Research & Innovation

Who’s Afraid of Cancer?

Stress, anxiety and depression can leave cancer patients and their loved ones feeling helpless and hopeless. An increasingly valued and urgent discipline, psychosocial oncology is transforming the way people live with cancer

When Nine Million Viewers Learn a Little More About Something Really Complicated

Sometimes, a five-minute animated video is what is needed to break through the information clutter and start our education around mental health. Anees Bahji collaborates with TED-Ed to create those videos, and they’ve reached millions of people.

When Video Games Become the Sophisticated Texts of Higher Learning

We can learn a lot about each other and the rules we live by through how we play them

Rockets, Radio Waves and Risky Satellite Missions: 7 Ways Space Research is Taking Off in Calgary

For decades, space tools have been designed, built and operated by UCalgary’s makers and thinkers

From Waste to Wealth

A student implements a black soldier fly biowaste treatment method in Tanzania that empowers women, and could positively impact human health and the environment

This is Your Brain (and Body) on Alcohol

New low-risk alcohol consumption guidelines are a big change from long-held official recommendations. Nobody’s saying the party is over, but UCalgary experts make a convincing case to slow it down.

When Artificial Intelligence Takes the Wheel

We’ve been hearing about a driverless-vehicle revolution forever and, make no mistake, that world is a-comin’. In the meantime, our engineers are asking, and answering, critical questions that will keep us on a safe road to the future.

How a Flat Sheet of Aluminum Becomes Sustainable 3D Furniture

The secret to strong, sustainable and easy to store furniture is curved-crease folding. The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary is using that technique to furnish revitalized gathering spaces in downtown Calgary.