How high tuition?
A coordinated effort by university students, their parents, faculty, staff and community groups is needed to convince the government that a larger share of the provincial surplus should be directed towards universities.

United Grain Growers invest in internsip program
United Grain Growers is investing $25,000 per year to give fourth-year students practical job experience over a 12-to-16 month period, helping them learn about the corporate world before launching into specific careers.

Learning at home
Home schooling was not an easy decision for Dr. David Hammond, a sessional instructor in the education faculty, and his wife Rosalyn Forest.

Paradigm shift in health sciences: team-centred learning turning heads
A popular and inventive interdisciplinary health sciences course, offered only at the University of Alberta and part of a larger team focus, is quietly gaining attention across Canada.

Chinese medicine honed by thousands of years of clinical trials
When Dr. Larry Wang was growing up in Taiwan, he learned all about Chinese herbal medicine. "As a kid, I liked to go out and play in the rain and the mud and get as dirty as I possibly could," Wang says.

Campaign leader a man of many sides
Dr. Terry Flannigan is regarded by most of his colleagues as thoughtful, reserved, even slightly intimidating at first. Having spearheaded the university’s most successful fund-raising campaign ever without self-congratulation, he’s the kind of manwho knows what he wants and simply gets the job done.

WHO recognizes Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research
Are you living in a "safe community?" If you’re not, you may be before long. Chances are there’s one in its formative stages near you, and now the University of Alberta is host to an organization that will help support and nurture this concept across the province.

Prolific composer one of Alberta's best-loved artists
"Violet Archer has been one of Canada’s most prolific and most performed composers since about 1950," says Dr. Fordyce Pier, chair of the University of Alberta’s music department. "Her music is characterized bygreat craft and an often almost overwhelming intensity and intellectual rigor."

Bringing the world's treasures closer to home
It’s time to let your fingers do the walking and take a cyber-stroll through New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Or perhaps the National Gallery in Ottawa. Or how about sauntering through the fine arts museums in San Francisco, Montreal and Boston?

The Minstrel of Managua
As monsoon rains pounded the capital city, Managua, and electricity flickered on and off, musician and teacher Frank Bessai loaded trucks with beans and rice, powered milk and oil.