horse.’ ”

Waste not

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Every now and then you gain a new piece of knowledge that makes you realize perhaps you’ve been a bit wasteful when it comes to a potentially valuable resource. Basically you’ve just been flushing it down the toilet.

At the Schulich School of Engineering, chemical engineers Ian Gates, BSc’89, and Michael Kallos, BSc’95, PhD’99, are exploring the possibilities of developing a sustainable energy source with one particular substance and addressing a global health problem at the same time.

Symposium: The GST at 20

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2011 Canada Gairdner Lectures

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Peter Craigie Memorial Lecture

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