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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.

“Slim” Moorehouse driving World’s Record Team.

People & Places

8 Treasures from Inside the Stampede Archives

Vintage admission tickets, arena deal announcements and the sheet music for Calgary’s very own marching song are all to be found in the century-old archives that preserves a rich history that helped shape our city

Carved and printed bird lino block and kozo fibre from the mulberry tree.

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

Photo of Justine Doll looking at some bee specimens

10 Questions on Pollinators with Justine Doll

What they are, why they are important and how a community science initiative makes it easy for everyone to get involved in helping bees and their pollinator pals.

What’s Your Jam? Comic Books with Jamie Michaels

Academia collides with the colorful universe of comic books to help us understand the world a little better.

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.

Cartoon drawing of microbiome inside human digestive system.

Research & Innovation

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.

Man wearing virtual reality goggles and woman using tablet, old fashioned computer in background.

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.

Watercolor illustration of a mountain lake near Lake Louise Alberta and Charles Zircon.

People & Places

Meet the Mountains in a New Roadside Geology Book for Kids

A geologist hopes people feel “sedimental” after reading her book about Rocky Mountain minerals

Special needs couple lying and using mobile phone

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.

Next-Gen Islam

Many young first- and second-generation Canadian Muslims have an entirely different relationship to their religion than do their parents. A fascinating storytelling project illuminates how spirituality, expectations and community are shifting in this country’s youth-driven Islamic culture