UCalgary Alumni Magazine - Spring Summer 2017

Qapla’! Speaking Star Trek

tmagee — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:17:43 +0000

When he was a kid, Joseph Windsor, MA’12, fell in love with the Klingon language. Since then, not only has he gone on to become an expert speaker of it, he’s built his academic career around linguistics.

Hay Revolution

tmagee — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:33:47 +0000

Flash back to August 2015.

In 50 Years, Where Will We Be?

alumni — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 01:54:53 +0000

A recent study out of California looked at the potential influence of artificial intelligence on the typical North American city 20 years from now. How, researchers asked, will A.I.

What Might the Future Hold For Education?

alumni — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:56:48 +0000

The Macro View: University Education at Large

Technology will be at the heart of a major disruption in teaching and learning at the university level, says Jennifer Lock, PhD’04, professor and associate dean of Teaching & Learning in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.

The Energy Systems of the Future: Clean & Green

alumni — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:17:30 +0000

Hot ’Hoods of the Future

alumni — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:29:58 +0000

Come Together
Forget the monoculture with houses here and shopping and work way over there. “We’ve got land-use policies that were designed for separate uses,” says Gondek.

Walk, E-bike, Hop a Drone

alumni — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:05:22 +0000

Fabiola MacIntyre, BSc (Eng)’03 Manager of Calgary’s largest infrastructure project, the Green Line LRT:

At the helm of a city-shaping project that will add 40 kilometres to Calgary’s existing 59-km LRT system — connecting Keystone Hills and Seton to downtown —MacIntyre points out that, in 50 years, the city will welcome 1 million more people.

The Death of Disease

alumni — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:26:19 +0000

When former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden announced that Project Cancer Moonshot’s goal was to “eliminate cancer as we know it,” he lit a spark of hope around the world — and churned up an ocean of controversy.

The Golden Age of Aging

alumni — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:38:04 +0000

First, the bad news: we are never going to live forever. The good news? We are never going to live forever. That sums up the measured perspective of Dr. David Hogan, the Brenda Strafford Foundation Chair in Geriatric Medicine at UCalgary.