Navigating the Virtual Crime Universe
A partnership between the Calgary Police Service and UCalgary’s cybercrime simulation centre aims to help catch real-life criminals
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Keeping Diet Culture Out of the Classroom
Diet culture is returning with a vengeance. Or maybe it never went away. A team of researchers say making classrooms “weight-neutral” zones could dramatically improve the physical and mental health of kids and teens.
How Physics Pointed the Way to an Unexpected Octopus Discovery Deep in the Ocean
A scientific surprise, decades of work by multinational teams, complicated math and the most educated of guesses led to the discovery of an octopus nursery surviving — against all odds — 3,100 metres under the sea. Rachel Lauer helped create the treasure map that led to the discovery.
At The Summit, Kids Get Mental Health Treatment and Make a Difference
For the first time, Calgary has a designated centre for young people dealing with mental health issues that is removed from the often-traumatic experience that can come with traditional hospitals and emergency rooms. What’s more, the concept was designed by youths themselves.
How the Art of Hand-Press Bookmaking is Promoting Sustainability and Fostering Community
Look inside an unexpected workshop where old processes help drive new methods for sustainable products for the future and where students find community in a sometimes-solitary major
8 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Making the World Better
It doesn’t come without serious ethical and societal concerns, but AI can also be a good thing. Researchers across UCalgary are using it to make informed decisions more quickly and solve complex problems.
Look at this Photograph. It Will Help Fix Your Energy-Leaking Home
Houses can lose heat at an alarming rate, but it’s hard to do anything about something you can’t see. For nearly a decade, high-tech residential heat maps have been making the invisible visible to encourage action.
The Microbiome Era
A fascination with gut health has hit the mainstream with microbiome-friendly everything, from skin care to snacks. Scientists, however, have long explored the community of bacteria that lives inside our bodies. Their research over the past two decades has driven change in how diseases are treated and prevented.
What if Instead of Living with Computers, We Lived in a Computer?
It’s a world where physical spaces and objects interact with technology. The computer is not a phone in your pocket or a screen on your desk. It’s all around you. That world is inevitable and researchers at UCalgary’s Programmable Reality Lab are helping to create it.
The Sex Talk for Everyone
For far too long, people with developmental and intellectual disabilities have been excluded from conversations about love, romance and pleasure. A new initiative crushes an unsexy taboo.
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.